Game Design Education

How to Choose a Animation School
Many of us grew up with the dream of one day becoming an animator but up until maybe 20 years ago that dream was almost impossible for most people to achieve. At that time becoming an animator meant going to college studying illustration graduating and hopefully you found an apprenticeship with a professional animator. There were very few colleges that offered degrees in animation but all that's changed if you want to become an animator nowadays there is a clear path you can take, attend a college that offers a degree in animation...... read full article >

How Animated Movies Are Made
What is animation? Animation is the art of brining something to life. How it's brought to life can be done any number of different ways. It can be drawn, like Mike Surrey here to the right. You can make a model of it and move it, like in "The Nightmare Before Christmas." You can put it on a computer, like Toy Story. Or you can cut out bits of paper and move the paper, like (yech) South Park (the original one anyways). You can even move whole people around, photographing them one frame at a time, so they can move without walking. All of these are different forms of animation...... read full article >