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I am looking to learn about animation. I have been considering the online certificate courses offered through Academy of Art in SF as well as the full degree program at Art Institute of Pittsburgh online. If anyone has taken any of these courses, how were they? If you have taken online courses at Academy of Art, did you apply these to a degree later on? Was it worth it? Why or why not?
Also, are there any other good sources online? Or, which are your favorite sources for animation information online? Books? Magazines? Anything else?
I am not necessarily looking for a career in animation right now, nor in anything else – I am looking to “broaden my horizons”. If I choose to make a career of it, it will be many years in the future. I make a decent profit from freelance work in painting and sewing and am homeschooling my kids. I am not stating this to open up comments on my personal life, only so that others will be able to give me more accurate information regarding what I am truly interested in.
I would be able to cover the costs of a formal education, and that is the direction I am leaning in at the moment.
I also already have an accredited degree, could my GE classes be applied to either of these schools?
Good Online Animation Schools?
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I personally haven’t heard much about their online programs, I will apply to AAU to go in person for animation though along with Ringling and SCAD. It sounds like Animation Mentor has a pretty decent animation program though you won’t get a degree out of it. There is no reason why you can’t start being a knowledge sponge now and learning as much as you can. Check out some books or start your own personal library of references here are some ones I found really useful throughout my learning.
“The Animators Survival Kit” -Extremely useful and a constant reference for animators 2d or 3d
The “learning Maya” collection from autodesk (I learned on 2010 originally) -Easily taught me everything from the ground up from building a set, modeling characters, rigging them, animating them, rendering it all and more. You may not need to know every detail of the pipeline to be an animator but it certainly helps a ton.
“Maya Hyper Realistic Character Creation” (there’s 2 different parts) This is certainly for further down as you learn because it covers some advanced concepts in character creation that will give you amazing results like realistic eye movement, “sticky lips” and realistic muscle flex/relaxing as characters move.
Also become active on an online community like cgsociety.org I have learned and shared a great deal of information on there ever since I joined their forums. It is also a fantastic place to get free critiques from industry professionals on your works in progress.
animation mentor.