Vancouver Film School

oXYnary

Anyone know someone who graduated from there thats currently in the industry? Can you ask them to PM or contact me if possible. Need to ask some questions (especially about their modeling focus program).

If you/they are an american citizen, I hope asking about how you financed the cost and living expenses wont be too intrusive?

Zcubed

I know that Kolby Jukes went there. There was a little discussion about VFS on his forum, TWEAK.

oXYnary

Thanks for the thread. It put it in perspective!

Zcubed

Just doing my job, citizen! The general consensus seemed to be

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dont go to vfs just to learn how to model....thats a ridiculous amount of money to pay if thats all you want to learn, there is great resources on the net to learn modeling and this forum being one for starters.
If however you plan to learn more than just how to model and can afford it then why not, aside from the learning experience its a good year and you will make lots of great friends and connections.

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Anyways, good luck on whatever path you decide to take.

Jelmer

I'm studying there right now. Was lucky enough to get in on the old fee. I don't think I wouldn have even thought about going with the current costs for the 3d animation / vfx program. If you have any questions still though, feel free to contact me.

Rwolf

bleh, I'm suppose to be going to VFS in August. Hope it's worth the investment...

ShadowM8

Look at it this way, if you can get down to learning modeling or animation by yourself, on 24/7 basis, reading books, watching dvds and using community for input and knoledge base for a year streight, than don't go to VFS. More likely than not you simply can't do it.
The whole point about going to VFS is to help you create the best reel you can, while providing the best possible support and resource structure and do it in just one year. You can come in with established skillset or a total noob the end result is still the same, it all depends how much you can take out away with you in a year. The only question is, is it worht the financial burden, but it has nothing to do with the validity of the program itself.

Jelmer

I don't agree with the statement of the end result beeing the same. This week another 2 vfs modeling reels were up on the frontpage of cgtalk for instance. These are 2 out of a class that had 9 modelers. VFS can help you reveal your talents but not give them to you, it's not a magic bullet. I'm sure though that if you can compensate a 'lack of talent' with hard work, and end up with a good reel.

John Warner

i went to vfs. my personal opinion is that the environment that you get put in in terms of the other students is one of the only major factors. it depends on your level of skill however. it's hard to say. after going to vfs i wanted to go back and kick myself in the ass because i felt that going there wasn't even really nessisary in a lot of ways. but i suppose to explain the difference to someone that doesn't yet understand is maybe pointless, who knows.

get reference. match reference. don't do it on a pathetic large scale. zoom RIGHT in and spend 2 hours on the lips if you ahve to. it's this level of perfection that the school environment will push you towards. it's impossible to think that what you're doing is good when everyone else is owning you. if you can just do that on your own... if you can NOT get excited when you do something you deem as good, then it's JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION that school might not be nessisary.

but who knows. there might be something that i'm not considering. technique can limit you too i guess -?