It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI

Re:It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use m... by berkut on Saturday September 19, 2020 @05:34PM (#24530467)

I'm not sure I'm afraid... I started programming when I was quite young, and have always been interested in it, and in terms of the VFX / Graphics industry, I've only been involved in that for the past 10 years, before that I was in other industries, so I really stumbled into doing it.

All the graphics / VFX knowledge I now have is self-taught (other than learning off colleagues) as well as experience working in the industry.

I'd say learning how to program is a good starting point, if you are really interested in graphics it's probably a good idea move into low-level programming (C,C++,CUDA) that's used in the HPC realm, because often the code will need to be extremely optimised. However, you can still do cool things in a higher-level language.

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Re:It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use m... by tempnowreal on Saturday September 19, 2020 @11:58PM (#24531783)

Thank you. I've always felt this is a niche field and hence not may resources are available online.

Thanks a bunch for your output :)

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