Hey everyone :slightly_smiling_face: - need your help: How did you learn Flame? Any schools/online courses/organizations/self-teaching methods etc. you would recommend to someone who wants to become a Flame artist?

What @andy_dill just said :arrow_double_up: I would only add that when it comes to self-teaching, tutorials are all well and good but you can’t beat doing an actual project. No matter how small. It will have elements that you can learn in a tutorial but it also has things you are compelled to stru…

To echo this, start with a little creative project, or some vfx shot you want to replicate. Have your creative goal determine the techniques you need to seek out and learn. Having that result-driven motivation is way more fun and inspirational than spinning up a bazillion tutorials in a vacuum. As @…

I brought home both sets of manuals , when it was two volumes of books and read them, then I played with the software and asked questions . I think I am only one of a very few people that probably read those cover to cover, yea I know I have problems.

Ha. They were real page turners. Great for insomnia.

Thanks for this @andy_dill ! Super insightful.

For me it was a sequence Worked my way that orange-red tutorial volume doing all the exercises Struggling with the software for a month with real projects (no priority editor and only 3000 PAL frames for storage) One week training session at Silicon Studio in London. (I skipped thursday, it was th…

The manuals were terrible when i was starting! i mean absolutely had no information/solutions in them! I taught myself in a place that was fast paced but allowed a lot of creative freedom so i could experiment a ton. That was Foxtel in oz, a tv station, but then when i went to a proper commercial vf…

All I can answer to this is my own relatively unconventional experience. Started in motion graphics, After Effects and C4D - that kind of thing. Got recommended by a friend to an editor who was intent on buying a Flame. Rocked up and got told I had a couple of weeks to figure it out, but if I cou…

Wrote a long reply but most of it was just reminiscing which is probably of no use whatsoever. I still don’t know how to use flame. I’m constantly amazed by things that people do. I have a couple of tricks that get me through the day and still fly by the seat of my pants. Every day is a learning…

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