Housing

• Try somewhere near the scad buildings or Kroger you should be good

• Somewhere near Arnold, Anderson, Eckburg, or Forsyth park would be ideal

• FB Page SCAD Students Needing Roommates​

• FB Page Housing, Sublets & Roommate for students of Savannah College of Art and Design​

• ​Furnishing: Free & For Sale​

• ​Furnishing: Free & For Sale : Onwards and Upwards​

Profs

• What professors to take: https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ or word of mouth

Communities

• Join MOMELOVE (Sav) facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/momelove/​

• Join MOMENTUM (Atl) facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scadmomentum/​

Tools

• ​Course Sequencing Custom Google Sheet​

FAQs

Why should I go to Savannah?

• More professors, classes, resources

• Stronger community & MOMELove Student Club

• Career Fair

Environment

Software

• ​Maxon one — Cinema 4D, Red Giant Plugins, Redshift Renderer, Cineversity

• ​Houdini Apprentice​

• ​Office 365You get 1 TB of free online storage and the online versions of Office. Some schools also provide the Office desktop apps via an Install Office button on the home page.

• Boris FX plugins

Software — school

• Redshift render is available on PCs : room 109/ the shed

• No Octane renderer available

Discounts

• ​Vimeo 50% off​

• ​Squarespace 50% off

• ​Namecheap domain name Free

• ​Madmapper​

File management

Accessing the Collaborative space intranet

For Montgomery Hall school computers

1. Finder > All > Sav-mt-proj > CollaborativeSpace

For other SCAD computers

1. In Finder, hit cmd+K

2. type in sav-mt-proj and connect

How to set up Collaborative space (only available via Montgomery Hall)

1. Using a SCAD computer at Montgomery, open a browser and access the School of Digital Media intranet (homepage)

2. ....

Setting up FileZilla FTP Client

1. Download Filezilla > Site Manager > New Site

2. Insert the following info:

Protocol: SFTP
Host: sav-myfile.scad.edu
user: scad student user
password: your password

Creating bookmarks

1. Go to Site Manager > Select your site > new bookmark

2. Select a folder on your computer for the local directory

3. Specify a remote directory eg. /I-Drive/Savannah/Webspaces/Studentpages/web_pages

Editing remote files with text editors eg. Atom

Other Automatic file synchronization software (Like Dropbox)

• Windows: FTPBox

• Mac: Sycany

Course Exemption / Substitution template

Events

CoMotion

Career Fair

Career Fair Tips from Professor Dominique (19 Feb 2019)

• Do not rely on WiFi. Have your work ready on your iPad/laptop. Just in case.

• Download the Career Fair Plus App.

• With the App, research the companies. You will be surprised how many are looking for Motion Designers. Get to know what they do.

• Look the part but wear comfy shoes.

• Don't forget your business cards.

• Bring mints. You'll be talking a lot.

Contests

• PromaxBDA

• The Rookies

• ADAA

Using the Montgomery Hall Render Farm

Documentation: https://sdm.scad.edu/render/sfdm-farm.pdf​

1. Transfer your workfiles to https://sav-myfile.scad.edu/myfile/ws-idrive/Savannah/SDM%20Render%20Farm​

2. Go to https://render.scad.edu/auth/submit/​

3. Select your file to render

4. Specify render settings, Renderman for Maya, Maya version

5. Go to Dashboard and view your render status

How do you measure success is the first question you need to ask? How far and how deep do you want your hero's journey to be.

A successful student is one that developing friendship with everyone around, and assembling his dream team of artists and designers. Think of this dream team like a company, a league of extraordinary designers & artists, the Avengers, the Expendables or whatever you want to call it.

Life management

• Successful (developing good friendship and collaboration with your peers to make great works)

  • Assemble your dream team and develop friendship

• Things you should be aware

  • Lasercutting is free in SCAD (at Fahm & Gulfstream)

• Project and time management / Getting things done

  • Parkinson's law

  • Google calendar

  • Gantt chart

  • Peter's principle

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