Need some animation school advice

College Majors Visual Arts and Film Majors
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<p>Hello, I'm a highschool senior who's been accepted to SCAD, Pratt, RISD, and I'm on the short waitlist for experimental animation at Calarts.</p>

<p>Now here's where I differ than most animation students, I LIKE experimental animation, because I've had a lot of foundation in animation already and understand that drawing is something you have to master and have control of before you can really get into the acting, performance and magic that becomes animation, and that's something that hasn't been fully fleshed out in much experimental work past the most mainstream experimental work.</p>

<p>Basically what I'm asking is a number of things.</p>

<p>1) What's the short waitlist for calarts like? Do I really have a shot at all at getting in? I'm not holding my breath but it's still my number 1 at this point.</p>

<p>2) I want a school that has strong fundamentals and still a decent traditional animation program to teach some of the magic while giving me the freedom to work in experimental, independent ways.</p>

<p>3) I also want a school that will make me both commercially and independently viable, has a decent way of getting me "out there". I'm a rather out going and hardworking person so this shouldn't be too hard but I want a school that will help and not hinder.</p>

<p>Sorry if I seem a bit... intense about all this, I just really love animation and want to become the best artist I can! Also I didn't hear about ringling until after the application was due and just from reading the site I don't feel it was a right fit for me anyways.</p>

<p>So thoughts? Opinions? Advice? I just love hearing from other people and their takes on things.</p>

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<p>can you afford to put down deposit elsewhere and sit on it just in case waitlist comes thru?
keep feeding your enthusiasm to CalArts asking updates, sending new works, final grades, awards, anything.
I read a book about two guys named Joe worked for Disney and it was CalArts had been, but made me wanted to go there.
Since it is a school with actors and writers and such, you might gain more from going to art-art schools. someone have to write a story and model and filmed as a character even eventually to be digitalized. I don’t know how it actually works but facilities and teaching had to be more accommodating to experimenting interdisciplinary everything, which RISD is not so good at.
when we took tour of RISD, only this one international girl from India royal family or something wanted to see animation. her mom said she had to leave for other “appointment” and “secretary would accompany my daughter from here on” since we were small group, we all went along with them. the guide was a photo major and could not answer much questions the girl asked. the secretary just stood back.
It was bit sad old-sh building and not much going on in there compare to other part of RISD.
since that family guy is the alum, kids might think it is a place to go, or just that the school is plain famous enuff to attract international royalty.
I am not animation people and biased toward RISD. it is just what I saw.
SCAD and Pratt I don’t know how good or not their animation is.</p>