Reviews of professor Alex Damarjian

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
God bless him. He met with me weekly to help me get caught up not just in this class but in classes that he wasn't even teaching. He also gives really great feedback and since he graduated from our school understands what it is like to be a student.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of the best professors I have had. Lots of demonstrations and will help you learn more in-depth techniques if you ask. You have to show up for class and actually try to do your best. He gives so much help that if you walk out of his class with a low grade, it is your own fault.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took History of Animation with Prof Damarjian. I hate history but this class was fun. I really appreciate that he gave us alternative assignments. I am not a stronger writer and he really cut through the nonsense and focused on what was important animation.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He let me work with him on a project he is doing for medical VR company. I would ask him if you could help him work on one of his projects it helped me to get a job with a VR game company.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the best Professor I had since I started at Columbia. He really cares a lot. Whenever he finishes an animation lecture, ask him to demo the next assignment. I say this because if you only have him once, you will miss out on a wealth of information. So you can maybe squeeze a few more lectures out of him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a good dude. I really like his class and he has a lot of industry experience. One thing I would say is try to book time with him each week. All the other students in the class will follow him for feedback. I think because he is the only full timer with industry work.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Damarjian introduced Unity and other various programs. He gave a clear explanation of respective roles for the game development, including programmers, artists, and game designers, and assigned appropriate assignments for each role. In particular, he gave me instant feedback on questions and problems, which helped me a lot.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The semester I had with him had been really hard on me and my family. With the pandemic, family issues, etc. Professor Damarjian does these one on one meetings almost every class. Some of the other students sort of blew them off. For me they really helped me to stay on track in all of my classes. I also learned a lot from him and was able to pass.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I actually was a student of his at two different schools. The last school I was at shutdown, shady business practices. This made me depressed. Alex really helped me to get back on track and find a love of art again. He also has a lot of wisdom outside of art.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Damarjian was my Introduction to game development teacher. We did some pretty cool projects and I was pretty impressed at how he was able to help everyone out regardless of their major. Those professors are sort of single serving.