This post is a little bit hypothetical, but its been a niggling question so I'm going to ask it.
All my life, I've wanted to be an animator, and all my life, I've been into drawing, designing, making up stories and that fun stuff. Unfortunately, I was told repeatedly by family that doing an arts subject wasn't a good thing to do-my dad did an arts degree and it got him nowhere. I was also made to feel somehow defective as a teenager for wanting to see Disney films and buying obscure animated films instead of the bombastic love affairs that were popular at the time.
So now I am 25, with the passion kicked out of me I guess, and I am studying Social Work. I love it, although I am only in my first year, and I think I will be a very good Social Worker-but it isn't my passion. I haven't let anyone know about this, but I've started obsessively drawing again and I am building a portfolio. My plan is to qualify, do my AYSE year, work as a Social Worker and then apply for an Animation MA, possibly part-time whilst I can continue to work. I'm a grown-up and I don't need permission.
However, there is the issue of most universities requiring Animation MA students having a degree in Arts. I have no art qualification at all, not even a GCSE as I wasn't allowed to take it. If I have to go back and do qualifications again, then I will do so begrudgingly, but does anyone know of anyone undertaking an Arts MA without having an undergraduate qualification in a similar subject?
Thanks
