By far, the single most common question to fill up our E-Mail box regards how one goes about getting our jobs.

Until recently there was no formalized way of learning about animation, save the Disney feeder program at California Institute for the Arts.

Lucky you, now lots of educational institutions are eager to teach you about one form or another of animation for only slightly extortionate fees.

If you're serious about finding a job once you get your diploma, don your flak jacket and your gas mask, you're going to Hollywood! Sorry, LA's ugly and dangerous. It's also the only place where the film industry is big enough to support a pool of freelancers--the best way to get a foot in the door.

   
   
Institutions with programs in animation or special effects:

  Cal Arts:
Offers courses in both Computer and Traditional animation. (Los Angeles)

UCLA :
Offers courses in both Computer and Traditional animation. (Los Angeles)

USC:
Offers courses in both Computer and Traditional animation. (Los Angeles)

American Film Institute:
Offers the "Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies" (Los Angeles)

Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
Offer programs teaching 3D and VFX/Compositing. (Canada)

Gnomon, Inc. School of Visual Effects
A trade school focusing on digital media education.(Hollywood)
 
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 Links to sites about Effects or Animation:

VFXpro:
The official site for the Visual Effects Society

Animation Magazine:
An online version of "Animation Magazine" featuring current info on the industry and behind the scenes goings on.

Digital Content Producer
Millimeter magazine's journal dedicated to the art of visual effects, graphics and animation in interactive media and television.

DesignInMotion.com:
An online trade magazine of motion graphics and broadcast design professionals.

ASIFA News:
This is the quarterly newsletter of the ASIFA association (ASIFA is the international animation society...its name is an acronym in French: ASsociation Internationale du Film d'Animation).

Animation World Network:
Animation World Magazine Online. This will also link you to the American version of ASIFA News.

 
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Other book stores specializing in movie ephemera

Bud Plant Comic Art:
They describe themselves as; Bud Plant's incredible Art Books. Discover 4,000 hard to find books at your fingertips: www.budplant.com. 240 page catalog is available.
P.O. Box 1689-CFX1, Grass Valley, CA. 95945
1-800-242-6642

Larry Edmund's Bookshop
6644 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
Phone: (323) 463-3273
Fax: (323) 463-4245
Email: edmunds@artnet.net

Long a Hollywood institution. If something has ever been written about stage, TV or film, these guys have it or can get it.

 
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 For the aspiring animator
  Sorry, there are no toys to be had.
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We supply the preceding links to help you find information about animation and special effects (and to spare us from responding to the same questions on an individual basis). Animation & Effects provides these links as a courtesy only. We have no affiliation with any of these sites nor can we vouch for the accuracy of any information that you may derive from these sites or the trustworthiness of the organizations that run them. Happy hunting.

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