College Animation Class

I am in my second semester of animation at college. We are 4 weeks into school and we have not done any animating yet! How frustrating that is. The class is divided there are some 3D modeling students in the class and some animation students, some are first semester and some are second semester. We have done no 3D work and no animation. The professor is teaching us a Microsoft product to produce tutorials in 3D so he can get grants! The whole class is unhappy and several are talking about going to the dean of the department to discuss what is happening.

I hate the class because I am not learning the animation I wanted to learn. I am learning some fun things but they are not part of animation and that is frustrating. I paid good money to take my animatioin skills (in Flash) to the next level and the prof wants me to create tutorials? You have to know - well - what you are going to create a tutorial on.

And if I went to any of the professional companies and said well I know a little flash but I know Microsoft PowerPoint and Producer - they would laugh in my face! They are not considered the programs of the professionals. Aghhhh. Anyway I think I carried on about this once before.

So the whole class is thinking of protesting. Life is never dull in my household!