Creating an Art Portfolio for the Game Industry

Very cool people, very nice instructor. And it's almost worth it just to go into the cool futuristic Microsoft building, depending on how far you are. The elevators go to the floor you need without pressing buttons, it's the closest I'll probably ever get to Hogwarts. But the info you'll get out of the class can be summed up in this actual quote: "If you've done lighting for, say, Pixar for five years, and you want to do lighting at someplace like, uh, say, Dreamworks, what you'll do is, is when you're writing your resume, you will put your *job title*, whether that's (misc. examples), and then under or next to it, the years you worked there in that job (misc. examples) and then you would write what the job tasks included, uh, *with words*. And that.. that will tell them you have the skills they're looking for, because if you were working there for that time then presumably you have some, uh, experience." This is unfortunately not 100% word-for-word because I waited until after the class to write it down, but it's as close as I could remember. Very little info, very few portfolio examples and the ones we saw were not examples to follow at all. I actually came out feeling more confident because I felt like the little knowledge I had before was more significant. Also, the class didn't have a break to chat or hang out, which would have been cool, and we unfortunately couldn't talk much afterwards since the building seemed to be closing at the end of the class. Overall, the price is low but I wouldn't say it's even worth the time. Go if you're gonna be around Times Square and want to see the awesome elevator after the wax museum, but this is a case of "you get what you pay for".