My school has a few interactive classes in my animation department. They are all flash. Flash is good to learn. Lots of freelance work to do with flash. Its also quite capable for quickly animating stuff. UnrealEd is good to learn to. Sucks your school stopped offering it, but these things happen. Go buy UT3 or roboblitz…
You should be fucking furious, and tell your dean to either fix the fucking program, or he can shove a fucking erator up his asshole. If you're going for the core pc & console games industry, then *fuck* flash. You need the engine experience, and that's something Flash isn't going to offer. (Though it does assist scripting…
It's crap like this that makes me thankful I bought a house instead of pissing my money away at school. Of course now there are much better options available...now... I would be pissed, you signed up for one thing, PAID for one thing and now the rug is being pulled out from under you. I would leave and find a quality…
Coming from someone who graduated at AI San Diego and got a solid gig in the industry before I graduated. Yes. You should be mad. Prototyping was never about a protfolio piece regardless of what they may tell you. What it did do well was to teach you about a game pipe line. However UE is a very watered down verson of your…