Post #12243 by Tiki-bot on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 12:16 PM

Hey, Suicide Sam, you're right: Art Center is a design school (I went there). It's a great school, but very expensive. They do have an "entertainment design" track in the industrial design dept. now so teachers can't yell at you for designing theme park rides like I did when I was there.

The BIG 2 for animation are Cal Arts, like you said, and Sheridan (in Toronto, I think). The movie fx houses recruit a huge number of new animators from there. And, yes, there is a huge glut of animators out there these days. Almost anyone can learn a 3D program, and it seems almost everyone has, so you have to have that little extra something (like a good idea or highly stylized animation) to get noticed.

I thought Wil Vinton only did stop-motion animation, not digital stuff. I still think The PJ's was the greatest show ever (anyone remember that?).

It seems to me that good people always find work, no matter what the market. And if you're not good, work on those ass-kissing, people skills - plenty of people out there without a lick of talent who are working, too.