College neccesary to get a 3d modeling job?

#1

I think you really don’t need college for a 3d modeling job because there is so many online educational resources for this area of interest. Like digital tutors, lynda.com, youtube, gnomon workshop and probably more. Thoughts?

#2

go to school, pay the cash and go to school.

unless you plan on spending 6-12 hours a day for about 3 years of your life staring at tutorials, add on the amount of time you have spend creating projects, not only that add on rendertime. Also consider if something breaks, yea you have an online guy to go but you may have to wait a few hours for a response. If you think you can tolerate all that. Then do the online thing.

also stare at linkedin, take a long look at it, I bet you half those people are from these schools.

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#3

You don’t need a college to learn 3d modelling, but a background in arts won’t hurt.
Try the search function, this has been discussed to death.

#4

or… go to school and get a degree in something other than computer animation… and learn 3d stuff on your own.
that’s what i did.
worked out just fine for me.
art school is super expensive.
but, if you’re not the kind of person that with enough self discipline to learn on your own, school could be a good incentive. i would think that reminding yourself “i’m 80,000 dollars in debt” would be an awesome motivator to do your best.
also, having resources like a lot of computers to render on would certainly be nice… but then, with the money you spend on a semester of college, you could build yourself a small render farm…
both routes work. i’ve worked with lots of talented people who are self taught and lots of talented people who went to school.
but no, you don’t NEED a degree.

#5

But if you are buying DVD’s from the Gnomon workshop you are basically getting a education just through DVD’s.

#6

yea you say that and then you find out that is only half the story, it’s like I said either you can burn 6-12 hours a day staring at tutorials dvd’s or you can burn time in school. Either way you have a lot of work ahead of you half of which really won’t be that good. So unless you get really good really fast be forewarned you got a long road ahead of you

good luck

#7

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