Quality of education can vary heavily. Being taught obsolete workflows by someone who hasn't worked in the industry since PlayStation one days can be detrimental. I completely agree that the real work is done outside of the classroom and you will constantly have to supplement your education. Good luck!
It's not weird that they are sending you personal letters to arrange discussing you attending the school. It's their job to sell their education to people, it's how they make money.
Hi guys! While I am investigating my opportunities to study game design, I’we found one 3d artist school. I've visited their open day and actually it was very impressive. They seem to look professional, they said their former students worked on Padington, Avatar, Harry Potter etc... But something seems very strange to me.…
I just had experience with free education so far, where you have to fight to get any information about applying. So that is why it seemed so strange for me, that they are so willing to communicate.
Thanks for your replies! I definitely will not apply untill I didn’t research it properly. I just try to understand is this normal for payed education or not. In any case, I am still not so rich, to apply for such an expensive school.
Thank you for your replies!!! I already have a master degree in classical art, and my opinion about art education is the same, as you guys just wrote above. My ex teacher of drawing in Hungary was hoping that somewhere abroad the situation is different, and the education is up to date and not some kind of fake thing as we…
On the flip side, my experience at community college was not great. Trying to maintain funding by adding bloat to art degrees. Having crap like "history of video games" for two semester so the school can prove youre achieving some sort of academic education... Utterly ridiculous at times. This is speaking as an American.…