VFX Voice Magazine: Leading VFX and animation schools these days must ensure that students graduate “studio-ready,” says co-owner and director Ria Bénard of Lost Boys Studios in Canada. “With more and more demand for complicated visual effects shots, studios have much less time to train new artists, so they need the graduate to hit the ground running, transition into studio work faster and more efficiently.” Ron Honn, Florida State University Visual Effects Filmmaker in Residence adds, “The biggest, and I find most rewarding, challenge for preparing students for work in the industry is preparing a curriculum that is software agnostic – to find the essential technologies that all VFX artists need to know.”
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Before I decided I wanted to go to college for technical theatre, I was hellbent on being a part of the animation industry. I have always had a strong passion for the medium and I truly believed it was what I wanted to do for my future. My mind changed, but my respect for the art has not once faulterd. Just like for my theatre colleges, I would look at lists of the best art and animation schools to see where I would want to apply. So it was no surprise to me to look at this list and see those same schools making the effort to improve their technology for the medium. The work that goes into animation is highly underestimated, so it is wonderful to see these colleges adapting to the new technologies in the industry and training their students to be the best they can be when entering that world of entertainment.
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