Blanche Macdonald Centre – Beauty School Dropout or Industry Pro: It’s Up to You
For as long as I can remember, I had an obsession with makeup and...
Blanche Macdonald Centre – Creating Faces
I was always interested in make-up as a kid, playing dress up, and volunteering at churches and schools doing makeup plays and...
BCIT – Essentially Too Practical
I applied to the Design Essentials program - offered jointly between Emily Carr and BCIT in the spring of 2007 after coming to the realization that the life of a career barista was not for me. There were...
VanArts – Determination Is The Key To Everything
I saw on a website (I can't remember which) that VanArts had a good reputation as an animation school. I also visited the website of an artist...
VFS – Running the One-Year Gauntlet
I was working as a graphic designer when I finally realized that aligning full stops was nowhere near as fun as my dream of making cartoons. I'd always wanted to be an animator but lacked the...
Capilano University – Commercial Animation And A Whole Lot More
Truthfully, I applied to Capilano on a whim. I had already graduated from the Foundation Visual Art and Design program at Vancouver Film...
Schoolcreative – A Step Forward
Freshly graduated from an inspiring and motivating year at the now defunct Acting For The Camera Program at Capilano University, I wanted to go places and do big things but had no clear direction of...
Capilano University – The Documentary Of My Life
A couple of years ago I became obsessed with documentaries. On a student loan-funded whim, I bailed on my plan to do travel writing...
VFS – Disorganized, Arrogant, Ridiculously Overpriced
I, too, am writing a review of VFS's classical animation course. My name is Tobin, and I was a classmate (and hopefully still am a friend)...
VanArts – Dreams Can Come True
While some of my other classmates wanted to be doctors, police offers, or other things; I had always wanted to become an animator. In Mexico, this was just not possible, so I ended up studying graphic...
