Academy Class Reviews

Having used ACAD for some years now, I thought I would be at intermediate level. However, having joined the course it was painfully apparent that there were some basic items of knowledge that I was missing and I would have been better starting again at the bottom. I suggest building some kind of level-assessment tool into the booking software.

I came into the course having 0 experience and after 3 days, I feel that I've learned a tremendous amount of useful skills to navigate the program efficiently.

Ben is a fantastic teacher - very patient and brilliant at explaining everything. He made the whole experience really really enjoyable.

Fantastic class with an amazing teacher. We learnt the basics and then went through various skills we might find useful, it was loads of fun and very interesting and useful.

Great course, highly recommend

Great course, would recommend. Bit of room for improvement, listed below.

I have enjoyed the course and have learned a lot. The teacher has been good. It's a lot of information to take in at such a short timescale though. The only issue is that the toilet facilities aren't very good.

Usually on courses like this, you're given handouts to follow a curriculum, and that you can refer to when trying things out at home. We've not been given anything, and we're starting each day without a clear understanding of goals and what's to be achieved or the likely outcomes for each day. Computers are slow and crash a lot.

Loved the training. Ideally I would have liked to spend more time on some of the more advanced aspects.

Hardware was not fit for purpose - crashed several times on Roto Brush Exercises (this unfortunately was the problem on the last course. Learnt a lot of new techniques - that will find useful but some repetition from last course (3D) (Ian was particularly helpful)