<p>I’d like to add that animation jobs are constantly being outsourced to Canada, India, China, and so forth. (For example: <a href=“Sony Pictures Animation Will No Longer Animate Its Films in the US”>http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/sony-pictures-animation-will-no-longer-animate-its-films-in-the-us-100102.html</a> ) When you’re young moving about may not be an issue. But then later on you have to account for travel fees, rent, and family, both current and future additions. Would moving place to place be worth it then?</p>
<p>Not to mention that there are so many “animation” schools nowadays that the competition is through the roof. So even if you move to LA (biggest animation capital in U.S.), you’d be hard-pressed to find any relevant job.</p>
<p>I’m only an 18 year old college student, and I am slowly realizing that most studios don’t respect animators as artists but rather as means to make more money. I’d love to make some animated movies and the like, but I am too “artsy” and would probably die out in the real world.</p>
<p>I am not sure about major in computer science, however. Yeah, it’s “practical”, but a part of me is saying that doing such a hard science would neuter your creativity, or be done in indifference because of that creativity. (Like, I can’t become an engineer, no matter how much safer it is than art/ writing, because I dislike calculus, chemistry, and physics.)</p>
<p>Definitely talk to those counselors/ advisers; they’ll know more than me.</p>