This is a pretty sore subject for me, because it's true schools lie and don't deliver. But what makes it worse is that this person is lazy, which makes it harder to comment on this since I have had to deal with too many students like this when I was a Teaching Assistant. They would show up to class did the minimum poorly…
There are a few of us here at Polycount that went to that school. His portfolio is a pretty clear example of the type of class assignments that were handed out there. Someone forgot to tell him that going to class and doing the assignments does not equal job. All the 3d stuff I made in my classes was pretty crappy, but I…
I didn't compare them at all, I just gave two examples. My point was: with traditional art, people are more apt to recognize that there's more to it than just the technical side of learning the tools and techniques... there are underlying artistic principles. With digital art (CG, video games, whatever) people generally…