Sludge in the CalArts Dorms?? Animation Students Answer Your Questions!

[@SakuraOpalArt]

THANK YOU FOR HOSTING THIS JAIMI THIS IS GONNA BE SO USEFUL !!

[@JaimiQiu]

[@bffchannel9860]

This was actually mad helpful in comparing calarts and art center

[@JaimiQiu]

i'm glad this is helpful!! next time i plan to involve students from even more schools (potentially usc, risd, sjsu) so ppl can gain even more diverse info!

[@zillyzuwu]

thank you for making this!! it was incredibly helpful! one quick question: is it common for people in the character anim department to have pretty limited animation experience when they first are accepted? or are a lot of people already hobbyists? thank you once again !

[@JaimiQiu]

it's very normal to have limited animation experience for calarts! it's not even required for your application (i didn't put animation and i know a lot of my classmates didn't) but there are a couple classmates who specialize in it! do it if you enjoy it, but it's not required. your observationals/figure drawing is absolute number 1 biggest thing, they'll teach you how to animate once ur at school

[@em-qz6gu]

Tysm for organizing this q&a! It has answered a lot of things that I had been wondering about

[@JaimiQiu]

yayyy thank you for listening to it!!!!

[@zigzaq]

just listened through the whole thing and wanted to say thanks for making it! this was really insightful :) a huge help!!

[@JaimiQiu]

wow thank you for listening to the whole thing!!! it's so long such an amazing feat...... glad u enjoyed it!

[@bunnietofu5982]

This was SO helpful. Thank you so, so much! I havn't seen anything like this posted where all the questions are answered in depth. I've always wondered why ppl dont post their actual portfolio part of their calarts application- I would try to google examples to know a general gist of what they want and get stuck lol

[@JaimiQiu]

thank YOU for watching!! i’m glad this vid could be of help 👍 if you haven’t checked yet, i linked a google document in the description that links to many accepted portfolios! if you have further questions i’m happy to answer :D

[@izbybun]

Thank you sm Jaimi & co!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@JaimiQiu]

:D

[@PINKMINK.]

Thank u guys so much for this, it is soooo helpful!

[@judah99online]

THANK YOU SO MUCH?!!?

[@Tarikkb]

I’m currently in that calarts or bust mindset , I just can’t get out of it , I have this terrible feeling that if they reject me then I’m not good enough for my dreams , which I know logically isn’t true cuz not all the animations and directors I aspire to went to calarts , but I just can’t help but to feel that way , and I hate that I’m letting a school weight my self worth cuz I applied this year but after applying I realized what art was to me so now I’m in a better mindset to draw and have that connection that I didn’t have while applying back in 2022 , but if I apply again next year I’ll be 22 as a freshman and I feel like I’ll be too late

[@JaimiQiu]

22 is not late at all!! actually it's pretty normal to be older in calarts, like half of the people our major are in their 20s-30s! in fact i would argue that entering calarts older is actually a benefit because you're prepared for college/adult life vs students that came straight out of high school. also regarding the calarts or bust mindset: i totally understand.... i can say now as an attending student, the calarts admissions process is an extremely narrow evaluation of an artist's abilities. and it's good that you have a better mindset now, if i had been accepted on my 1st try i think i would've hated my calarts experience. so whatever path you decide, i'm sure your artistic journey will go well!

[@isabellacarvalho7469]

That helped me a lot

[@qeqeuna1440]

Thank you so much

[@qeqeuna1440]

I really need this 🥰🥰

[@JaimiQiu]

@@qeqeuna1440 Thank you for watching!!

[@vee8788]

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[@czeqer]

Do you guys have a discord server?

[@JaimiQiu]

I made a server to organize the calls for these videos but we don’t regularly talk in there, sorry :(

[@czeqer]

@@JaimiQiu oh haha, no worries 😆🙌

[@7karlheinz]

Art school canteen…I hate to break it to ya, but animation died with the demise of motion picture film.