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In this series of NUKE tutorials, we will learn about the physics of light travel inside a real camera lens and how to apply those effects to our own projects in NUKE. We will start by quickly learning about the various pieces and elements in a camera and then learn a little bit about how light physically interacts with various materials through reflection, refraction and diffraction. From there we will cover optical problems or aberrations like vignetting, ghosting, lens distortion, field curvature, lens flaring, glowing, astigmatism, defocus, chromatic aberration and film grain.

Taught by Daniel Smith, this course is an intermediate level class that builds and adds to your compositing tool set. We will be using at NukeX 6.3 and using its new tools like the advanced particle system, warpers, denoise, and planar tracker. We will also use Ocula, Maya, and PFtrack to augment NUKE's powerful feature set.

Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you.

Building upon the popularity of our first After Effects project-based course, AFX208, we'll begin work on a new project from concept through compositing and design. For this project, we'll be creating a new animated show open in the style of programs such as "Top Chef", "Project Runway", and "Make Me a Supermodel". Leading the course will be Danny Princz, a New York City based artist who has taught several courses in the past. Also helping out will be Mark Christiansen, author of "Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques", and fxphd dean John Montgomery.

After I left Walt Disney Animation Studios back in 2007, I began working on the most complete animation training program ever. I recorded myself animating 18 shots from a beginner level all the way up to Advanced Dialog shots.

In this Softimage tutorial we will look at using ICE to create a motion graphics sequence. By taking advantage of the Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) in Softimage we will be able to create motion graphics faster and with better control than using keyframes or scripts.

From the Lead Animator of Matrix Reloaded, Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lew is one of the few real character animation classes on DVD. There are so many how-to videos on the market showing you how to setup a character or model a character in a specific 3D software package, but very few training videos showing you actually how to animate a character in 3D.

DCT-MP, BP, and LS: 20 DVDs That teach Filmmaking from Writing to Post. All DVDs feature: Motion Menus and Instant-Access Chapter buttons. The most revolutionary training course you will ever own. Over 30 hours of filmmaking savvy, wisdom, examples, demonstrations, tips and tricks, presented on 20 DVDs by people who work in Hollywood day in, day out. Learn Scriptwriting, Formatting, Editing, Camera Operation, Lighting, Exposure, Audio, and Directing, all focused on Digital Movies.

This course is aimed at the intermediate 3D software user, and is intended to introduce 3D artists to Character animation workflow in a 3D application. Taught by Kai Pedersen primarily in Cinema 4D, the program is intended to be platform agnostic, utilizing on common tools and workflows found in most 3D applications while focusing on theory and workflow. There are no small exercises to cover the basic principles of animation here; this course will cover a complete shot from start to finish. Users will learn to think about their shot, plan ahead, act out and study reference, before diving in and working through each stage of animation from blocking through to a completed shot

This term, to mark our 10th Background Fundamentals, we’ve got a blockbuster in store for fxphd members. Throughout the term, we’ll look at what it means to be a Visual Effects Supervisor. What are the pressures, the roles and how do you manage a large Hollywood film?

In Intermediate Fume FX, we jump right in the deep end, initially introducing a lot of the core concepts behind Fume FX and how Congruent Solvers work - such as Fume FX, Phoenix, Maya Fluids etc. all work. These Fundamental Subjects Are Crucial to Understanding fluids, as well as Getting More Hands on in Learning the initial steps to How Fume FX Works, as well as IT's interface and a lot of IT's Powerful Key features.

RealFlow 5 has become a commonly-used fx tool for film and commercial production, dominantly for creating fluids like water, blood and molten chocolate, but ncreasingly for complex rigid and soft body dynamics. Out-of-the-box, it can create beautiful, organic animations driven by physics, and with some practice and nowledge, artists can achieve astounding, high-end, art-directed visuals at the cutting edge of visual effects.

This course aims to provide a basis for Maths for the Artist that says “If I’d known Maths would have been central to effects and animation I would have paid attention in school!” Mike Seymour works through the major areas of maths that are useful to understand for visual effects and animation. This really is a maths course, teaching you both actual maths and the principles of areas of maths in more advanced areas. The aim is to equip you with the tools you need and to demystify the jargon – so you can understand the principles and approaches we use maths for everyday in production and post.

Professional animator and author Lee Lanier takes you behind the scenes to show you essential digital compositing techniques in this practical guide for professionals and aspiring artists in the visual effects, feature animation, or commercial production industries. Lanier taps his own experience at Walt Disney Studios and PDI/DreamWorks, as well as the skill sets of dozens of other professionals, to provide the latest techniques.

These lessons are narrated on the integration of the two leading programs in the 3D industry Vue 7 and Cinema 4D, on how to paint the ecosystem in the blue and how to customize the light, and GM ambent how to mend a proxy geometry for the dynamic iteration, and so on. What elements are constructed in Vouhe and controlled in Blue ... In general, would not be bored. Here are present and Project files)) If love do not forget to press a button

Camera Tracking with Syntheyes, Part 1
Tracking and Optimizing
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Have you ever thought about using your talents, training and equipment to design moving images to tell a story? Here is your opportunity to learn how to become a visual storyteller with Jeff Medford and Ross Hockrow. Whether you're a photographer or an aspiring filmmaker, you will come out of this class with all of the skills to produce web commercials, wedding, birth, family and event films.

The technology behind the America’s Cup live broadcast.- The Advances behind the newly released GoPro Hero 3- 35mm film workflow- on set protocol- Spherical Harmonics- LIDAR Scanners- Canon CN-E and Carl Zeiss Compact Primes- ILM Visual Effects Battleship supervisors

In this value-priced multi-pack, you’ll get Jeff Foster’s popular green-screen courses Green Screen Workshop: The Setup and Green Screen Workshop: The Shoot.

VFX Techniques introduces common yet critical visual effects techniques that are used in film and television shows on a regular basis. This installment shows how to simulate a large crowd by combining live-action footage of a small group of people, 3D renders, and Adobe Photoshop artwork—transforming an otherwise empty building into a rapt audience.