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Last I checked there were a few different art schools in Canada.... it just depends what you want to do as to where you look (and what your price point is) Though I can no longer attest for the Uof W's theatre and film being top notch since it's now changed drastically from when I was there.
ALSO oddly enough it wasn't until I went to Mount Royal in Calgary that I discovered design for theatre and film is not a college course like every other design course in Canada... it's a University only course and a lot of them are not listed as such and it's a hunt to find them. So seriously search everywhere because at the time Mount Royal sent their design students after 2 years to learn at a different University for the actual design after they 'learned construction'. And the University they were sending to when I looked it up at the time (Athabasca I think) and it was nowhere NEAR University of Winnipeg in the standings (U of W at the time was top 5 in Canada... top 10 in North America and that was including the Royal Conservatory for Theatre and all the Major art schools that have theatre and film courses)and I didn't need to learn how to swing a hammer for two years (farm girl that was not rubbing me the right way... and seriously the prof at MR said I would have to learn how to swing a hammer even though I knew how to build an entire house to code)
Actually I live in Quebec, which made my ' search for art school ' much more difficult , being the "Francophones who want to keep their culture so badly" , we have a entirely different education system. Thus , I did not know that I could apply to Uni yet , since we have cegep, which is kind of like an extensive 2 years pre-college courses [ Sometimes 3 years]. Most obviously, I searched for schools in my province , and found no ' Art School major' , only Uni which the Design course as an option and the U requires the cegep years [ And apparently no portfolio? ].
I'm just pretty damn confused because of Quebec's system compared to the rest of Canada because of the French to English translations.[ so please bear with me if I sound very ignorant]. Now that I know better , I did search for outside my province , and I did find some pretty decent schools I could go to, even then I'm pretty worried about how they are in reality , since can't just pop there to visit the schools. Canada ,why must you be so big ?
The north side seems to be more Art college populated.Hmm
Also , quick question , in most accepted portfolio's I saw , there was a majority of traditional media rather than digital , why ? Is it acceptable to submit digitally drawn artwork , if so , by what ratio ?
Also, some portfolios requirement demand a sketchbook, typically, how many pages must a sketchbook have ? And would it be okay to make a ' collage of sketches' for a sketchbook ?
Yes I'm a total noob.