Character animation and modeling? Help me figure it out?

martinezcs
Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:51:50 +0000

My daughter told me recently the early days of the visualization program at Texas A&M were very competitive (amongst each other). But now it is very collaborative. They only accept 80 incoming freshman and 20 change of major and transfer students into the Visualization degree program. So they have to apply and get accepted early since majors are first come first serve. First admitted students get their choice of major until the major fills. If they get accepted after the major is full, they are offered their second choice major. It is a small cohort of students within a very large university, one of the largest in the nation. But this visualization cohort of students take most of their classes and move through the program together. To give you an idea of the life of a visualization student-We visited recently and students are in the freshman studio every day. We visited on a Sunday afternoon and there were about a dozen students in the freshman studio working on their Visualization projects. She joined three clubs: Women in Animation, Siggraph (computer graphics club), and SWAMP (student filmmaking club). Siggraph even assigned her a mentor. She is also volunteering for the chillenium which is at Texas A&M each year and it is the largest Collegiate game jam. She co-designed the flyer for this years event. She is also volunteering for Aggie Con which is a student run convention (anime, scifi etc). I’m pretty impressed with the program and she is just a freshman! She’s only been there for 3 months. They also are required to do a semester away their junior year. It can be a full semester (spring or fall) study abroad to Germany or Italy or it can be a paid internship.