University of Kent - Computer Animation

Hi atreya2011

This forum is filled to bursting with questions about the quality of university animation courses. It's perfectly understandable but looking at the question from the other side, one of the best animators I know did an Engineering degree so..

Personally I think any course is only as good as it's students because it's your fellow students who are going to inspire and push you most, not the tutors.

I don't know the course in question but I did do the Foundation course at the Maidstone KIAD and that was brilliant. Very creative, totally made you question and reassess all the stuff you thought you knew, which is exactly what you need after coming out of school.

Job prospects? Well if you're very good/well connected you could be directing commercials for Nexus or Passion within a year if you make a project that really makes a splash. Otherwise there is plenty of work in the Games Industry in Brittania.

Good luck

Bentos

The top programs attract the best students. So, the better the program, the better the students and the more they will challenge you. They go hand in hand.:)

If you're expecting to be spoonfed then you're going to be dissappointed. Farnham probably has one of the best records as an animation course in Britain and it's well known for herding people in and leaving them to it.

Believe me atreya2011, £12000 is a lot of money here too.

Christ, is that how much it takes to get told about bouncing balls these days?

Anyway, like I said I don't know the course. What I do know is what I learnt directly from the tutors in 5 years of full-time Art school education (at some fairy respected establishments) here in Blighty you could count on the fingers of one hand.

Good luck