ost-Graduate in Visual Effects

FUNDAMENTALS OF VISUAL EFFECTS

Basics

• Visual Effects Production Pipeline
• Concepts and methods of 3D Modelling for VFX

Modelling

• Polygon  Surface  Editing
• Modifying and deforming geometry
• Set Modelling
• Primary and Secondary props

Texturing

• Creating Texture Maps
• Procedural  Texturing
• Bump mapping
• Shaders
• Background Texturing
• Texturing Animation                                   

Lighting

• Lighting Fundamentals
• Light types
• Attributes of Light
• Lighting objects & Shadows
• 3 Point Lighting
• Lighting a scene to matching the environment

Animation

• Set key
• Graph Editor
• Dope sheet
• Motion path animation
• Non Linear Deformers

Dynamics

• Rigid Body Dynamics
• Rigid Body Constraints
• Rigid Body Optimization
• Soft Body Dynamics

Particles

• Introduction to Particles
• Particle collisions and collision events
• The Flow Effect
• The Emit Function
• The Particle Instancer
• Goals
• Particle Rendering

Advanced Concepts

• Introduction to Hair, Fur, Cloth and Fluid

Rendering

• Rendering Types and their attributes
• Render Management
• Multipass Rendering

Matchmoving

• Photogrammetry and the Matchmoving Process
• Perspective Matching
• 2D Tracking
• 3D Tracking

• Techniques for evaluating source footage and its suitability for tracking
• Solving and generating data from matchmoving
• Troubleshooting matchmoves

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