production blog

Victor Perez is back with the first of a two part course that examines key concepts and fundamentals of photoreal compositing.

Phoenix FD is now available on the VPN and this new course covers a large water scene, using techniques to apply an art-directed stylized look on a stormy water simulation, including white splashes and foam, as a whale jumps out of and back into the ocean. 

This course, from Dneg CG Supervisor Charles Chorein, dives into Clarisse and the power of scattering.

In this new course, Hugo Léveillé shows how to build various pipeline tools using a variety of software.

This new two-part course is a perfect offering for those looking to improve their skills in tracking and compositing in After Effects.

This course, taught by Toby Winder, is the second part of an extensive two-part offering, continuing the work on a short sequence that was started in part one of the course.

Our new vfx course, part of our new digital matte painting and environments curriculum, will get you up to speed in Clarisse. By the end of the course you will be able to export a mesh from Maya, set up the Clarisse scene, assign shaders, texture an object, and Combiners to prepare your Clarisse scene.

This course, taught by Kirill Pleshakov, is focused on compositing a live action miniature explosion filmed at a scale of 1:13. The real explosions are filmed with multiple cameras from different angles, as each explosion object is destructed with one take.

Andrew Lowell is back, teaching a new course introducing artists to rigid body dynamics in Houdini.

One of the key components of epic movie magic happens in the thousands upon thousands of particles emitting in destruction scenes. It might be a collapsing building, a car impact, broken trees and leaves, or an impact on the ground. … Continued