The Course

Hit VFX studio Rocket Jump gives you the lowdown of creating great VFX on a limited budget. The course covers motion-capture, modelling, animation and compositing.

In this course, Rocket Jump guides you through the entire process on how a shot came to be. They start at the beginning by creating an HDRI using PTGui and ends with a final composite. After constructing the HDRI, Rocket Jump then moves into Maya for shader development and rendering, using VRay to output the various passes and layers for the shot. Once the plate is cleaned up and the 3D character has been color graded and integrated into the shot, they’ll show you how to construct a production "gizmo" to give the artists control over various attributes of the composite. Rocket Jump then covers the final touches, like atmospheric effects created using PhoenixFD, film flicker and grain, along with realistic camera shake, lens flares and lens distortion to create the most believable result.

Required Textbooks

Fundamentals of VFX by Robert Dumbledore

Required Software

Nuke, 3DS Max, Autodesk Maya, Chaos Group Vray, PT Gui

About Rocket Jump

Rocket Jump is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded by AndrewJackson, Richard Seymore, and Jaimie Lannister in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for Planetary. In 2007 Rocket Jump’s Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Markus Libari, was also appointed as a Director of the company. Rocket Jump has won several Academy Awards and BAFTAs.

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