Im in the 4th year of a multi media study, and i hardly learned anything through school. everything i can, is because i taught myself, so yea for me it was a waste of time, but i seam to hit the worst school in this area. i could have better done another study on the side to maybe fall back on some day, It didnt sound…
I myself think that learning nurbs (for 1/4th of the year btw) was a great experience and now I build with both nurbs and poly's combined which increased my workflow alot, I had no experience at all in maya and made this ship after 3 months: http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn288/el-ementrix/Finalrendertestonline1.jpg…
It was a bit more than 1/4th in our first year; the second quarter was mostly NURBS (as with you), but the 4th quarter was so largely too. I absolutely hated NURBS - there's not much flexibility, you have to outline your way of creation before you make the actual object, while I like to flip a poly here, add something…
Totally agree with Pope Adam on this one, I also go to San Diego AI. The classes are constantly updating a changing based on the changing industry and the teachers (the handful of good ones at least do) are pushing students that show passion harder than the people who don't think work outside of class is needed. Some of…