1. Very small class sizes. Our classrooms are setup for eight students only. Each student gets a tremendous amount of one on one with the instructors and gets to know their classmates very well. 2. Dedicated work stations. Each student is assigned a state of the art work station that will be theirs for the duration of the semester. Any time they come to school it will be waiting for them and no one else will use it. Students regularly leave IPods, wallets, Cameras, and even money on their desks overnight. We have never had a theft. 3. The very best instructors. Our advanced animation instructor worked on Star Wars, Jurassic Park etc. Our character design Instructor does Spiderman, Hulk and Wolverine covers for Marvel. He also writes Spiderman. Our Lighting instructor worked on I Robot and The Davinci Code. Plus we have many many instructors working on Major video game titles and TV shows. There are no "teachers", just professional artists teaching what they know. 4. The best Equipment and Software. Think Tank has all LCD monitors. In 2nd and 3rd semester you get dual monitors. Widescreens in 3rd. We teach Software nobody else has yet. The industry asks us to train their artists because we're the only ones that can. Think Tank has its own "renderfarm". No other school does that we know of. Our video cameras are HD. Our machines have lots of Ram and fast CPUs. 5. Personal Mentors. In the final semester students are assigned personal mentors from local studios. If you want to work on Environments for EA, we hire someone from EA that works as a lead environment modeler to coach you through your demo reel. He meets with you each week and critiques, teaches new techniques, and generally guides you to a successful demo reel. 6. Continued support. Once you finish your year with us, if for some reason you don't get a job, you may stay and continue to study for free with a dedicated station for as long as you want. Nobody else offers that kind of support. 7. Cost. We are the most reasonably priced program that offers this kind of quality training. Compare us with anyone and you'll see the difference. 8. Job placement. At this time we have 100% placement for our animation students, and 90% for modeling students. Other schools will make these claims but can they prove it? We can! Our students are being sought by studios all over the world. |