I don't know where to go... SVA or UCF (or Ringling) for animation? Help!

cheesenachos1
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:30:48 +0000

Well Ringling is offering me $30k of financial help for the first year and at least that’s something considering that I still don’t know how much financial help I’ll be receiving from SVA, especially since it’s a for-profit insitution. My test scores are the only thing that’s keeping me away from being qualified for Bright Futures. I recently took the ACT again after a few attempts and I really hope this time I’ll get a high enough score to be qualified.

I was offered other majors like Game Design, Motion Design, etc. (I even mentioned it in my post). I’m aware little to no animation is done in most animation studios but I like the idea of having a student film to showcase. The closest major I MIGHT consider is illustration but I don’t know how the illustration program is compared to CA (other than the fact CA is… well… more animation based and more digital based while illustration is more traditional).

I know there’s a few other FL schools offering animation but they either mainly focus on game design, SFX, or the technical aspects of CGI animations.

And I am SURE I want to animate. I can’t imagine myself doing any other career. I aspire to work in the animation industry either as a storyboard artist or character or background designer.

I have not heard of Animation Mentor but I’ll look into that.

Thank you so much for your response. I’ll be deeply thinking about my choices in these next few days.