Jason Manley put up a post on Conceptart.org regarding art schools and education.  I thought it was incredibly informative. 

Below is the initial post by Manley.

Every year, this forum is filled with posts and comments about the realities of going to art school. I thought it would be smart to build up an FAQ for those who are going to be attending, created by those who have attended art school already (ie an faq which is created by people who have experience).

I will start.


1. Where you choose to go to art school is less important than bringing an attitude of "doing whatever it takes" to learn about art to where you are studying.

2. If you go to a big name school and just do the assignments, you will leave school with very little of value.

3. If you go to a little bitty school that anyone could afford and no one ever heard of but work your ass off, you will end up miles ahead of the brats at the art schools who are only doing their assignments and the normal minimal workload art schools require.

4. The schools will not hand feed you the information. You will have to take it from them. If one instructor doesnt know the answers, go find another one and get the answers from them. My best biz advice came from my illustration teacher and from the teacher who helped me to learn color theory. You never know who will have the answers...but you must push to find the questions that need to be asked. Dont expect it to be given to you with a silver spoon. It does not work that way.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/28/adobe-photoshop-video-tutorials-best-of/

Here is a link to some photoshop tutorials.  Many of them are youtube videos.  

It would be awesome to see students producing work of this caliber.  

Here is an interesting blog entry about developing for the Atari 400/800. Now I realize many of you were probably not born at the time this title was released.  However, this is the blog of one of the developers of that game.

What I think you will find of particular interest is the fact that even back then developers butted their heads with marketing people.  You will find yourself easily in situations not unlike the ones this guy faced.  It will either be a hardware issue or you will be forced to meet some ungodly deadline because some idiot made promises that you're going to have to keep.

Still, I find anecdotes like these to be a great insight and that they echo many of my experiences.

 http://incrediblehulk.marvel.com/

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1583143&vid=215625

Here is the trailer for the Incredible Hulk. It also includes trailers for new Lost Boys:The Tribe and Wanted.