I graduated from a liberal arts college not too long ago and want to pursue a career in visual effects. I have a 2d art background and have spent 2 years teaching myself photoshop in my spare time and reading books on composition and visual storytelling. I have taken a computer animation course in which I learned modeling and rendering and lighting, although I always got irritated with the fact that the class wasn’t geared towards producing high quality complex images, since it was for beginners. I wanted to be able to produce cg graphics that were on par with my drawing ability.
I want to attend Gnomon School for to or 3 years to make up for my lack of technical knowledge, since I went to a liberal arts school that prides itself on not teaching technical skills.
Taking a computer animation course in which we used Maya I found that I really enjoyed rendering and lighting and composing shots, but not so much animating objects in an exaggerated way, I tend to prefer realism even if fantastical.
I’m trying to figure out what vfx path I should take knowing that my artistic eye is pretty good from being a good 2d artist and my knowledge of photoshop and as well as knowing what I enjoyed from taking the computer animation course. If you guys could give me some suggestions of what vfx path I should take and what it would be required of me that would be great. Or if anyone could list all the jobs that make up the vfx industry and what it entails that would be great as well.
Thanks!
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