Hasta La Motion!

Hi all, well first of all,this is not a technical question.I need some advice from vets and noobs alike. Here is the thing.I in a middle of a crossroad right know and not sure what to do. I’m a self thought FX artist + Compositor.

I had and okay job right now. Its my first job and i’ve gone quite far since i graduated from animation school. I learn bits and pieces here and there ranging from MEL scripts to understanding compositing nodes. I worked on Maya, Combustion, AE and even Blender!

Recently Rhythm+Hues set foot on our tiny little country, so i kinda like gave it a try and applied for a compositor job. They offered me a training "apprentice pogram" in Roto. They wanted to get roto artists. I asked about things like compositing and effects. They said i can get into the company as a roto artist and work my way up.They told me that this apprentice pogram won;t gurantee a job with Rhythm.They have to evaluate my pogress and performance. I’m not the greatest artist out there but i do believe i will be able work up to it.

So i felt stuck. Both prospect seems ok. Just that one is "Famous" and the other is more obscure. I;m not the rockstar fame and fortune guy. I just wanna learn and try new things. Basically i really don;t know how i should move on. On my current job, i do have alot of areas to improve and i think i have to room to grow.We are doing low end stuffs. TV cartoons.Budget is tight,we find ways to make things look good enough.Not to fancy stuffs. My mates here are good. we basically have the same goals, we want to do our best.

Rhythm is a different path. I guess they are more organised and structured. Before i graudate from Uni. I did quite some research into the VFX industry. Seems like alot compositors start from jobs like Roto and wire removing etc. Perhaps i gotta go through this before stepping into more elaborate job like an FX artist or Compositor? to learn from the most basic process.This could be my break to get into bigger jobs as chances like this don;t come often especially here in Malaysia . Roto is a very daunting task isn;t it? 4k images 2k images. . hi-res footages. what if i sink in a good 2 years in roto and gain nothing out of it?its scary, i don;t know about you guys out here. I felt that roto is actually very monotonous and not that enjoyable. Some of my mates told be that match moving is even more interesting than roto, i’m not sure.They felt that i can do more than just roto, they think its a waste for me not to get something even better but instead starting from really low.

What do you guys think?

I hope you all can give me some inputs before i decide to do the leap of faith.Perhaps some of you can share some experiences dealing with situations like this

Cheers