The school is actually the Vancouver Film School and the program is at their 420 Horner campus. I made a mistake and thought that IDA was in Vancouver.
Give the MayaPLE a shot. It comes with tutorial videos so you can quickly learn the fundamentals of the interface and basic functions such as rotate, scale and pan. http://www.alias.com/eng/index.shtml
Kill.switch was an amazing game and had a killtacular commerical. Killzone on the other hand will be a fun shooter, but no Halo-killer. Breed is trying but will most undoubtedly come up short.
This game actually reminds me of Red Faction 2. Graphically, it resembles that game. I remember reading info on Red Faction 2 and anticipating its release. Sadly it wasn't all it was made out to be.
Truthfully, I'd never ever play a Halo 2 leak if it were ever to surface. Even if it were to be mailed to me in DVD-9 format, I'd never play it because of the simple fact that I'm waiting for the full experience. I did with the original and I will do it again. HDTV with 5.1 surround sound baby...
Halo is legend. Plain and simple. Killzone will be passed on as another Devastation if anything. But to try and be better than Halo, is completely idiotic and moronic. Sony is trying to hard. :) - But I will give Killzone a play. It looks nice.
I got the Halo 2 leak *snicker* - Yeah, my friends brothers uncles exgirlfriends husbands wife knows the guy who leaked it and they gave it to me. Too bad it runs in 3fps on my highly modified Xbox 2.
Hostile Freedom still lives. I would just like to point that out to anyone wondering where it went to. It seems as though we have been left out from the community. We are still around. :)
The Institute of Digital Arts is an excellent place. I will be attending there this year and hope to really get my foot in the door of the game or film industry. It's located in Vancouver. So if you were to attend you'd have to make the jump from the U.K to Canada. But if its for your future it...