I've found myself looking up a lot of MEL scripts lately mainly for the purpose of automating repetitive task, or just grabbing a script to make a hotkey from. It's always more difficult than it could be because I don't really understand how programming languages operate. Besides this, are there any big benefits a…
+1 for taking the Python route. You'll end up learning mel along the way, because most of the python interface is a wrapper for mel commands. But it gives you access to a lot of awesome amazing python tools and libraries so it's well worth it. The important thing is to keep the context of your python learning grounded in…
+1 for python over mel. Knowing some basic scripting is always going to be helpful at some point. Those little automation scripts can sometimes mean cutting some tasks from hours to minutes. For uses as a character artist, maybe you'll end up at a small studio or don't have a TD you can call on. Maybe you'll need to manage…