Day 1: Visual FX Overview
Detailed Content
Day 1: This course consists of four modules and includes a hands-on session with a digital stills camera:
- Pre-production
- Production
- Hands-on with camera kit for digital stills capture
- Post-production: Assets
- Post-production: Shots
MODULE 1: PRE-PRODUCTION
This module will focus on what happens before you go on-set. You will look at:
- Pitching for VFX
- Concept art to illustrate ideas
- Visualising a shot with Previs
- Planning for the shoot with Techvis
MODULE 2: PRODUCTION
This training module will focus on what happens during the shoot and the data you need to acquire for VFX shots. You will look at:
- Shooting plates for VFX
- Element Shoots
- On-set data acquisition
- Capturing performances
MODULE 3: POST-PRODUCTION - ASSETS
With the shoot in-progress or possibly complete, you can now focus on creating the assets. This module will cover:
- Preparing on-set VFX data
- Modelling for VFX
- Painting surface details and creating materials
- Digital hair, fur and feathers
- Creating digital puppets
MODULE 4: POST-PRODUCTION - SHOTS
With your assets created, the film scans the on-set data available; you can now start adding your CG elements to the shots. This module will cover:
- Matching a digital camera to a real-world camera
- Post-visualisation
- Body/object tracking elements in a shot
- Composing a shot in Layout
- Adding weight to movement in Animation
- Adding dynamic effects to cloth, hair, muscle, skin and crowds
- Creating a believable and abstract FX
- Shot fixing a shot
- Creating digital environments and set extensions
- Lighting a VFX shot
- Rotoscoping and plate preparation
- Bringing the VFX elements together in Compositing
Presentation of Certificates by DNEG
Social Programme: networking drinks and dinner (optional)