Ive decided to brave an online matte painting course at cg society. Its 8 weeks long and starts on march the 1st.i dont know if ill be going in over my head,there looks like lots of technical stuff,camera projection and some animation etc.but it will my first training proper i.e, not self study,in maya,photoshop,nuke etc.im quite excited and am going to try and give it my best shot.i hope its worth the money.