<p>name great art schools like cal arts(that offer digital animation/film/music) in the california or new york area.</p>
<p>there is no other school like cal arts</p>
<p>Yeah, no other school costs as much. (RISD matches CalArts' good reputation and low acceptance rate, though.)</p>
<p>I don't about music other than Julliard, but I possibly can with film and animation. Schools I can think of with those (either one or both) are...</p>
<p>San Francisco Art Institute (I think that's the name of it)
Academy of Art University
School of Visual Arts
Pratt Institute
UCLA
Otis
Art Center</p>
<p>I hope that helps.</p>
<p>thanks a lot..it seems like art center doesnt offer anything but 3d animation and fil production. like it doesnt offer music or dance classes...oh btw i am looking for pretty small schools...so prob not UCLA but i will look into the others...</p>
<p>do you know of any great ones in new jersey and boston/cambridge?</p>
<p>There's aren't any schools in the NJ area like that (I live in NJ). The closest school that offers Animation is SVA (but SVA's kind of ew and it's not a very small school, not to mention it's in Manhattan I think). Boston has a school called Boston Museum of Art (I forgot the school's exact title) that isn't too bad and a moderate size.</p>
<p>You could always check out RISD in Providence, Rhode Island (which is an hour away from Boston, 3 hours away from NYC).</p>
<p>RISD only offers design stuff as well. I would lik eto focus in design but I also love producing music(singing and composition) and dancing....i guess i'll apply to USC as well and see what happens....if you guys can think of other good schools that offer film production/animation,, dance- besides cal arts and USC- please let me know.</p>
<p>NYU and Chapman for film</p>
<p>RISD has more than design, it has a very good Animation program. Likewise, RIT has a very good film and animation program and I know they do a lot of collaboration with Eastman School of Music.</p>
<p>RIT and NYU seem really good...</p>
<p>how stingy are art schools with aid?</p>
<p>NYU is stingy unless you're top 5% of your class and have a 2400 SAT</p>
<p>The offer from RIT seemed fairly generous - but I can only compare with Duke and CalArts. They offered a merit scholarship that covered about 65% of the cost - that was for an ACT of 30, GPA 3.9 and class rank of 15%. One other piece of information for RIT - the Film and Animation program is the hardest program to get into at RIT. Its students have the highest standardized test scores and GPA in the school - even over the engineering programs. I guess this is mostly because of the limited number of slots and popularity of the program.</p>
<p>guys i should have mentioned I am an undergraduate engineering student(graduating next spring). I'm mainly looking into MFA programs in film and animation, at schools that offer music/dance courses..i know cal arts,USC and RIT meet all those criteria...and luckily all these MFA programs in animation only require a strong art portfolio and any undergraduate degree...another thing is MFA programs take 2-3 years...in fact I think I only will be applying to MFA programs</p>
<p>I am not familiar with RIT but the cultures of CalArts and USC could hardly be more different. I remember being mortified at the professors at CalArts swimming nude in the pool. I can almost promise you will never see such things at USC. I believe the cultural differences are reflected in their programs as well. At CalArts, commercial is bad, at USC, it's good. It goes without saying that your own choices and interests will inform your experience, but I imagine that for most people one or the other would pretty clearly be the better fit.</p>
<p>when you say 'commercial is bad' do you mean they encourage students to be original and unique? cal arts is definitely my first choice school. I love everything about the place..</p>
<p>have you already ruled out UCLA..?</p>
<p>yeah..sort of.. I am primarily looking into small arts schools. I did pick USC though because it has an excellent reputation in film and animation...and also offers performing arts courses...it is also a bit smaller than UCLA.</p>
<p>USC is smaller than UCLA in what sense?</p>
<p>Re: CalArts vs USC -- certainly USC doesn't encourage students to be formulaic and trite, but I think there's a really different aesthetic. This is a very broad generalization, but just to give you a sense of it, I'm guessing that CalArts students would be into Fassbinder, and USC students into Scorsese. Does that analogy make sense to you? I'm trying to think of an animation-related example -- maybe CalArts is to USC as Svankmajer is to Pixar? Pixar makes very charming and I think quite vibrant, original works, with a clear voice, great storytelling, and so forth, but the difference in sensibility is enormous.</p>
<p>you know what? they actually have about the same student population.but they're very demanding- they expect students to have a lot of experience(they lst a whole bucnh of things on their MFA website that they expect from applicants)..whereas schools like cal arts really encourage students from all disciplines to apply. All i have at this point is a figure drawing portfolio, and although I will be taking a couple of art and animation courses before applying, I don't think I'm what they're looking for(talking about UCLA)</p>