Any good schools in Seattle?

[Alzuna]

Figured here was the best place to ask, thinking of moving there sometime soon.

An internet search only yields the Art Institutes...which honestly aren't even worth it in my opinion, Cornish College of the Arts and then from the list here I found Northwest College of Art, opinions on these two? Any good? :D

Thanks!

[burning_chrome]

I can't vouch for the school one way or the other, but look into Aristides Classical Atelier (http://www.aristidesarts.com/)

The quality of the students' works (http://www.aristidesarts.com/atelier/studentwork.htm) certainly impresses.

[Alzuna]

Yes, very impressive indeed, I'll definitely have to look into that, thank you! It doesn't seem too expensive for one workshop either. :D

[burning_chrome]

You might also want to check out the atelier program at Gage Academy of Art (http://www.gageacademy.org/adult/?page=atelier) :)

Good luck on your move to Seattle!

[mbarq]

Not quite sure what you're interests are. But if it's anything in animation or game design, you might want to look into https://www.digipen.edu/. They aren't in Seattle, they're about 45 minutes away in Redmond.

I know a couple of years ago before Nintendo sold its lot to Microsoft and their NOA HQ was there, digipen had incredibly close ties with Nintendo. Not sure anymore since Nintendo moved down to Silicon Valley. If your interests are Animation and Game Design, I would really consider digipen.

Do note that if you try for game design, their program is not just messing around with some kit, these people actually program their stuff, so know your math before you get there. Not sure about their Animation program (quite new I believe), but...it can't be that bad considering their game dev last time I saw was really nice.

FYI, the people who made Portal graduated from there. So....you know that school has to be good if something like that came out of there :) As a result, from what I've read, digipen now has close ties with Valve.

So, check it out if animation/game dev is your thing.

[Alzuna]

Metalclay, Thanks! I'm kind of at that stage where I'm not 100% what I want to do, I'm interested in illustration of course but I could do anything with that. Thanks for the info, I had no idea a place like that was Washington! I'll definitely look into that as an option. :D

burning_chrome, thanks again!