Quote Originally Posted by Miriel View Post
The best part of having a formal education in the arts is that you're constantly being forced to do new projects, to meet deadlines, to expand your horizons, and learn new techniques. And you'll probably learn at a much faster rate than you would if you tried to teach yourself. And especially for things like animation and film, you would have access to equipment and software that you probably wouldn't if you weren't a student.
That's true. Some of the film equipment I have used in school is hella expensive. This thing called the Libra head we used was $100,000 and that was just for rental. That's basically my entire four year tuition! So yeah, it depends on what you plan on going for. I have spoken to a few people working on the set of 30 Rock and all of them had college degrees -- though not all of them were film majors.