All I care about is portfolio, work experience and personality. For people with no work experience, i don't care if you spent 80K or taught yourself, it's all down the the quality of the work i see. It's down to the person drive. I've seen some amazing self taught people, others need that environment to motivate them.…
Stay at home and take a local life drawing course. (these can be very cheap) Use online resources and learn off your own back, if you are serious enough about this, it will work for you. Save our money you would have spent on college courses for hard times. Dont get 40k in debt before you have even started out in life.
Will have a tl;dr so this can be skipped: So last time I posted one of these I got glorious direction about 1.5 years ago. I skipped on going to DeVry or something crappy and was told about Gnomon and began my journey to get accepted. At the time I had no drawing experience, I have been accepted to the 3 year recently and…
The thing is its probably cooler and better to be instructed by jack bosson who like makes perfect lines than just some random life drawing place right? I dunno tho.. my parents definitely don't want me to just sit at home and only learn from the internet, if just for the sake of getting more social and experiencing a bit…
schools, especially these 3D schools, are a money making business. They have "acceptance" portfolios to make you feel important you get in, but really they will accept pretty much anyone with basic skills. I've seen sooo many student dig themselves into debt in these schools, because no one will term them "no", due to the…
short version: it's not worth 80K. Pay yourself for a year and focus on sculpting and modeling. You drawing skills are too weak to be a concept artist. You will not need to know any other programs than Photoshop, Zbrush, Max/Maya and the company engine (oversimplifying a little i know) certificates are useless. At least…
You make a good point but I want to be clear, its not that I want to go do something else at that time... I just want to be home. I'd gladly do the work at home. I'm pretty much fine with working all day right now at home.. But its such a big adjustment to go from spending time with my family and my dog on my lap and so on…
I'm still mulling this decision over as its really kind of a life changer but as of right now, tired of an 8 hour day, I'm leaning once again towards the easier and less costly option while still reaping the benefits of networking and such, I think thats going to be great for me. Oddly enough before going to the school I…