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Because it is full of internets: (http://studentpages.scad.edu/~tfarre20/email_cart oon.mpg)

You might be interested in this spot. Made by a student no less.
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~eedwar21/firefoxweb. htm

Here's a nice computer-animated Firefox commercial made by some person(s) from SCAD.

Here's a nice computer-animated Firefox commercial made by some person(s) from SCAD.

Amen to that. Here at my art school, and I can tell you first hand that there are very few students at my school (pop: 5500 students) that are planning on going into buisness for themselves. Sure, some film students dream of indie work, and the Illustration students are planning on going into solo work (living job-to-job), but the rest of us are being prepared for work as part of a company. From 2d animators to 3d animators, from fashion designers to jewlery designers, from sequential artists to graphic designers, we all understand that we will most likely end up doing work for a big megacorporation, because that's the only way to make a living as an artist any more. Independent work in today's market simply can't survive -- thanks to companies like Disney, Microsoft, Sony, etc. I'm going into 3d animation, and while I'd love to work for Sony/Verant or Blizzard or Pixar, I'd much rather be able to do my own work or work for a smaller company (id, Valve, etc) and still make an honest living. If this media consolidation continues, artists won't be able to create anything without the blessing of a majour corporation. And media consolidation is the next logical step if this legislation gets passed...

~Aaron

It's funny you ask about developing for the PSX2. The school I'm attending offers game developement as a majour, and part of that course involves design for console systems. About four years ago the GD department purchased about 30 of the PSX developement stations for use in the program. What's really great about this, however, is that any student who is attending the school can sign out one of the boxes, just like a library; that is, any student can just waltz on in, present their id, sign on the line, and waltz on out with a PSX developement box to play with. Of course, the program has since STOPPED using those boxes, so they pretty much lie dormant most of the time.

The other problem with the boxes is that no one here knows how to program for them. We're an ART school, and our game design courses are more focussed on the artistic side of game developement, not the technical side. SCAD turns out GD theorists, level designers (we're the only art school in the country that offers a Master of Architecture), texture artists, modelers and animators (some students have gone on to work for Digital Anvil, Square, etc).

We've got something of a predicament here; we have a GREAT art department, but sadly we have no programmers here, and so the potential of those 30 boxes are more or less wasted.

This post is something of a followup to the topic: What should artists in a position like ours be doing? The potential for some beautiful stuff is there; any recommendations on a way to learn basic PSX programming to utilise that potential? Remember, you're speaking to an artist here; I know nothing of programming beyond very basic VB stuff =)

This post will probably never see +2, but any responses are appreciated.

~Aaron.
aabdel20@NOSPAM.student.scad.edu

You see, my school recently -- and I mean RECENTLY, as in this month -- got wired with some sort of high-speed access, and it is now installed in every dorm room. Unfortunately, the school has neglected to inform the student body of just HOW exactly this is going to work. Those who don't know much about computers (I'd guess about half of the student body) won't know to buy a computer with an ethernet card, because my school has released absolutely no information about what an incoming student should bring for a computer. No info. This is a school whose second largest majour is CG (after architecture) and we aren't being given any sort of reccommendation on hardware. Not even a PC v. Mac type deal (the school uses both). Nothing. Nada. We were just told, quite simply, to bring "a computer."

Just this evening a friend of mine who will also be going down to Savannah called me, long distance, from her home in North Carolina, just so her father could ask what she should bring. They know I have a bit of experience with computers, and wanted to know if I had any idea what they should bring. I emphasised that they needed an ethernet card, and of course had to explain just what exactly that IS.

What's worse, I emailed the school a week ago to ask what kind of services they'd be providing for students who ran minor servers ( My point is this: Mr Anonymous Ape, I imagine the sysadmins at Savannah are envious of your Sisyphean task. Not only do Savannah's sysadmins have to worry about getting an absolutely brand new network up and running (how can you stress test it for 5000 students over the summer?), but they will also have to deal with the fact that the student adviserment committee (or whoever) has neglected to mention anything about kind of HARDWARE students will need (I sure as hell hope they don't expect students to be Mac-addicts; but at this point, they might, and I'd never be the wiser!). This is going to be a rough transition for all of us (imagine, if you would, being suddenly thrust into a new world, without internet access of any kind... I never really realized how much I rely on my net access for normal communication). I will be very disappointed if snail-mail and long distance phone calls (Georgia ---> Mass) are my only options. Pity our sysadmins. =)

Good luck, BTW.

~A.