It's funny to read that question then immediately look at Tom Baker's face on your avatar.

Teague: If you weren't in the VFX business, what would you want to do?

Edit:
My name is Cameron. I spent the past year in University studying Engineering, and have subsequently discovered I hate it. I am now intent on studying Geophysics and will be starting that in September. I enjoy photography, science (specifically physics/astrophysics), music (played the piano since I was 3) and playing the odd video game (WoW among others.) I've started to dabble in amateur astronomy and astrophotography, and hope to move to Vancouver Island in the near future.

AMA.

I know, I'll regret this if only because I don't know when to stop. Cock it, here goes, please be kind-

My name is Jimmy and I'm a DiF-aholic......I'm 35 and when I was a kid I had many interests and aspirations. I loved comics (but British ones, I wasn't really into superhero ones) and wanted to be an artist. I used to quite good when I was a kid, especially copying characters (my Fred Flinstone was legendary at school....hey, it was the 80s). When I first started watching movies, I wanted to be a stuntman, I was quite the daredevil. I used to 'impress' other kids by jumping out of windows and shit I really shouldn't have done. I took it a bit too far one dy by getting hit by a car for real. Ok, it was an accident but it fucked my back up, I still get pain today. At high school, I did drama class for 2 years. I was the only guy in the class with 12 females. That was fun.  I am an atheist and was not brought up religiously in any way, shape or form. My dad left when I was a baby and my mum used to drink a lot (she was young) so I was brought up by my gran (who has since passed away) but my mum has since got her shit together and is the kindest most amazing person I know. 
I went to college at 21 and did Media Studies for a year and Communications for 2. I got praise and actual credit for my scriptwriting classes so I thought that was my calling. In the meantime, I put my 'stunt skills' and acting to good use performing in videos for others, my favourite was when I faked a load of 'goofs' for one video, falling down stairs and flubbing my lines etc. I still talk to some of the people I went to college with but none I went to high school with because they are a bunch of bullying cunts that made my life hell. I have worked in retail ever since leaving college except that 3 year period where I was unemployed.
I have a sister 15 years my junior and a foster sister. I have been mistaken for being gay too many times to mention. I still love 80s music, 80s film, 80s tv shows, especially the cartoons and I am a huge fan of Hanna-Barbera, cartoon voice artists and The Muppets. I cried when William Hanna, Joe Barbera, Jim Henson and Mel Blanc died. I make no apologies for my love for all those things. My new ambition is to be a podcaster.......

Oh, and I have a psycho cousin who has tried to kill me twice. Annnnnnnnd- go......

Oh, what the hell.

My name is Sébastien, and I'm three months shy of turning 21. After trying to study computer sciences, which I hated, I got into a VFX school called ArtFx last year, where I hope to be having tons of fun for the next three years. While I entered it because I always loved VFX, I wouldn't call this who I am, because I'd just love doing so many things.
I'm into music, progressive metal/rock styles (Dream Theater, Transatlantic, The Flower Kings, Neal Morse, Peter Gabriel), have been playing the electric guitar for six years now, drums for six months, never in a band but currently trying to start making covers of video games soundtracks.
I love nature, which naturally got me into loving astronomy, as a passion for years, but now as a summer job too. I do photography, mostly nature-related photography. Astrophotography is a part of it, and I've also discovered storm chasing, which led me to study a bit of meteorology.
I'm guessing, like Teague, I'll spent some years in the VFX industry, because that's what my studies are aiming me towards. But somehow I don't see myself entitled to one field forever, and I hope to be someday that kind of guys who do tons of stuff for a living. Hell, I sometimes find myself wondering what acting would be like, and I have a thing for cooking.

AMA.

PS: before Owen asks... standing up.

Alright, I think I'll play serious now.

I'm a 21 year old Film Production student from Liverpool, but I go to university in Preston. I'll be going into my second year in September, I'm looking forward to this as there is a year long module which involves making a feature film, but I'm not too sure which role I'm gonna pitch for as of yet. I've always been into films since I was very young and I remember asking my mum how they did the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. She had no idea, her answer was 'a special effects camera', to which I responded 'can we get one?'. I started a hard rock band a few years back and we did pretty well on the local scene, but I'm not to sure what the current status of the band is. I've never really had a job, the only proper paid work I have had was as a runner for a TV show a while back. With any luck though, I'll have some sort of work to tide me over for the summer soon enough. Oh yeah, I used to do some stand up comedy and I got into the finals of the 'Liverpool Young Comedian of the Year' competition in 2006, but I got beat by some guy in a hat.

So yeah, is that enough? AMA

May as well answer my own question before anybody else...I stand.

Owen, what TV show were you a runner for? And the guy in the hat that one the comedian competition, has he become known in the UK at all or has he vanished into obscurity?

Well done for reaching the finals, though, that is awesome