🐝Tips for SCAD students who want to continue, specifically for those who want to pursue storyboarding as a career🐝
This is my experience on the Savannah campus!
First off, look at Kit’s thread about transferring so that you can focus on taking classes that focus on your major/field of study https://twitter.com/auxiliarykit/status/1259587121364557827
Next, I’m an animation major and a storyboarding minor. If I were to do it again, I probably would have been a sequential major because I hate animating haha. I know there’s a new story/concept track but I don’t know anything about it
I also wanted to be an animation major to make my own film but SCAD changed the curriculum after it was too late to switch. Now , students will have to pitch concepts to get green lit to the professors who pick. The rest of the students will sign up for the chosen film.
I have a lot of feelings about the whole system but it’s too much to go in detail. However, it is a reason for why I wouldn’t be an animation major. DM me if you want to hear my experience in detail
Also, look into the CLEP test! You can take it for math, English, psychology and more. It’s $80 per test and it’s pass fail. You only need to get around 50/80 questions right to pass https://www.scad.edu/admission/admission-information/transfer/college-credits
Before I get into specific classes, you can actually look up class syllabus and the specific projects they do before signing up. I love doing it to gauge if I would enjoy it. You can also just use it as a guide to self study haha
Another thing to note is, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR MINOR. I kind of regret taking The Short Story, a creative writing class, just to fufill the minor. I technically didn’t finish anyway because I didn’t take Advanced Storyboarding. Take classes you like!
My friend @yelliedraws picked different seqa, animation, and illustration classes to make her own visdev curriculum (this was before the new anim system) I remember looking at her in a lab and being like why are you forcing yourself to do seqa as a minor 😂
The first class I would recommend is Drawing for Storyboarding. It’s a great beginner class and Benjamin Phillips keeps the prompts pretty open. Definitely recommend taking it with him. Artists are tagged!
Next is Enviroments, Props, and Structures. I took it with John Lowe and learned a ton. Perspective is absolutely essential in storyboarding! The class exercises were super helpful and rigorous
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Unfortunately, Action Analyis isn’t a thing anymore and I only took another life drawing class. I would definitely look into the Human Anatomy class because you probably learn a ton. That’s a big complaint for me because we don’t take life drawing every year
This class would probably be better as a being a separate character design and storyboarding class. However it was a lot of fun! Still bitter people don’t have to do the simpsons project anymore
Took Professor Goto for this one 👌
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