Post #12145 by suicide_sam on Mon, Oct 28, 2002 4:04 PM

hey MrTikiBar, depends on what kind of animation he wants to get into. Pretty much after high school he'll have to go either to an art school or a school with a good art program. I really only know about Cali schools, the good art schools in Cali are Art Center, Otis, and Cal Arts (I think Art Center is mostly a design school though, Cal Arts was founded by Disney to produce animators). A non art school with a good art department is Long Beach State (this is the school that produced Shag). If he wants to get into 3D the basic programs to know are 3D Max or Maya. 3d Max is really easy to learn. If he does the first 8 tutorials he'll know enough to do mostly anything he wants to do on it, but Maya is whats mostly used for film these days.

Actually getting a job after college, usually will mean doing a free internship somewhere for awhile until he gets hired on full time. The job market for 3d animators is really saturated right now, though. Allot of people are working less and making less money just because of how many 3d animators there are out there.