My final film at VFS created with fellow student Dennis Crawford. I first got the taste for location designs that would lead to my love of matte painting. All Backgrounds in this filial were created by me. Me and Dennis split the animation duties . For any student looking to get into Visual FX, I would suggest looking into going to art School, or Classical Animation.
Artistic ability is the most important part of an effects artist.
If you want to go into 3D the I would defiantly recommend classical animation first.