Schooling for digital production

[unclefarkus]

Hey all,

I am a rising 4th year architecture undergrad with no interest in actually pursuing a masters, but I do love a lot about architecture and want to do something related, just not an actual architect. Particularly digital production regarding architecture that many of you seem to do as a full-on career. My question is, as I am to be looking at grad schools soon if necessary (I'd really rather NOT continue in schooling), what the best path for this would be? I have built a decent rendering PC and have been spending a decent portion of free time learning Rhino, 3DS Max, Vray, Photoshop as much as possible. My designs are probably lacking in thought often times as I spend more time making them look pretty than making sure they are logical spaces

 

I have seen threads similar to this before, and often times it seems the advice is to just get better and dupe images etc. Is that really the ideal way? Would a masters in Digital Production Arts or something along that route benefit me greatly in the field or is it really just up to what kind of work you can output? I hope to start a family not too far down the road, and want to make sure my job is somewhat steady (lol in this economy, right?) and that I won't regret not doing grad school later when it's more difficult to do.

 

All in all, I want to do renderings and animations for a live. I don't want to go to grad school. But I am willing if it is worth it. I am open.

 

Thanks for the advice and opinions

This forum really motivates me and has helped me to know where I want to fit in the world of architecture.

[Stan Zaslavsky]

my advice would be - get started and show us some of your work so we can help you improve by providing critiques

 

you'll soon find out whether this career is something you want to do for a living or not