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My old Maya instructor, Peter Weishar, is now (or was) the " Dean of
the School of Film and Digital Media" at Savannah College of Art and
Design. I don't know much about their program but I have nothing but
respect for Peter. So it may be worth looking at.
Peter taught me Power Animator and Maya back at NYU's tisch school of
the arts in the late 90s. However I can't really speak as to the
current state of Tisch's computer animation program. I simply don't
know if they've pulled off a good transition. Back then, they were just
starting out. And animation was not my focus at all. Live action film
was my focus. The animation stuff with Peter was an interesting
diversion at the time.
However I am currently finishing off my masters at a Graduate program at
NYU (I just can't get enough of the place!) in a different program:
CADA (Center for Advanced Digital Applications) or whatever we call it
now... its had a name change this year I think.
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/departments/department.jsp?deptId=9
I've found it to be what you make of it (thats probably true of all 3d
academic programs at this point). If you expect the program to teach
you what you need to know on its own, you are in trouble. If you intend
to push yourself and use the program as a great environment to make it
happen, you're in a good spot. The adjunct factulty in the new york
area is a great resource since they're usually in the thick of it. And
in the last year or so we've had an influx of adjunct faculty from
Bluesky studios, which has been very useful to a lot of my classmates.
If Todd Akita is lurking on this thread he might be able to give you his
impression of the program as he's spent some time this week looking at
thesis work (as I understand it... I've not been in the past few days
but I hear rumors... ok actually my friend was bragging to me that Todd
is on his thesis panel review).
-brad
ALTRDVISON@(protected) wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good school in the States
> for Animation/Modeling/Texture as well as Game Design?
> Anyone go to Fullsail>?
> Any schools to/not to attend>?
>
> I appreciate it.
>
> Jon
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My old Maya instructor, Peter Weishar, is now (or was) the " Dean of
the School of Film and Digital Media" at Savannah College of Art and
Design. I don't know much about their program but I have nothing but
respect for Peter. So it may be worth looking at.<br>
<br>
Peter taught me Power Animator and Maya back at NYU's tisch school of
the arts in the late 90s. However I can't really speak as to the
current state of Tisch's computer animation program. I simply don't
know if they've pulled off a good transition. Back then, they were
just starting out. And animation was not my focus at all. Live action
film was my focus. The animation stuff with Peter was an interesting
diversion at the time.<br>
<br>
However I am currently finishing off my masters at a Graduate program
at NYU (I just can't get enough of the place!) in a different program:
CADA (Center for Advanced Digital Applications) or whatever we call it
now... its had a name change this year I think.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scps.nyu.edu/departments
/department.jsp?deptId=9">http://www.scps.nyu.edu/departments/department.jsp
?deptId=9</a><br>
<br>
I've found it to be what you make of it (thats probably true of all 3d
academic programs at this point). If you expect the program to teach
you what you need to know on its own, you are in trouble. If you
intend to push yourself and use the program as a great environment to
make it happen, you're in a good spot. The adjunct factulty in the new
york area is a great resource since they're usually in the thick of
it. And in the last year or so we've had an influx of adjunct faculty
from Bluesky studios, which has been very useful to a lot of my
classmates.<br>
<br>
If Todd Akita is lurking on this thread he might be able to give you
his impression of the program as he's spent some time this week looking
at thesis work (as I understand it... I've not been in the past few
days but I hear rumors... ok actually my friend was bragging to me that
Todd is on his thesis panel review).<br>
<br>
-brad<br>
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Any schools to/not to attend>?</div>
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