Noted and bookmarked thanks!

@Milkshake
Hey, that's a good initiative, so you're interested in gaining some insight knowledge about traditional sculpting and basic arts before venturing into digital sculpting? But I've never heard of individual course involving only art of sculpting unless you're mentioning about taking short courses...

Yes I'm talking about short courses I don't want a degree in traditional sculpting it's just a bonus.

omg i'd love to take a credited class like that too. even cooler, ice sculpting!

-tiff.

holidays for diploma's are ending. and holidays for degree is coming! wheeee! finally i finished my essay! @.@ 2k words... LOL!

lol..argh toa blocked fb and twitter..AIKS!!

haha finally someone with the same passion like me. well I am also interested in both programming (C++!!) and animation. and you know what, I learn both. i am TOA animation student (3rd year now) and I study programming by myself. it's actually quite easy to learn programming by myself i just need some books, internet and start coding! everything else is just your own logical thinking - how you put your idea into coding. study animation at college while learning programming by yourself - i think its the best way.

This post has been edited by Virion: Sep 1 2010, 03:16 PM

yah. last time they just block their computers. now they block the whole system.=(
so sad!

yeah..my iphone no internet plan..so have to use their wifi there..but i cant even log in my twitter and fb app.=)

Ooh interesting..
time to poke around the internet after my exams

i'm 25 and leaving my stable banking work and pay to continue study art (my passion). Most probably in animation. It's a hard decision and i'm not getting much support from ppl around me.

Many issues has arised;
starting next year.. 3 years course. i'll be only working at 29.
GF wants to get married around 2 years time. how? leave her?
I'll be most probably living off my previous work's pay.. until i can get other source of income.

I'm taking a big risk here just so that I would love my job doing art instead of now. I've done my research and looks like TOA is my first choice now. I'll like to get some insight from the forumers on what is the average student age in toa? i'm afraid i can't blend in. How's the job prospect in the future? In reality malaysia isn't much of a good place for animators..

is it worth it to pursue my passion? Hope some current students in TOA get to reply me. thanks!

You will be working at 29 so what ? better than doing a job u don't like for the rest of ur life right ?
Talk to ur gf this is about ur future, you passion, what's important for both of you is to be happy if she can't wait one more year... well it's not really my business, just talk to her.

I'm 28 with exp in graphic design, a diploma in multimedia and i'm still going to TOA nxt year to get better in drawing/3D.
For the past 5 years I moved to France / Australia where I study while working part time in a hotel
I design stuff with ppl from different country, some friends in my class were 30 and more they were doing some crappy jobs and decided to do what they like.
If i want to I can get a full time job in a hotel back home and "start my life", save money... but there's no way I'm gonna do that.

"In reality malaysia isn't much of a good place for animators.."

OK Read this and tell me what u think :

http://malaysia.3dworldmag.com/

and this

http://malaysia.next-gen.biz/

Mikeshake, thanks for sharing. This is what I need.. good comments from u guys Hope I can meet u next year in toa.

"In reality malaysia isn't much of a good place for animators.."

heh.. that's what ppl are scaring me. But of course I still believe there is super alot of potential in terms of growth for animation. If not I wouln't be considering about goin to TOA!!~~

Can't get into the link that u send becuz office doesn't have Flash built in lol. will take a look at it when i'm home.

Don't worry too much, I'm about to graduate from TOA, so from my experience in college, the lecturers are really helpful, its all about knowing what to ask. They are always updating/upgrading the computers for DG students and also MM students. Atm the comps we have are win7, i7 processors, 12gb ram and so on. I usually stay back in college with my team to work on our finals[they open 2 labs if you have to work during the midnight, but most of the labs are closed at 12].

I know a few people in college who are aged around their 30s too & still studying. And they are still watching animes and playing games, so hey, I don't think age really matters.

This post has been edited by Xiven: Sep 8 2010, 05:51 PM

i dunno if i have the right to comment on ur post as im just a student that just grad from sec school and currently studying in TOA. the students there are around 18-21..but i don think its wrong for someone who are elder than us to pursue studies there lo..
and do u really interested in ur banking work? if not why wanna stick with something u don like until end of ur life? since u know its time to change, go ahead then..thats what i think la..IMO..

as for the animators career path, u have to ask the students who study digital animation or mayb u can do a lil bit searching on it?

i thought they said they going to upgrade all the iMac?

I'm not there but from what I know :
A Imac can't be upgrade except for the ram and hard drive.



That's a good thing I didn't know they had labs open til midnight
Well they will have one more guy around 30s watching anime and playing video games there

This post has been edited by Mikeshake: Sep 8 2010, 06:12 PM

err..no no i mean they will upgrade all the computers to iMac..to all apple products..

I hope ur wrong that will be a terrible mistake an imac for 3D is crap the graphic card sucks, I know I own one

For the MM students, yes. I saw all the new fresh boxes of iMacs outside the lab. xD

Edit : For DG will still be Dell computers. =x

This post has been edited by Xiven: Sep 8 2010, 06:26 PM

if its for MM only it's ok =D

BTW Xiven can you tell me more about the animation you have to do in 3rd year ?
Are you free to choose the person in your team ?
How long do you have to get the animation finished ?

This post has been edited by Mikeshake: Sep 8 2010, 07:18 PM