Getting into Gnomon

So today I went to see Brian who is the head of student services at Gnomon. I tried originally to get into 3 year program (Entertainment Design & Digital Production)  but was not able to because I was not good enough. It hurt… A lot… because I spent ~5 months working on my submission portfolio and the thing you don’t want to hear is your not good enough espetioly when they did not tell you WHY.

So I set out to find out WHY I was not allowed in and in turn I decided to pursue the 1 year program to get better at my fundamentals called “Entertainment Design” track which is a discount rate of the first year of the 3 year program so not all is lost. So I went to see Brian who was SUPER nice and helpful and in the end he brought up some great points. I also recorded this interview with him so you can listen to it and learn from it also J The long story short is that I needed to study the fundamentals and develop them more I have the creativity and I have skill he said but I needed to bring all these elements together. I will keep seeing him each term to check in and show some work to see what direction I need to go to get into the 3 year program which will be just 2 years as long as I get a B- in all my classes then they transfer over and the price is discounter on the classes. It will be more money in the long run but at the same time it’s what I want to do to get BETTER.

Here is the images I submitted for my portfolio and also the audio file for the talk we had together I will try and clean it up some time when I don’t have so much homework I need to get done. Any ways the long story short if you’re going to apply for gnomon and want to know what to show in your portfolio is this:

1) Stick to traditional means you can pain in Photoshop just don’t throw at them your 3D work they can teach you that what they want to see is your traditional skills with your Artist Identity put on it.

2) Don’t be afraid to talk to their admissions staff set up a meeting with them and show them your work and get feedback asap. There all there to help and want to see you succeed and they will brutally honest with you from the get go. Suck it up and take the time to really have your work shredded to pieces in front of your eyes.

 Crap I lost some of my portfolio :( Computer hard drive FAILS! So here is some of the pieces that survived my computer drives death that I backed up on my NAS:

Now remember you can submit 10-15 pieces... always do the more and always do the BEST.WORK.EVER no half ass stuff.

Here is the adio file of the talk with Brian: