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May 1st, 2008, 06:17 PM
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Computer animation and game art schools
My son is interested in going to college for computer animation and game art. Any good ways to find colleges for these or does anyone have any recommendations, better yet is there anyone in the business that could shed some light on this?
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May 1st, 2008, 07:44 PM
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Are you going to do the work for your son, as you've done by posting in his stead? It makes a difference in the schools one might recommend.
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May 1st, 2008, 07:53 PM
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@OP, get your kid up off his arse, see how he posts, and then judge him, ... he's only lazy, coz he's let ... ;P)
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May 1st, 2008, 08:01 PM
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I know Academy of Art
This is assuming your lad wishes to get into the artistic aspect, far different than the programming aspect, of gaming design. If you notice most popular modern games literally have hundreds of people involved in the end to end creation there are a lot of jobs there in a lot of different niches. Other than that I echo the above two sentiments. Perhaps if we had your offspring to quiz personally on the matter we might be able to discern his actual wishes of pursuit..
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May 1st, 2008, 08:03 PM
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gotta agree, OP, get your kid to do his own homework.
He needs, if he actually has any drive and talent, to get a fine arts degree. First. Every kid on the planet wants to play games and thinks that doing art and animation for games is going to be the way to get paid for it. The reality is that since every kid wants to do it, the vendors demand and hire only the best and pay diddly squat. If your kid is not the best, or second best artist in a college class of 500 or so, its not going to happen.
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May 1st, 2008, 08:10 PM
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I might add that I also knew a game tester for Sony. Playing games is not all fun and games. When a release is coming out they'd put in 60-70 hour weeks. Playing games. What fun!
As for the developers of the games ... the same thing except they're paid a bit better than the testers and work a bit harder all the time. It's not an easy gig.
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