/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Good post by Noah. A lot of people really just have a hateboner for him when, at the very least, he's yet another anecdote in an industry at that's at least tangentially related to one most users in /ic/ would love to participate in telling us how hard work and guts can pay off just as well as school. So far it's Noah Bradley, Clint Cearley, and I've personally heard from Nicole Dubuc (she's a writer tho, I hope she comes to CONvergence again in a few years 'cause I got something fo' dat nigga) and some random dude came into the store I work the other day who worked on X-Play and a few other shows and basically gave me a "if you build it they will come" pep-talk, too. (Of course, I really have no idea if what he said was true but he talked about it casually enough to where it was believable)

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Oh man, one of the two places near me is shut down. There's just one atelier left in my state. That's crazy considering there's only a couple dozen places on that map to begin with. Granted this is just "ARC approved" schools which is an umbrella I"m sure even a lot of desirable schools don't fit under for one reason or another. Calarts isn't there for example and I think a lot of people on /ic/ would love to go there (if they could afford it).

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I'm sure CalArts is a wonderful school, however it simply isn't an option for a lot of people. Artists and animators don't make that much money even at the elite level ($48k-80k) when you compare elite software/hardware engineers from CalTech or Elite Lawyers from Yale, Harvard etc. and yet our formal education comes at a similar premium despite the incredible risks involved in choosing a creative field to pursue. Many of us latch onto successful self-taught artists out of simple necessity my man.

I'm sure few people on /ic/ would outright turn down the chance to work "in the industry", but fewer of us still want to risk becoming ostensible slaves to debt and interest because of our spiritual passion, either.