Need help with choosing animation/game art & design school

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<p>HI EVERYONE! I am 19 years old living in texas and am having trouble finding the right animation school for me. </p>

<p>Starting out, cost was my first priority. Meaning i wanted to find a low cost art school! Later, i realized that was not going to happen and now, I am just looking for a school that looks good.</p>

<p>I cannot find one animation school that has not been called a money making college. This is REALLY depressing because i spend hours on end searching school after school and none of the students going there seem to be satisfied.</p>

<p>For the most part i just want several students giving me their insight and directing it towards me and I thought this would be the best place to do it. </p>

<p>I am motivated to learn animation so there is no problem there. So if there is anyone on these discussion boards enrolled in an art school, i would appreciate insights as to what i should be looking for aswell as what you think of your current school.</p>

<p>Thanks,
AA</p>

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<p>Is there anyone in this field that can help me?</p>

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<p>I know someone who is going to Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California and I think he is happy there. Is this one of the schools that you were getting bad comments about?</p>

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<p>actually i havent heard of that school but i will research it now thanks!</p>

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<p>Not sure if any of these schools have what you are looking for but maybe check out Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt and the School of Visual Arts. Also, check into BU (Center for Digital Imaging) Canisus College (Digital Media Arts Program) and Montclair State (Department of Art&Design). Hope this helps. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>BTW, the guy I know who goes to Cogswell did two years at community college first to save money.</p>

<p>If you want to go to a larger, more typical university that has a Digital Arts major, you should consider Chapman University in LA.</p>

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<p>I don't know anything about this major, but I was looking around for you on the internet and Ringling College of Art and Design has some teachers with pretty impressive credentials. Seems like they might be worth investigating.</p>

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<p>I second Ringling. We know someone who graduated from there and loves it. Now works for the Disney organization. You may also want to look into University of the Arts and School of Visual Arts.</p>

<p>You also may want to broaden your search to include low-cost public universities which have special programs in animation / design.</p>

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<p>University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana is known for arts, animation and has a superb reputation for gaming and game animation. Also top computer school. Lots of stuff in animation crossing over into engineering. You can actually drive home to Texas from Champaign in a day.</p>

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<p>Check out the excellent Expression Center for New Media in
Emeryville, CA., which is right next door to Berkeley and
the home city for Pixar</p>

<p>Expression</a> College for Digital Arts is a digital arts college</p>

<p>While a dedicated, for-profit institution, it has a pretty good career center,
but better still are the facilities and the teaching staff. There are only four majors at the school - Animation, Sound, Graphics and Game Design.</p>

<p>I'm not affiliated with the school, but live in the area and know students who has attended.</p>

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<p>School</a> of Communication at Northwestern University :: School of Communication :: Animate Arts</p>

<p>"The program's flagship course is a new introductory sequence in which students are introduced to 2D and 3D design and visual literacy, music theory, sound processing, and narrative theory, as well as computer science and cognitive science. A primary focus of this sequence is to provide students with multiple opportunities to actively integrate various art forms with technology in the development of creative projects. Our goal is to create a community of creative thinkers and makers that transcends cultural barriers between and among disciplines."</p>

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<p>I feel the need to mention SCAD... I go there currently, the Atlanta campus, but am transferring. I'm majoring in painting which isn't a hugely popular major here, but i bet you'd fit right in with animation and game design. It is definitely a wonderful school for some people, and i bet i would have been at least a little happier in Savannah. PM me if you want more info.</p>

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<p>I was looking into this for my daughter. Check out the following schools:
* California Institute of the Art (CALARTS)
* UCLA
* USC
* RIT (Film and animation department)
* University of Cincinnati has two related programs: animation and digital design.
* SVA
* SCAD
* Ringling</p>

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<p>check out the university of Pennsylvania's Digital Media Design (DMD) program. Fantastic financial aid available too.</p>

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<p>Yes, Univ of Penn does have a digital media program BUT it is very engineering oriented. It is a combination between engineering, art, and computers. You need to take some higher level math etc.</p>

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<p>From someone who is currently at Cogswell. (first post)</p>

<p>If you go to Cogswell, make sure to be the kind of student that goes “All Out” as a student. Study HARD, PRACTICE your art (sketching & photoshop) and LEARN MAYA like the back of your hand and really pursue your dreams. The teachers will totally help you out. Classes are small to medium in size (6-12) and you can get a lot of individualized attention.</p>

<p>If you come here, PLEASE don’t do like some idiot students who **** their time away playing Magic the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons or Pool or Minecraft. instead DRAW, DRAW, DRAW!!!</p>

<p>I’ve seen so many students here waste their time here playing video games or being lazy ass noobs and then they get mad because they suck at life and fail their classes.</p>

<p>duh - if you’re a NOOB with a little bit of talent, you still need to practice right?</p>

<p>Anyway, not all the students are morons. Some are ok and then there are students who are AMAZING. Why are they amazing? because they are here for one thing and that is to get better at their art and try to land a job in the industry.</p>

<p>Two such students (who are my friends) have nice art examples on their tumblr pages. [KFortune</a> Art: April 2013](<a href=“http://kfortuneart.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.html]KFortune”>http://kfortuneart.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.html) and <a href=“http://perezfrankie.■■■■■■■■■■%5B/url%5D”>http://perezfrankie.■■■■■■■■■■</a></p>

<p>their official cogswell tumblr is kinda lame here it is anyway <a href=“http://cogswellcollege.■■■■■■■■■■%5B/url%5D”>http://cogswellcollege.■■■■■■■■■■</a></p>

<p>I’m won’t give you a link to my art because I’m not that good (still working on it) and I don’t want people knowing who I am.</p>

<p>btw, expressions is a cool school, but they are more expensive and they don’t have the same accreditation as Cogswell (look it up).</p>

<p>what sucks about Cogswell being accredited is that you have to take all these General Education courses to get the degree. And they only let you take like 3 classes outside of the college after you enroll. </p>

<p>So, if you will be a transfer student, download their catalog and take all the classes you need for the degree. <a href=“http://www.cogswell.edu/pdf/Cogswell_Catalog_2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cogswell.edu/pdf/Cogswell_Catalog_2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you’re coming as a freshman, it makes sense to just do all of your general ed here but don’t be surprised when you have to pay full price for a physics class.</p>

<p>Last thing I’ll say is that Cogswell is pretty easy to get into (unlike CalArts for example) but not everybody makes it out. I have a few friends that started the same year I did but they couldn’t hang with the courses and they dropped out.</p>

<p>But I also met some people that went on to work at DreamWorks, Rhythm and Hues (now bankrupt!) and Disney Animation.</p>

<p>oh, and if you go, the first thing you’ll hear about is projectX. It’s like a slave labor 3D animation class but pretty much everybody that goes through it finds a job straight out of college. That’s what I’m going for.</p>

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<p>p.s. there’s no chicks at this school. unless you like girls that wear fluffy tails and cat ears. The ratio is like 10 dudes to every girl</p>

<p>so yeah, don’t come here for chicks</p>

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<p>Rochester Institute of Technology - specifically the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
[RIT:</a> College of Imaging Arts & Sciences](<a href=“http://cias.rit.edu/]RIT:”>http://cias.rit.edu/)</p>

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<p>CalArts</p>

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<p>I am hoping that the OP found a school by 2008</p>