:( I need help everybody! I just graduated from an art school and I like it there, but they are heavy set on 3D animation and very little on 2D animation. Don't get me wrong I like it 3D animation, but my biggest interest is to draw my brains out. So I'm looking around for good, if not best, 2D animation schools. I found a bunch in Vancouver ( VanArts, VFS, and Capilano). Here in US though, I couldn't get a good one that is a 2D program strong or I can't see it on their website. I would like to go to school where it's near in the US.
So please help me out. Any comments on any school would be really awesome!
HELP!! Where are the good 2D animation schools?!
By DoodleSketcher | Friday, November 5, 2004 at 7:58am
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HELP!! Where are the good 2D animation schools?!
If you can go any where look into Cal Arts, Ringling, Savannah College of Art and Design, Pratt, Academy of Art (San Fran), Vancouver, (Sheridan R.I.P. is dead I think or morphed) and check the AWN database for schools. Call the schools, ask questions, look at their websites. Locate alumni and ask them questions. Find 2D companies and ask them where they recruit from or who they hire.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to us." ---Gandalf
Hum...don't really know of any 2D schools which actually specialize in 2D!
Maybe someday- for now most schools do 2D / 3D or just 3D.
Thanks.
Larry
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Sheridan College's (Oakville Ontarion, close to Toronto) classical animation programme is strictly 2D. If you want to stick around after the third year and do your graduate class in 3D, it is there, but the first 3 years are spent flipping the old drawings. Capilano as well, you can focus on 2D. I know the guy who runs the program (actually, he is also a member of this forum, Don Perro, the old nut), and his main interest is focusing on the 2D stuff. I just saw a bunch of his latest grads' work, and it was absolutely beautiful. Great program, that one is!
Cheers
"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard" - Paul Simon
Hi,
Do you think that you might be able to get a link here to show us that are interested in seeing the grads. work? I just love seeing the "new stuff" from all of the graduates, it's a kind of hope for all of us 2ders that wish to see 2d back on the market as it once was.
-HannaBarberaGuy-
Vancouver Film School 2D department
http://www.vfs.com/facultyDet.php?program_id=5&staff_id=61
Sheridan School of Animation, Art, and Design
http://www.sheridaninstitute.ca/
2D Animation
http://www1.sheridanc.on.ca/programs/0405/saad/pbaaa/
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to us." ---Gandalf
:) Thanks for the replies! It helped me out a bit about what to decide on. I know that most schools around the US are 2D/3D programs, but I kind of wished that it's more of an equal thing. I have respect for both, but I'm still into seeing and creating conceptual arts or preliminary sketches, designing characters, drawing backgrounds (sigh). Thanks!! Oh and for links of grads' work I only know some 'coz all the people that I know that graduated already either don't have their own site or they post their work on CGtalk.com ConceptArt.org or DevianArt.com..... I'm working on mine very slowly :( OH AND thanks for the links you provided Hett15!!
Once again thanks everybody!! KEEP ON DRAWING!!
Ask Don where to view his grads' work at Capilano. I am positive that it exists on line, and I am even MORE sure that he would be happy to share it with you.
Cheers
His name is Don Perro... Look him up in the "Members List" on the forum, and send him an e-mail or a private message. An e-mail will probably get you a more immediate response.
Tell him Wade sent you ;), and that he still owes me a brew.
"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard" - Paul Simon
Check out program information for VanArts 2D program here:
http://www.vanarts.com/programs_full/2d/index.htm
To view the latest student work in 2D:
http://www.vanarts.com/gallery/2004b/index.htm
I'll put in a plug for the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. www.uarts.edu
They have at least 2 really good 2D instructors. I'm not sure if they have anything in a graduate program though...
Hi Doodle,
Although it was mentioned earlier, it wasn't clearly stated that YES, THANK GOD YES, there is still a school that hands out degrees for classical animation still. It's CALARTS of course, Diseny's forgotten talent garden. I have just recieved my college information in the mail for the school and am doing my homework before while I wait for the portfolio deadline to come. THEY have on campus dorms to abide in, awesome teachers that are like no other in the nation, and don't tolerate slackers or whatsoever. So you know you will be able to concentrate on your work, if you are as serious as you say you are.
http://www.calarts.edu/schools/index.html go here to have all of your questions answered and if not go here to order a their book which will definitly answer all of them.
-HannaBarberaGuy-
some US schools:
http://www.risd.edu/film.cfm
http://www.scad.edu/academic/majors/anim/index.html
http://www.rit.edu/~sofa/
Not exactly animation schools, but they offer animation programs. Sheridan's program seems the most hardcore, they make you take figure drawing every semester, which every animation school should do.
Hi, sorry this is late. I was out of town.
To see all the work of the last three years of graduates from the two animation programs at Capilano College, go to...
http://www.gradshow.com/gallery.html
...which contains portfolio pages from our annual gradbook as well as video of animation.
Everyone is represented and nothing is edited by faculty, so you can really see the program rather than just a few "stars".
The Digital Animation program is the next step for many Commercial Animation grads. We thought about joining them like Algonquin and Seneca but I like focusing two years on classical (which is necessary) and the one year digital program attracts people from the 2D industry which creates a good mix for the students coming straight out of Commercial. Commercial Animation grads get automatic acceptance to the digital program.
Thanks for the help Wade. Yes, I know I still owe you a beer. How about a Tsingtao? I just got back from Beijing. We're setting up two Cap programs in universities there and we're going to need good instructors (English).
http://www.gradshow.com/gallery.html
Is that an offer, Don? ;)
"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard" - Paul Simon
you betcha'
Of course there'll be a committee of faculty doing the hiring. You'd like Harbin...it's like Ottawa only a little hotter in summer and a little colder in winter.
http://www.gradshow.com/gallery.html