We’re excited to announce a new section of the fxphd store, called fxphd on demand. It’s a selection of some of our most popular courses from the fxphd vault, available for purchase and immediate download. These are the full courses, including supporting footage and setup downloads when available. And for a limited time, you can purchase these courses for only $69, a savings of $30 off the regular price.

Why did we do this? For several reasons.

First and foremost, we recognize that many artists need training immediately in order to get up to speed for a project or job, so they’re unable to wait the entire term to get all ten classes.

Next, while we have a wide variety of material available each term at fxphd, not every artist can find a full slate of courses that they are interested in. So we’ve carefully chosen a selection of popular courses to share with people who aren’t members of fxphd.

Finally, this is a way to introduce more artists to the killer training we have internally at fxphd. We continually hear that those of you who have never been members would like to get a glimpse of what fxphd offers before you join. And this is a great way to do this.

Does this mean we’re changing fxphd? Hell no. But we do continually tinker with the mix a bit, and this is a perfect example of that.

We love fxphd and its incredibly loyal members. The courses that we’re offering through fxphd on demand have run several terms and were very popular with our members. Our members get first crack on the training, months (or years) before we release it to the public at large.

In addition, our members get access to our bonus extras like Background Fundamentals, over $20,000 worth of VPN software to learn and built shots for their reel, as well as our exclusive member forums.

For us, we hope this move introduces more people to the great training at fxphd and shows what a great value a membership is.

Here’s a list of the courses currently available on-demand:

• Advanced Digital Colour Theory
• Advanced Nuke & Digital Environments
• After Effects Expression Bootcamp
• Batch Compositing Techniques in Flame & Flare
• Best of Background, Vol. 1
• Creating Dynamic Destruction FX in Houdini, Maya, & Nuke
• Focus on Matte Painting Techniques
• Fusion Production Workshop
• Introduction to 3DEqualizer
• Introduction to Arnold
• Introduction to Golaem Crowd
• Introduction to Path Tracing and RIS in RenderMan
• Introduction to Photogrammetry
• Introduction to TouchDesigner
• Introduction to V-Ray
• Math By Arrows – Procedural Organic Growth in Cinema 4D
• Painting and Reconstruction Techniques with NUKE X
• Practical Audio Techniques with Audition
• PySide for NUKE
• Python for NUKE and Gizmology
• Real Mathematics for Visual Effects and 3D
• Real World Lighting and Rendering with Arnold
• Shading with RIS in RenderMan
• The Craft of Color Grading
• The Craft of Color Grading II
• The Dark Art of Digital Beauty Work
• The Reluctant Sysadmin
• The Web and Cloud for the Artist