They have a very high rate of students that get employed out of there. The course I'm on is a brand new one called "Animation and VFX" but it seems to be more of an Unreal Generalist program so far. Their Game Artist program didn't get approved by the Swedish Education Board for next year...
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I've always considered it part of my job as an artist to educate myself in the ways of "not getting screwed over". While I do think he's a jerk, I'm not holding anything against him. The kid just educated thousands, and thousands of young artists and burnt more bridges than he could've imagined. I'm not about to argue with…
This is the type of work I'd expect to see in the first couple of weeks of your education at that university, definitely NOT the final year (what have you been doing?). Another reason why education (a piece of paper, really) doesn't mean much... You've got a ton of great advice already so I won't say anything on that front.
The industry does not actively avoid graduates. At least half of the people I know in the industry have some kind of university level education. Everything from trained architects to people with degrees in English literature. So secondary education is not useless. But it's not the thing that will determine if you get a…
Autodesk are now giving their products away for free to teachers, secondary, college, and university students: http://news.autodesk.com/press-release/autodesk-consumer-group-and-education/autodesk-makes-design-software-free-schools-worl Seems to be pretty much everything including Max, Maya/LT, Mudbox and a ton of other…
This is not true. Why? Because most major software developers now offer trial and/or educational versions of their major packages. It doesn't even matter if these versions are feature-complete. The sheer depth of this software makes an educational version more than adequate for learning purposes. And these educational…