VFX education is a very hard topic to bitch about :) You'll need a computer, yes, and if you're honest and not too poor, you can get the software and courses legally. If you're not so honest or too poor, you can get everything for free. Forums where people all over the world can critique your work - the second ingredient in education - are free and people write on them 24/7. I don't really see any other field where you can get good education totally for free, investing just your time and effort. So we can't complain really.
One important thing not noted in your article - understandable, since you wouldn't like pesky foreigners like me taking westerners nice jobs away, hehe, is that an actual degree from an actual university is very important for immigration officials, if one wants to move from the east to the west.
Cheers ;)
Glacierise (a.k.a. Hristo Velev) said...
http://effectscorner.blogspot.com/2010/09/price-of-vfx-education.html
