I am curious to what school i should attend, my goal is to learn 2d traditional and animate like old school. Looney Tunes, and old Mickey cartoons.
For sometime, i thought Vanarts would be a good choice but, now im not to sure. Calarts? Animation Mentor? Academy of Art University? How can i get taught by disney animators? http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/who_walt_disney_animation_studios.html
I dont want to learn 3d, at all. I've tinkered in it and i dont like it. I dont feel like an animator when I model, and use 3d program, i feel like im making sprites, etc.
I want to work on cartoons you see on cartoon network, nick, disney, whatever. Where do I go? Help!!!
I have been animating as an amature since 2000, and now starting to understand the animation process, but I feel as if i need more schooling. Plus i got the rest of my life to pay off college debt.
So its now a fact of where should i goto school. Ideally, i would love to get a scholarship, but my luck I wont get one.
http://www.flashcartoons.org <-- my site
http://www.traditionalanimation.com <-- my passion
http://learninganimation.blogspot.com <-- my blog
I understand that you prefer 2d animation but if your going to be doing it as a job. at some point in the future I doubt you will be able to completely ignore doing 3d animation. because of how much faster you can work. animators build models because they want to, not because they have to. you can get models from various places
Check out the "Art and Animation Schools" sticky at the top of the page. It's a up to quite a lot of pages now, but if you skim it, you should be able to get quite a lot of good info from it.
If you want to go into traditional animation, I don't know if I'd recommend AnimationMentor.com. Don't get me wrong, they are an amazing animation school, but their primary focus is character animation. So unless you have great drafting skills already to draw upon, I think a more traditional art school would be better for you.
There are several top quality onsite art schools that still teach traditional animation. I went to the Academy of Art University and they have a top notch Illustration department, and when I graduated they had a very good animation department as well. There is also Cal Arts in southern California, and SCAD in Florida. There is another school in Florida but the name escapes me at the moment. And if you have prior animation experience, you can also apply the to French school Gobelins. There is also Sheridan in Canada.
I think you could hardly go wrong attending any of those schools.
Aloha,
the Ape
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
IF you're looking to take your classes online in 2D/Traditional then have a look- see at The Academy of Art .
*Full disclosure: yes, I'm biased, as I'm the Online Coordinator of the 2D Animation program at Academy of Art, but I really am working hard to make this program the premiere 2D animation program online. I'm recruiting quite a number of my former colleagues from Disney Feature Animation to teach these classes. If you want to learn this old-school style then we can help you.
(see what I posted in the Educator's Forum : here )
Check us out . I'm glad to answer questions. If you have ANY desire to register for Fall '08 classes online we're down to the wire . Do it sooner than later . Another week and the registration process will be shutting down until next semester (Spring '09)
http://online.academyart.edu/animation.html
email: dnethery -at- academyart -dot - edu