Animation Mentor

Today I applied for enrollment at the Animation Mentor online School of Animation.




For those of you who have never heard of it, you're not alone. I just found out about it this morning, and spent the first half of the day reading all about it. It's basically a school that teaches animation using Maya. You are given a video to watch each week, as well as an assignment. Your assignment is then critiqued at the end of the week by industry professionals (mentors) and you hand it in on Sunday.

The course is 18 months long, and requires 10-20 hours of work each week.

As far as the mentors go, 13 of them are currently employed at Pixar, and the are from similar companies like Blur, ILM, and Blue Sky.

The school does NOT teach modeling or rigging. You use their existing rigged models and animate them according to the assignments.

As I said, I've only just applied, so we'll see what comes of it, but it sounds like it could be quite exciting!

More to come on this...