[Guenevere]

There are still some excellent art schools...my son graduated from one 5 years ago and is doing quite well as a computer animator.

His school had/has a good foundational/basics class, and it has held him well with job interviews and positions.

Also, he found his own recognizable style, without resorting to weird stuff.

[turbocat]

Where did he go to school. My teenager is quite adept at that stuff, and would love to know a recommendation.

[SoCal Pubbie]

"my son graduated from one 5 years ago and is doing quite well as a computer animator."

Well, there you go. A lot of excellent art is done in the fields of animation, illustration, graphic, commercial sculpture, and industrial design. I am the latter, and have been doing it professionally for a quarter of a century now. I went to art school a long time ago but we had to learn perspective, rendering, color theory, art history, and a whole lot of stuff that wasn't just sticks and rubber chickens.