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Chromium

Double post baby :D

EJ

Song starts at 00:00: Me: what a bop, my favorite song, I love it

Emilia Saez

I don’t mean to bother you Jack but I was wondering what your opinions on the whole art school vs art major or minor at a regular university thing are. I am applying to schools very soon and a lot of people are saying art school is necessary to “‘make it” (I wanna be an animator) but I’m not sure if there really is that much of a difference (I’m currently taking some college level classes this summer at both types of schools). So if you could please throw down some knowledge as someone who’s “made it” I’d be mucho grateful.

Anonymous

Wow, that's a lot o' love

Jack Stauber

Hm. I've watched many peers go through art school, and anecdotally, I really can't speak to what benefit it has had so far as we are all getting started in the job force very recently. I had looked into various programs that combine art with marketing early on when I was in your position. I did this in hopes of finding a nice balance of the two, but as I got a feel for how I personally responded to assignments and the learning format of college I gravitated to more of a dry marketing-based schooling with plenty of driven exploration in art outside the classroom. I would have never been driven to learn some of the more boring things that I ended up pushing through that have opened my eyes to a lot of business lessons that I feel many artists are sometimes shocked to run into when they graduate. The independent artist needs an understanding of how business works. I’d worried earlier on that I’d lose a sense of art-orientation to the things I do if I kept learning business crap all the time but I don’t feel that I lost any of my art direction throughout college. If anything it gave me drive to pursue art harder. It was alienating and intense, but I don’t regret it. That all being said, art history can be very interesting and inspiring, and studio art classes can hone skills that people may not have the drive or direction to hone outside of the classroom. I probably would have never tried larger scale art if I hadn’t taken a drawing class in college, or touched charcoal (one of my favorite mediums to work with, now.) Plus monitored progress by a professor can be insanely beneficial. As opposed to a STEM field where different qualifiers like GPA and research have a lot of weight in terms of securing a job, art jobs (and creative forms of marketing work,) are typically more angled toward portfolio depth and presentable past efforts in that format. It’s crucial to be making things and building something presentable more than it is to get perfect grades. Higher education is an investment you make, though, and you spend a really large amount of money on it. A lot of people don’t seem to realize the fluidity of the typical college system/take full advantage of this. It’s stressful, but it’s a service you pay for and you should go in there and taste it and move the pieces around freely to benefit you best. Customize it. It’s yours. I changed my major/course of study plan probably somewhere around 5 times while I was at school. Lastly, I owe infinite amounts of personal success to libraries and independent curiosity-based studying. Everything is at the library. I’m not in school anymore but when I’m done typing this I’m heading there for a few hours. Best of luck with everything, and I hope this helps!

Anonymous

love your stuff stauber <3 can we work together on a short dialogue script for your next video?? :D

Anonymous

Love the work you put in!! Great stuff!

Hayzee

Ahh, love....it's...overstocked

Anonymous

jack stauber moment