I am frustrated with schools art department of late at UNM. Almost all the professors value traditional artwork (like hand painted work, etc) and disregard any sort of digital art regardless of the quality. Also, I noticed that the teachers value in promoting "imagination and creativity" through abstract art. I understand fine art is good and so is abstract art, but simply just teaching that is ridiculous especially since most of them hate commercial art of any type. Even classes that teach electronic arts are focused on abstract absolutely useless SHIT. They want to promote creativity, but before people can do that they need to know the basics or software necessary to promote creativity.

They are also trying to push away the little 3D animation and modeling classes away from the art and into the computer engineering department (tbh, Maya and 3DsMax is more art oriented than engineering.

I talked with the students in the art department and most want to do video games or want to be concept artists. In my opinion with the way the school teaches, unless people try to learn themselves there is no way anyone will ever get hired in a game company or like Pixar here unfortunately. The school is establishing a IFDM (interdiciplinary film and digital media) to help promote doing more digital commercial art, but the professors there are trying to also push this abstract garbage it is ridiculous. To make things worse the computer engineering side of IFDM promoting video game development and animation film isnt getting any funding rather they want to make a new building rather than trying to help build useful departments. Also I even hear some professors wanting to put in a course on old WWII films into this.

I am so sick of this abstract promotion crap. Okay ill shut up now.