VFX FUNDAMENTALS
LIGHTING 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.
Lighting Basics
CLASS 02
Class Length:
12 weeks
Class Price:
$2,799 *
*$75 registration fee and $99 lab fee apply
Description:
Learn how to convey an idea centered upon visual storytelling using light, shape, and color. Lighting Basics bridges lighting concepts for CG feature animation (think fully-composited VFX, such as Up) with lighting for feature VFX (think integration with live action, such as Avatar). These are similar, overlapping skill sets and workflows that you will resource and develop in later VFX studies.
Learn VFX Lighting:
- Apply the fundamentals of cinematic VFX lighting design.
- Utilize modern HDRI lighting workflows.
- Match the lighting in a live-action plate.
- Understand and thrive in a collaborative sequenced-based production environment.
Collaborate, Projects, and Assignments
- Light with live-action background plates and CG elements.
- Set up lighting and render assets for compositing.
- Use Animation Mentor assets and production pipeline tools.
What You Get:
- Access to The Foundry’s NUKE 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
Prerequisite
Must pass CG Basics.
Note: A PC is required for the VFX curriculum.
Please ensure that you meet all Windows computer system requirements.
