Art institute, Vancouver film school, animation mentor have great teachers, but lack one vital ingrediant. All the animations use the same characters with very similar expressions from every student. I think if anyone is going to pay a huge amount of money, they should atleast allow & encourage the students to develope and explore their own creativity with their projects as they are given the tools to work with. That would be worth the money then!
People from all over the world and they all end up creating characters that look exactly the same! What are the chances of that?! My Baloney has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R
Saving up money for this so I can pay it in full. Currently I'm going to take Animation at Cleveland Institute of Art, but I think I'd get a better education with Animation Mentor, so I don't have to take a bunch of liberal art classes I don't need.
currently in vancoucer film school. I have to build your own model and rig for my animations. for the beginner classwork stuff, yeah, you use a standard faceless model, but that's because you're learning the basics of animation and modeling at the same time. if they didn't supply you with a model, you'd have to wait afew terms in before you can even start animating.
Buddy, if you had any clue the amount of time that goes into modeling, rigging, and texturing your own "creative" character, you'd think twice about your statement. This is a demo reel for ANIMATION. And besides, their more advanced classes DO encourage them to use their own creativity on projects. I go to CU Denver and I WISH we had a generic usable character rig like animation Mentor!
