Renee Marsland - Brain Catalogue

So as mentioned in my prior post, this blog exists primarily as a place to help catalogue and talk through all things I am attempting to teach myself. And the major thing I am trying to teach myself is VFX technical stuff, as I am trying to work my way up into a TD job at the visual effects company I work at on my university holidays. I am currently a render wrangler/frontline support worker at Rising Sun Pictures, and as much as I love my job I would love to move up in to a position where I get to create things and solve problems. I am a computer science student at university, so I will undoubtedly post about the things I learn there but my primary goal is to teach myself the technical side of Houdini. Which means I will need to buff up on my python and hscript knowledge. As well as learn the inner and outer workings of Houdini. There is other software I will need/want to learn for the role but I have decided to start here, since it plays such a big role in the place I work. I ...

So basically I wanted to create a blog primarily as a place to keep all my thoughts about the things I am trying to learn. I am a very scatter-brained individual, one minute I am trying to teach myself the ins and outs of VFX pipelines, the next I am trying to teach myself web development. I am all over the place. But I have heard that having a place to talk through projects and the things I am trying to learn is a great way to not only document your progress, but a great tool for cataloging all the information you are trying to harvest and digest. So here we go. Lets see if I can keep this thing going. Turn it into a habbit to come here and write down the stuff I am consuming and trying to understand.