<p>I'm hearing good and bad things about the Savannah college of the arts..whats up with that? people keep saying although it's accredited by a regional accreditation board, it's not NASAD(a national accreditation board)- accredited and therefore has a not so good repuation in industry. Is that true?</p>
<p>i know you're relating pixar to the idea of commericalized animation.. and using that as a metaphor for usc.. but you do realize majority of the people at pixar went to calarts, right?</p>
<p>anyway, as a student there, i want to just comment on the "too liberal" comments.. such as professors going nude. </p>
<p>i've never seen it, and im pretty sure the school got rid of the clothing optional rule. there has been complaints that its getting too conservative.. but in all honesty.. maybe just clothing wise, because art wise it feels pretty experimental and unique, which is what its known for.. you can do commerical stuff [ a good friend of mine just graduated film/video and does big hollywood films as a cameraman / cinematography/DP .. which is pretty mainstream ] or stuff like gomez pena, which is the complete other end.. so its open ended and thats why its known as experimental.. because within your field they'll help you go to which ever direction you want. which is amazing.</p>
<p>ive seen some pretty unique stuff that can only be tailored to specific audiences.. but ive also seen some mainstream beautiful stuff. [ a good metaphor would be my roommate-musician, who ive seen preform very classical brass pieces, but then also very experimental improv. ]</p>
<p>I don't quite understand how it's relevant where Pixar folk went to school, in relation to my metaphor, though certainly there's no harm in looking at the work produced by alumni when choosing a school. If it sounded as though I was saying that going to a particular school locks you into doing only a particular type of work when you graduate, then I should rephrase, though I don't believe I said anything about the impact of schooling on later work. </p>
<p>Would it be more helpful to look at the Fassbinder/Scorsese example? I was trying to illustrate the difference in culture and sensibility between CalArts and USC. We can use the term atmosphere, if that would help? Somebody who finds one very attractive is not terribly likely to find the other equally attractive, though of course, it is not possible to predict how any particular individual may react. </p>
<p>I think you may be conflating my comment about being mortified by professorial nudity with somebody else's comment about CalArts being "too liberal". I don't know who said it was too liberal, or to what that person was referring (political atmosphere? curriculum? admission policy?) so I can't really address that.</p>