A good start would be reading forums, buying books, watching tutorials, reading the manual, playing around with demo versions or learning editions of various softwares
look into digitaltutor, fxphd, gnomon online
read The VES Handbook of Visual Effects to get an overview of the industry standards
ps: I asume you are talking about visual effects, not (practical) special effects 😉
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