What college major(s) should I take!?

College Majors Visual Arts and Film Majors
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I am looking to hopefully one day become an animation producer.

Currently the software I work with is Toon Boom Harmony, Blackmagic Fusion, Blackmagic Davinci Resolve, Avid Pro Tools, and Reaper. (And in the future, when money allows, I plan to add Autodesk Maya into the mix.)

My main interest is in cartoons, Cardboard cut-out style, traditional, tradigital, etc… really anything that’s purely cartoons with no live-action aspect.

Tomorrow, I go in to schedule my college classes, and very stupidly, I have not done all too much research on what I should major in to bring out the best of my abilities for this field.

I am currently thinking of majoring in Animation (Liberal Arts), minoring in mathematics, and possibly taking a buisness managment class or something like that.

What I would like to know is, as someone who has a strong passion for animation and yearns to someday produce his own television quality cartoons, what to you would be the best major/classes to take in college to help further me to my goal? TIA.

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What college are you attending?

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Just my local community college for right now

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What are your long term educational goals? Are you planning to transfer to an art school in 2 years or a university program? What degree - BA? BFA? BS?

Once you figure that out, you can choose among your CC courses with more direction.

Keep in mind that not all credits from a CC transfer - most of them probably will if you are planning to attend one of your state un’s, but not all of those have animation as a major.