We are often asked which academic programs we recommend for students interested in receiving training in our industry. This is difficult to do, as the alma maters named by our employees number over one hundred.

Listed below are the colleges and universities most often named as alma maters by our staff digital artists and art directors:

• William Paterson College, NJ

• California Institute of the Arts, CA

• School of Visual Arts, New York

• Pratt Institute, NY

• Ringling School of Art & Design, FL

• Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada

• University of California - Los Angeles, CA

Listed below are the colleges and universities most often named as alma maters by our staff R&D programmers, systems administrators, and animation/pipeline set-up technical directors:

• Texas A&M, TX

• University of California - Los Angeles, CA

• University of Southern California, CA

• Cal State Northridge, CA

• Brown University, RI

• University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

An excellent resource for this field is:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGGRAPH
11 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 869-7440
http://www.siggraph.org

ACM SIGGRAPH also sponsors a conference on computer graphics every year around the end of July/beginning of August. It also maintains a database of related curriculum at the colleges and universities in the United States.

Good luck!