Do you need a formal education for FX?

In this video I cover the question: Do you need a formal education to become an fx artist and where to find great learning resources on your journey.

Resources covered:
Sidefx - Getting Started: https://www.sidefx.com/learn/getting_...
Cgwiki: https://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki
Entagma: https://entagma.com/
Odforce Forum: https://forums.odforce.net/
Sidefx Forum: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/
Fundamentals of CG playlist:    • Fundamental CG Concepts  

Additional great general learning resources:
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/
MIT - open courseware: https://ocw.mit.edu/
Stanford: https://online.stanford.edu/free-courses

00:00 Intro - Do you need formal education for FX?
02:01 Houdini Operators
03:37 Help for nodes
06:54 Sidefx - Getting Started
08:50 Sidefx - Tutorials - beginner
11:43 Labs tools and digital assets
12:55 Example files
13:54 Ignoring Houdini Operators
18:12 Sidefx - Tutorials - other
19:03 Sidefx - Industry talks
20:26 CgWiki - general
24:48 CgWiki - vex
25:33 Entagma tutorials
26:36 Odforce Forum
27:48 Sidefx Forum
28:16 Overview
28:44 Formal education
30:40 Review
32:20 Fundamental CG concepts
32:54 Outro

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