ost-Graduate in Visual Effects

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

POST PRODUCTION

Principles of Digital Video

• Video and Audio compression, formats and codecs

• Digitizing video, Compatibility of video formats with different computing platforms
• Standard editorial procedures including logging, syncing and storage of materials
• Grading process and the role of the colourist
• Creative theories (production and reception, individuals and audiences)

Principles Of Editing

• Picture Edit & Continuity
• Picture Edit & Pace
• Sound Edit & Clarity
• Sound Edit & Creative Sound
• Editing Genre – Action, Dialogue, Comedy, Documentary
• Imaginative Documentary and Innovation Documentary
• Ideas & Sound
• Matching action, cutting on movement, pacing and rhythm

Nonlinear Editing & Digital Technology

• Interface of a Non Linear editing tool
• Importing assembling and previewing footage
• Basic Editing (Fade-in, Fade-out, Cut to Cut)
• Adding Transitions
• Advance Editing (2 Point, 3 Point Editing)
• Editing Audio
• Audio Sync
• Titling
• Combining images (e.g. layers, juxtaposition and montage, compositing)
• Effects (e.g. keying, mattes, filmstrips and rotoscoping)

Compositing

• Principles of Compositing
• Interface of the compositing software
• 2D & 3D Interactivity
• Applying operators
• Creating Matte for Masking
• Paint & Edit
• Adding Text
• Masking and shooting footage
• Keying
• Time remapping and time stretching
• Tracking

ADVANCED DIGITAL COMPOSITING

• Introduction to advance compositing tools and its compatibility to Production
• Principles of Compositing and assembling visual effects for film
• Understanding optical phenomena (such as depth of field)
• Understanding lighting, basic exposure matching,
• Colour correction and colour matching
• Wire and rig removal
• Ramping - Time Stretches and time squeeze
• Procedural extraction of masks from blue and greenscreen footage
• Rotoscoping, Masking and Chroma-keying
• RotoSplines and Digital Compositing Using Rotoscopy
• Matte adjustment and manipulation
• CG Compositing
• Particles & Filters
• 3D Camera & Lights
• Nesting
• Compositing Multipass Rendering