Techenical Artist - How to?

Hi all

I am a software developer with 5 years of experience. I am very much interested in animation field. I would like to know more about technical artists and training(if any). I tried some basic scripting in maya using pyhon and mel.
If anybody can guide me how to build a career in this field, that will be really helpful for me.

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