I took a bunch of community college classes over the years. They can be really solid. At a certain point, for some material, you can run out of stuff to learn. It depends a lot on where you're at. The good thing about easy college classes is that you can draw in class. Right now what I personally worry about is that kids…
I was going to make a huge post about generalizations, but I decided against it. I'm just gonna say that it upsets me that people says that art is easy or in your terms, "chilled out". Especially the kids who are in Programming with a game concentration who are taking their art gen eds and put minimum effort into their…
There is a lot of discussion about college educations and that wasn't really my point. A lot of the smartest people I know are college drop-outs. I conflated coders and business people together in the original post because it was easy, and it would take several pages to suss out the exact details of how and why these…
obviously a minor point given the thrust of this thread but this kind of sweeping generalization reminds me of another recent thread about programmers. its weird. programmers are not a different breed of people. you don't need autism to do it, don't need advanced degrees, don't need to fret about relaxed grammar any more…
Yeah, I forgot to mention the cost as well. Game Art specific degrees can cost you like 4-20x as much as say, going to a local community college, or even a local state school. I know some people going to video game school right now that will have student loan debt higher than the mortgage on my house. Hehe yeah, knowing…
Degrees are a method for measuring someone's qualifications in a given field. If getting a job is 90% dependent on a resume, as it is for most mid-high income jobs, a degree is probably mandatory. This concept doesn't apply as much to artists however because we can show our portfolios. A doctor can't line up a group of…
Yeah my personal experience has been different (and severely limited), but I certainly agree that regardless of where you're at, education is important. It's true that where I'm at right now (bottom of the totem pole) I have to do a lot of stuff outside of my job description to help save the ship from sinking (or…
Ew, completely disagreeing with the bulk of your message. I'm not a mathematician, nor a programmer. These things are not relevant to my life or my job. Coming from a fine arts background, though, what IS incredibly relevant to me as an artist in games is my broad traditional art and art history background that helps shape…
I'm not a great artist by any means, and I wouldn't consider myself "in the industry" yet....but the job I have now is tangentially related to what I hope to do one day. Of the tasks I do on a daily basis, perhaps 20-30% of them are associated with what I learned in school. The rest are things I've had to learn myself, as…
@oXYnary I studied at a community college in the DC area and Corcoran School of Art for two years combined after that VFS in Canada. I have known people from mica, art institute, emily carr and a few other places I cant recall. I focused mainly on foundation in my first two years and that really saved me when I came to…