Anyone ever gone to art college?

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:24 pm

Ahhh, I wanted to go to Russia for a semester or so to get a good grounding in art and piano (my piano teacher was Russian, and always spoke about the many artsy things available there). However, I decided to continue learning French instead of starting Russian from scratch.

Maybe I can still go for 3 weeks next summer if I can convince my college that it's worthwhile for them to pay for it all

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Ruxen · Post by **Ruxen** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:19 pm

christwriter wrote: Actually, the cirriculum for Media Arts and Animation seems to be geared more towards 3d computer animation than Fine Arts. Some of the later quarters had classes in Storytelling and Storyboarding, doing 2d animation, Color Theory, Introduction to Microsoft and Macintosh (which, mercifully, you can place out of) and a few others. The earliest classes are mostly work for drawing, which might have the problem of overly critical teachers (I have a low opinion of anyone who critises someone's work on the basis of style and content instead of skill and asthetical pleasure)

I'm defenately going to work towards this, now.

*goes to re-read the course discription*

CW

Media Arts is a very good program too! It was was I was thinking of falling back on if I didn't get into Illustration. Good luck CW!

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:29 pm

Anyone know if there are any graduate programs or similar things out there that cater to the comic minded of us?

'Cause, you know, I have my BA. It's in Anthropology...but grad school could be cool.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:48 am

Uh, no, I didn't go to art college. I'll be passing an exam "Computer graphics" soon, tho.

Van Douchebag · Post by **Van Douchebag** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:17 am

I'm currently enrolled in my first year in Fine Arts at the Champlain College in Lennoxville, Quebec.
The course is pretty fun because it's not really work.

BeefotronX · Post by **BeefotronX** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:34 pm

I haven't been around for a few weeks, because I've been busy going to college. I'm currently in Southern Adventist University (in TN) majoring in Character Animation. So, yes, I'm doing that. I need to find some more things to say...

Steve Bryant · Post by **Steve Bryant** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:11 pm

Aside from some junior college art classes, I'm entirely self-taught. And that's one of my biggest regrets. Unfortunately, my instructors were of the mindset of "draw what you see," rather than "understand the underlying structure of what you see that you are able to accurately draw what you see."

Big difference.

So that teaching mindset soured me on a lot of formal art education and led me to a ton of self studying. I wince when I think how much further along I could be had I sought out some other instruction.

It seems to me that an art school education is a combination of two elements: (1) what the instructors bring to the table, and (2) what you are willing to put into it.

Ultimately, it comes down to this: no matter what the instructors teach you, it's up to you to absorb that knowledge and apply it. I've seen some absolute crap come from graduates of SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design), the Kubert School, various Art Institutes, etc... Just because a school is fantastic does not guarantee that all of its graduates are.

Regardless of where you go or don't go, the burden of learning and applying is on you. So take control and kick some butt!

--Steve

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:49 pm

Mr.Bob wrote:I just started one! (Fees are the same as any other college)

Interesting, which school? I just started at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

I'm aiming for a bachelor's in animation. Getting in is a bitch (here in Holland) the acceptance rate is 1 in 20. But at least it's very affordable.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:22 pm

Odd! Where've you been hiding?

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:05 pm

Well, I'm going ahead with it. I've gotten an application in the mail, taken care of the personal interview part of it over the phone...now all I need to do is develop a portfolio and send it in (required).

Wow...animation is a more popular feild than I thought.

CW

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 5:32 pm

*Gasp* Odd1 has returned!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:51 pm

But her comic is still on old update, I see.

Apatheticus · Post by **Apatheticus** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 7:25 pm

I would recommend doing research for any school you intend to go to above and beyond the stuff the school tells you. I applied to the Columbus College of Art and Design, got in, went, and was told during orientation that I should get ready for a year of pure insanity since CCAD has the second-highest freshman workload of any college or university in the US-- that's second to Yale. That little fact wasn't in any of the pamphlets, I assure you.

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:59 am

mcDuff! wrote:Odd! Where've you been hiding?

In my computerless apartment, where I run my cellphone bill up insanely.

TOXIC! wrote:*Gasp* Odd1 has returned!

Well, sorta.

mcDuff! wrote:But her comic is still on old update, I see.

No comment.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:46 am

apatheticus wrote:I would recommend doing research for any school you intend to go to above and beyond the stuff the school tells you. I applied to the Columbus College of Art and Design, got in, went, and was told during orientation that I should get ready for a year of pure insanity since CCAD has the second-highest freshman workload of any college or university in the US-- that's second to Yale. That little fact wasn't in any of the pamphlets, I assure you.

How'd you suggest doing that? I did a quickie search last night that turned into a two-hour-long google marathon because there wasn't enough to find to satisfy me. Losts of promotional information, a few ranking sites (that ranked it pretty positively) one negative news story and one negative student review (and no positive ones but that could have been a fluke.)

Is there anywhere you could suggest for getting that info?

CW