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I have been working as a graphic designer in the Mac/Apple platform for about 14 years now. After all this time I feel dissatisfied with my graphic design career. It doesn't truly fulfill my deepest inner expectations and dreams. I have always liked animation and illustration. After seeing such animated movies as The Incredibles, Cars, Madagascar, Appleseed, Final Fantasy (The Spirits Within) and Final Fantasy VII (Advent Children), and also the special effects on such movies as the Matrix, Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Star Wars (Revenge of the Sith)... I decided that It would truly be very COOL to learn this exciting new career.
A school like Cal-Arts in Valencia, California, the Art center College of Design in Pasadena, California or the School of Visual Arts in New York would be ideal institutions I would choose, but they are very expensive, and I have been told that since I already have a degree (BFA) I won't qualify for government help and would have to get in serious debt through a private lending institution like Sally Mae.
I truly don't know what steps to take to learn more about 3D animation before I finally decide to actually jump in. Nurbs, Particles, Rendering...all these terms confuse me. I would like to play around with a program to see if I actually have what it takes to be a 3D modeller/animator but the Maya software for Macintosh is very expensive. A friend gave me an old copy of Lightwave but when I open the program I simply don't know what to do with it. I have a G4 with 867 MHz and 512 MB of RAM.
I am 38 years old now. Do animation studios "discriminate" older candidates? Any comments will be sincerely appreciated.
Pepiniux
I have been working as a graphic designer in the Mac/Apple platform for about 14 years now. After all this time I feel dissatisfied with my graphic design career. It doesn't truly fulfill my deepest inner expectations and dreams. I have always liked animation and illustration. After seeing such animated movies as The Incredibles, Cars, Madagascar, Appleseed, Final Fantasy (The Spirits Within) and Final Fantasy VII (Advent Children), and also the special effects on such movies as the Matrix, Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Star Wars (Revenge of the Sith)... I decided that It would truly be very COOL to learn this exciting new career.
A school like Cal-Arts in Valencia, California, the Art center College of Design in Pasadena, California or the School of Visual Arts in New York would be ideal institutions I would choose, but they are very expensive, and I have been told that since I already have a degree (BFA) I won't qualify for government help and would have to get in serious debt through a private lending institution like Sally Mae.
I truly don't know what steps to take to learn more about 3D animation before I finally decide to actually jump in. Nurbs, Particles, Rendering...all these terms confuse me. I would like to play around with a program to see if I actually have what it takes to be a 3D modeller/animator but the Maya software for Macintosh is very expensive. A friend gave me an old copy of Lightwave but when I open the program I simply don't know what to do with it. I have a G4 with 867 MHz and 512 MB of RAM.
I am 38 years old now. Do animation studios "discriminate" older candidates? Any comments will be sincerely appreciated.
Pepiniux
