Thanks for the info.
Im not going to college for CGI though. Im more skilled with actual clay sculpting, mask making and so on for movies. I was thinking maybe ill go to a school afterwards that teaches CGI but im not sure yet. Im just a huge fan of movie making and I just wanted to cover all bases OF SFX.

As for CGI, ive been working with lightwave 3d for a few months and im still far from understanding how to do most of it. Zbrush, Ive only tried the demo but yeah its pretty complicated. 

Yeah ive looked into building my own pc before but I never know what im looking for. But i found a really cheap alienware one that i know will run all my programs so ill probably just go with that.