california: Well, I'm planning to work in animation later on and the top 3 companies that I want to work for are in California. Pixar, Dreamworks, and Disney. The studios are all in California, but does that mean I actaully have to move there? I really, really don"t want to. What suggestions do you have?|||Not that you have go to some location to become a graphics animator, but you eventually would have to go to location when working for any company, to learn and train, you want to go to choice of Animation colleges in your area, from there you create portfolio, and explore the work field and locations, If you eventually work for company in Chicago, or Vancouver, UK, et cetera,, the projects may be outsourced to that company for creating or rendering, and compiled later on site, Google Maps > http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_鈥?/a> DREAMWORKS ANIMATION http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/ Industrial Light & Magic http://www.ilm.com/ RenderMan Studio https://renderman.pixar.com/products/too鈥?/a> Avid Media Composer 5 http://www.avid.com/US/products/media-co鈥?/a> Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ LightWave 10 http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/ Autodesk Maya http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/鈥?/a> Toon Boom Animation http://www.toonboom.com/main/ Crater Animation Software for Cartoon Creation http://www.cratersoftware.com/home.html ..