So.... I had to start somewhere. After asking where to start learning the art of Visual Effects at the
vfxtalk forum I got plenty of usefull links to online training, book recommendations and other tutorials. I think, to get started, is always the most difficult thing when beginning to learn something new.
With the decision made to invest some good money in my new hobby or if you will my education, I started.
Before I even touched one of the Visual Effects software like Houdini and co., I've read through following books, just to get a good overview of what it is all about:
I also watched trainings of
fxphd,
Steve Wright, youtube and
Visual Effects for Directors just to get a good overview of what the different aspects of "digital compositing" and "visual effects" are.
It turnes out that I didn't only get a good overview of how everything works together, I also figured out that my real passion isn't creating Visual Effects like I thought, no, it's digital compositing!
Now I feel comfortable enough to open Nuke (the software I decided to stick with) and start practicing. I'll work my way through the book
Digital Compositing for Film and Video and the fxphd trainings again, but now I'll not only read them, I'll learn it!
