Have you looked at the game design portion of computers? http://www.igda.org/about You have to design those backgrounds, albeit not quite "graphically" :-) and a game is kind of a video of sorts. I was an instructional designer for 2-3 years, wrote simulator courses, and though more computer than graphics has a lot of broader stuff that was good background for me to shift around within later. Maybe some game design background would help you and be more fun than what you're doing?