Visual Effects Production

This Visual Effects (VFX) Course teaches you the software and techniques that professionals use to create the effects seen in film, commercials and broadcast television.

Developed by Lee Danskin, award-winning VFX artist and the man behind some of the best-known CG commercials of the past ten years, our Visual Effects course shows you how to create VFX elements and combine them with live-action to create a seamless photo-realistic final sequence.

Key techniques include tracking, effects, texturing, lighting, rendering and compositing. You’ll also gain an understanding of the real production workflows that the professionals use.

Combining your new skills with your own creative ideas you’ll spend the final weeks of the course producing you own eye-popping VFX-enhanced shot built to demonstrate your expertise to a potential employer.

Course Breakdown

• Introduction to the User
• Introduction to Lighting and Rendering
• Animation Basics
• NURBS Modelling
• Polygon Modelling and UVs
• Introduction to Texture Mapping
• History of Visual Effects and Camera Tracking
• Advanced Lighting
• Advanced Texturing
• Compositing and Rendering
• Introduction to FX
• Project Work

Course Also Includes

• Access to a free Graphics Primer online course designed to give you the essential Computer Graphics grounding you need before you start your classroom course
• Access to Escape’s unique interactive online learning platform where you can communicate with tutors and other students, and also check out other students’ work
• 12-months free access to the Maya Essentials Bundle, ZBrush for 3D Artists, Nuke for 3D Artists, Advanced Lighting and Advanced Shading online courses
• 12-months free access to the 3D Equalizer and Matchmover online courses, exclusive to our classroom students
• Unlimited showreel clinic sessions with Escape Studios experts after you complete your course
• Career support with our recruitment experts who will give you advice on your CV and showreel and help you with job applications and interviews

Jobs you can apply for after this course

• Camera Tracker
• VFX Generalist
• Junior VFX Artist

Our Tutors

All of our tutors are professional CG artists with experience at the very top of their fields. Click here, to see some of their profiles.