VFX FUNDAMENTALS
COMPOSITING BASICS
Learn VFX skills and foundations to develop as a technical visual effects artist, with a strong emphasis on look development concepts and processes. You work collaboratively with cross-discipline artists and work with the patent-pending AMP™ studio production pipeline to become familiar with a modern, asset-based workflow.
Compositing Basics
CLASS 03
Class Length:
12 weeks
Class Price:
$2,799 *
*$75 registration fee and $99 lab fee apply
Description:
Work with a mix of live-action and CG elements — to provide a critical understanding of the complete VFX production process, participating in both lighting of elements and final assembly of the composite. This is invaluable experience as compositing has become the focal point of many film studios and the production process as a whole.
Learn VFX Compositing:
- Understand the process and fundamentals of VFX compositing.
- Integrate live-action background plates and CG elements into a fully realized finished film sequence.
- Understand and thrive in a sequenced-based learning environment.
Collaborate, Projects, and Assignments
- Use The Foundry’s MARI to paint and surface directly on model assets.
- Use The Foundry’s NUKE to integrate all necessary passes into a finished rendered sequence.
- Use Animation Mentor assets and production pipeline tools.
Prerequisite
Must pass Lighting Basics.
Note: A PC is required for the VFX curriculum.
Please ensure that you meet all Windows computer system requirements.
Minimum Total Hours of Instruction:
118 hours
What You Get:
- Access to The Foundry’s NUKE, MARI, and Solid Angle’s Arnold renderer.
- Production-ready VFX assets.
- Direct one-on-one feedback from award-winning lighting and VFX artists.
- A diploma in VFX Fundamentals upon completion of required classes.
Summer 2013: OPEN
VFX Fundamentals
Total Course Length:
36 weeks
Total Tuition:
$7,597
Application Due:
May 10, 2013
Registration Open:
May 6, 2013
Start Date:
Jun 24, 2013
MAY 24
SUMMER 2013
