 | | | schools? | schools? 2005-05-05 - By Brad Friedman
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Honestly, I don't get it either. Your point is one of the arguments
Erol and I used to convince people to take intro to XSI :) Though I do
understand why schools like to teach Maya. As you said, there is a glut
of maya users... which means a glut of potential instructors as well.
And the wealth of training materials (good and bad) just makes it an
easy program to run from an administrative point of view (its almost a
no brainer). If you compare that to putting up an XSI program right
now: qualified instructors are more likely to be too busy working to
teach. Training materials are available but not nearly as abundant.
Result: its harder to put together a good solid XSI curriculum and staff
IMHO. But as you said, the market forces are such that students should
be clamoring to take XSI and that should force the issue... but they're not.
Perhaps I should be happy? It'll be easier to pay off my student loans?
O:-)
-brad
takita@(protected) wrote:
>While I can understand the logic of students wanting to learn a package
because "everyone else is using it" there seems to be a pretty big glut of maya
users, especially at the entry level end of the spectrum - and given the fact
that nobody I know who uses xsi seems to remain out of work for very long, I
often wonder why a lot of these students don't bother learning a package that
quite a lot of the shops in New York happen to be using (unless they're not
planning on staying in New York, which might be possible).
>
>Hmm.
>
>-T
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>From: Brad Friedman <xsibrad@(protected)>
>Sent: May 4, 2005 7:54 PM
>To: XSI@(protected)
>Subject: Re: schools?
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>BTW, another note on topic: I forgot to mention... the NYU grad program
>is a little weak on the XSI side of things. Phill (I know you are
>lurking here too Phill) Avanzato teaches the intro to XSI class. And he
>does a damn good job of cramming as much XSI knowledge as humanly
>possible into a single class... because: the next class in the
>progression, advanced XSI, never runs due to lack of interest (not
>enough students register for it). Phill's class is great but it is an
>intro class and its only one semester long. And I'd think you'd want to
>be able to move forward past intro. Its definitely a Maya school.
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