You may or may not have seen Rastko's comparison. He claims it's biased but every last word is true. I'd recommend iAnimate over AM any day of the week.

Rastko got hired, but I forgot which studio. I believe Angelo Sta. Catalina (Dance3d on here) got hired at Blue Sky. Another student got hired at Disney (he came from AM). Granted this is all before they technically even graduated. That's 3 of the 8 students that I know of out of the first graduating class. The student reels speak for themselves; I'm totally an iA snob now, but honestly I think the work coming out of iA is really good. I don't really want to compare the work to AM's work, because they have some fantastic animators too. My favorite part about how Jason set it up is that it's a pass/fail system. Unlike AM, you don't get arbitrary grades; you're either good enough to move on (good enough for feature animation) or you're not.

Yeah, Daniel Klug, graduated from AM and everything, then went to iAnimate for like the last two workshops I think, and just got hired at Disney.

As for Pixar? Not that I know of. There's only been that one graduating class and all. But hey, any job placement is good job placement. I have a feeling once the alumni go to Dreamworks for graduation (they put their demo reels on the studio screen!), they'll have a good chance of finding something.

i think i animate is for advanced class..while in AM, you can start from very basic...and Basic is very very important

No I think that the iAnimate workshop 1 is just as basic as it can get, if you would consider their program on the website.

If you're late with an assignment you miss the critique, which is the main point of being there, so I wouldn't take it on if you can't invest a decent amount of time to it.

Cheers,
Brian

of course, I know that:)pretty much all jobs have deadlines, just how much time should I at least put into the class? its not that I don't care, I really want to be dedicated to animating, im just concerned but my schedule :S all the advice by you guys has been great by the way! thanks!

Last edited by AnthonyOceguera (01-19-2012 7:29 pm)

well I don't have experience in the industry, but I do have experience in animation already, thanks for the advice though! I could put that to consideration as well

I can vouch for Martyn, he has some fantastic work coming out of the school.

Yay! You've made the correct choice in joining the dark side. All the powers of the force will soon be yours.

wolfor wrote:

Since my next job probably won't happen, I think I'm actually going to have enough time to start at least one iAnimate Workshop next round, so looking forward to that!

Also, this is exciting man, look forward to seeing you work some magic!

I'm two weeks into Workshop 3 with iAnimate, this is the first one I've done. I'm having an absolute blast and learning a lot, highly recommended. I have no experience with AM so can't compare, but our mentor has encouraged us to email her during the week if we have questions or need notes which is really great. I'm not sure if all iA mentors do this, but I know at least a few of them do. As well as getting our own critiques live we are free to watch the recordings from any of the other mentors too, which means we can get lots of different perspectives.

Overall, you could say I'm a big fan of iAnimate

Cheers,
Brian

Last edited by Horganovski (01-23-2012 8:32 pm)

Ok, so I applied to iA for the game division. First class of it is starting in May. Hopefully I get in.

But what I'm wondering, is AM still only recorded crits? When iAnimate first came out, the 2 hour video explaining it with Jason Ryan, he said that iA does live crits, and AM does recorded crits, which is the main reason I think I like iA better. Now with the games division, it was super easy for me to apply, especially since they`ll have character / creature rigs specifically for games, which is awesome. I like game rigs much more than feature rigs. So I've already applied, but I just curious of AM stepped it up and is doing live crits now or not.

Anyone know?