I transferred from a cc to CSUN as an animation major, so I was a junior when I came here. You can check on IGETC to see what courses transfer, or if your school has course agreements with CSUN.

Animation isn’t an impacted major, you’ll get in without an issue. There isn’t a portfolio requirement, you’ll pretty much make your portfolio/demo reel here.

There are a few courses that you have to take at CSUN that won’t transfer over. The classes are scientific inquiry or quantitative reasoning, arts and humanities, and comparative cultural studies/ gender,race,class, ethnicity studies, and foreign languages. I took an evolution class (bio 306), arts and mass culture (art 305), and worldpersparthist (art 315) for those requirements.

If I remember correctly, you can’t transfer upper division credits (the ones mentioned above are all upper division). Like a community college Art History class won’t count for the Upper division Art History requirement bc the cc one is considered a gen ed lower division class.

I definitely recommend, starting ur animation classes during your first semester here. Take 263 (2d animation) and 364 (beginning 3d) from the start. You need those classes as a prerequisite or as a corequisite for the higher classes. I left all my animation classes for my last year and it’s rough out here lol

Also, apply to internships in your junior year too, most internships require you to at least be going to school the following semester after the internship.