Game Art courses and Schools

[Ats24]

anyone who knows or even better has been to Breda university in the game technology and architecture please PM me... i mean how is it?

[KWolmarans]

Originally Posted by beartraps

I have heard ITT is a load of shit, however school is what you make of it. I would say 90 percent of what I have learned has been on my own through tutorials and this great site. I would recommend making yourself your networking sites a high source of learning, most schools cant teach and critique everything. Read books and watch tutorials whenever you can. A degree is great and all but from what I have learned thus far it's absolutely your work that counts.

Take it from me i went to ITT-Tech I graduated 2009, Valedictorian, ABK Honors Society, etc.
It cost me over $80,000 and i wish that i had never stepped foot into their college. I had an instructor who was involved with the game industry for about 10-15 years, He had to leave after his class graduated (ITT and him had a falling out over the course)

The program is sorely lacking and teaches the basics of game theory. They do not teach Modeling past basic intro to modeling, They did not teach UVMapping, Texturing, Normal/Spec/Occlu mapping. They teach basic .net coding, basic photoshop, there was theory of how lighting and sound is used to set a scene that has immersion, but there was no actual scene setting done.(all theorizing) By the time i figured this all out it was too late their credits DO NOT transfer.

Hindsight being 20/20 id have picked up a bachelors degree in multimedia from a state university costing me alot less and self studies like i am doing now.

The OP has it right in the quoted part buy books from amazon that are recommended by game studios. Get a degree in anything other than game design and then focus on your specialty in the gaming industry be it characters, sound, environment art etc..

If any college is charging over $50,000 for their degree walk away. I didn't know as i came to the states to learn game development that meant no scholarship eligibility my $80k at 6.8% is over $870 a month that's over 10k a year.

[JuveChrist]

Anyone who can give me some info about SMU guildhall???? im plannin to go there.....

[Pieman]

Originally Posted by point5zero

Manchester College or Arts & Technology (MANCAT). I do game development here and its supposed to be the only college in the northwest that does it, although if it isnt its the best oen to go to apparently. i do recommend it.

Not true at all. I applied for that college and i really didn't like the interview


2. She kept talking about how grate my grades were instead of the course itself. And overall it sounded like photoshop work because that's all she managed to show me.

You should have really went to trafford college where i am studying now. It's on manchester road and you can get there by getting off at timperly on the altrincham line. It teaches a lot more than what MANCAT teaches you and it's a great building to work at. The teachers are relaxed and just talk to us like friends instead of students. We've been all anticipating Red dead redemption with the teacher showing HUUGGEE interest heh

Good Luck anyhoo!

[PermaGrin]

Originally Posted by pixel_pimp

Has anyone been through the Full Sail online game program?

Game Development and Programming Degree at Full Sail

Be aware that this link is to the programming side of games, not art creation. You would have to look for their online Game Art degree.

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[proximityinfotech3]

ya i think i will come, just to check it out,

but if your from beglium, breda would be alot closer!

i live in utrecht so for me its maybe 4km?

think about it,

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[stocko2k]

Originally Posted by point5zero

Manchester College or Arts & Technology (MANCAT). I do game development here and its supposed to be the only college in the northwest that does it, although if it isnt its the best oen to go to apparently. i do recommend it.

not the only school in the northwest theres a course at john moores uni in liverpool another in manchester and then st helens which i go to, after interveiws at both manchester courses i decided st helens was the better course and moved from devon to attend.

the course is being re written this year so next year the course will be even better.

[Toby john]

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[Drayco_V-Low_204]

Originally Posted by Shadow71

It's actually referred to now as IADT (International Academy of Design & Technology - Toronto, Canada)

I took the course a couple years ago, and it was well...less then fabulous, hopefully they have improved the course, but just be prepared to learn most of your stuff in spare time, and use the school as a nice primer to get you started toward learning modeling, a really expensive $30,000 primer.

That sucks.. thats alot of money for freaking primer! Hope you are doing well though