Don't take one of those crappy Game Developer courses!

[obsidian]

[GONNAFISTYA]

I hate you.

[pjw]

ahahaha nice.

[wattro]

obsidian: you did all that in school? that's really quite nice

[Fjoggs]

[obsidian]

obsidian: you did all that in school? that's really quite nice

Here's an interview with Colin Sanders which explains things about the video a little better. I'm not Colin Sanders, but he did go to UOIT which is here in Toronto where I live. I'm not Colin!

[WHAT!!]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bfq-fwOWH2U&feature=related

[r3t]

This made me remember all those worthless classes I've attended for my CS degree... thanks for nothing!

[seremtan]

wtf

[corsair]

is this at all serious?

"Animation Arts is a mandatory third year course at my school (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) for all those in my program, Game Development and Entrepreneurship."

Lol, being in the third year of such a course and making shit that wouldn't even make it into any game ten years ago..
How pathethic is that? I can hardly believe its true.

[Kat]

Well keep in mind that the fault here is on the course leader and not the students, that's what happens if you leave "this is how you animate stuff" till the last four weeks of a course!

[Raven]

That's good stuff there LOL.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Well keep in mind that the fault here is on the course leader and not the students, that's what happens if you leave "this is how you animate stuff" till the last four weeks of a course!

Me and my classmates actually sued our school for a refund because they couldn't possibly cover everything they said they would and our teacher was learning PowerAnimator as the students learned it. He was indeed an accomplished professional (he was a Softimage demo artist) but he had to spend time researching the manuals simply because he was unfamiliar with some of PowerAnimator's setup. The fact that we had to sue them for our money back was bullshit considering Manitoba's Vocational School law statutes were pretty clear that any dissatisfied student can get an automatic refund if the course wasn't what they thought it'd be.

I have to say that I'm not a big fan of private multimedia courses (Sheridan College and Vancouver Film School are exceptions to this rule) because alot of them are unrealistic in what they promise and can/will bullshit prospective students simply to get their cash. Private schools sometimes don't give a shit about quality if their focus is money.

Caveat emptor.

[urgrund777]

my opinion is that there is no such thing as a "games development" degree/course... the topic is far too broad and requires years of training in each particular discipline - which is why artists will have generally come from multimedia backgrounds and programmers would have done computer science/math courses. ...there needn't be a mention of "games" at all in those courses to get a solid and practical grounding to get into the industry.

my advice is to study in the particular field that you want to be in within the games industry... art, animation, tech/code etc.

we have a couple of these "games courses" here, and sadly, every applicant we get that came from these courses are horribly under-skilled and at best get some shit-kicker junior job