CG Timesaver Guide - Second Edition

What’s Inside The Guide?

• What to study to become a character animator.
• What to learn to become a VFX Artist.
• What to learn become a Compositor.
• How to be a CG Generalist.
• What to learn to become a Technical Director (TD).
• What’s needed to become a Texture Artist.
• What to learn to become an environmental artist.
• The most common areas of CG and where the work is RIGHT NOW.
• What is the most common software used in the industry and what you should be learning.
• How to focus your time and energy to get good at what you want FAST without wasting precious time.
• How to figure out what path you want to take right now.
• A link to a resource you should to have to learn animation, and it will be with you your whole career.
• What’s better, going to school or self-teaching? How do you know which is best?
• What are the best schools for learning animation and where are they?
• A list of job boards to find the best jobs.
• A list of freelance sites to find the best gigs.
• Where to get free 3D models for your projects.
• Where to get great free textures.
• Where to find the best glossaries for CG terminologies when you really need to know what something means but don’t have time to Google it.