- Fri May 25, 2007 7:54 pm
#228013
My CG education? None formal, actually. It started just as a hobby, playing around with FormZ and ElectricImage. But to get deeper into it, what I did was try and recreate shots I liked from films, and I started subscribing to CineFex, and the first online forums for this stuff, and just talking, asking a billion questions, etc. Then when I started actually doing it professionally, I just hung around better guys and asked how they did stuff.
The most important thing by far, though, towards truly getting better is actively seeking out criticism and taking it. You have to remain objective about your work, and this is something that I see about 99% of people utterly failing at. If your goal is to produce good work, then you the person - your ego, your feelings, etc - must take a distant back seat. If you're looking for someone to stroke you all the time for your work, you'll find it, and probably won't get better for it. That's my #1 piece of advice for anyone (for anything, actually). The best feeling of pride in the world is knowing you're actually good at what you do, because you could completely listen when you weren't.
_Mike
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