I graduated from two programs here and all in all I had a great experience! Learned a lot thanks to skilled and friendly instructors and started networking as a result.
Nothing but good things about the instructors here. They were all committed to helping you improve. My favorites were Ted Wilson of the ACA program who I find helped me the most in improving my artistic skills and would offer very good notes, thus motivating his students to keep improving, and Dylan Moore of the Foundations program, who is highly helpful as well as understanding with regards to work and has a great teaching style with regards to animation concepts.
If you show up and do your work on time, you will do well in this school regardless of whatever your starting skill level is, as instructors value attitude, professionalism and improvement as much as skill level/the work itself.
My only gripe was with the attendance grading system. You lose marks for being absent, which is fair as showing up and giving notice for absences is a part of professionalism, but while there is a process to get these absences excused, excused absences still lose you the same number of marks as unexcused absences, when I feel like this penalty should be halved. As such it can feel like it doesn't matter whether you get them excused or not unless you are running close to your maximum allowed absences (35) which is when admin checks for excused absences and will offer...
Read moreI am a film director. On July 1st, I shot a film titled Sense, which I wrote, cast, and produced. Leonardo Marcelo Tecocha Romero, who is currently enrolled in Term 2 of the Film Production Program, served as the Director of Photography.
However, shortly after the shoot, he hijacked my film, claiming ownership simply because it was shot on his camera. He is now presenting Sense as his own project—acting as if he were the director and using it for his portfolio.
Despite the fact that I have all the evidence to prove it is my work, the school has chosen to turn a blind eye. My creative work has been stolen, and I am...
Read moreIt is not a bad school. The courses are sometimes though but if you are willing to do the works and actually come to classes, you wouldn't fail at it. Also it is good place to make...
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