Nuke is an industry-standard VFX application used to create movies, Short films, etc. This Nuke visual effects training course will take you through the fundamental concepts of VFX Compositing in Nuke, and how to learn the user interface. 

By the end of the course, you will successfully be able to composite what would be considered a “Junior Digital Compositing” shot.  

The final project includes all of the techniques you learn along the way.  The class is focused primarily on the 2D aspects of compositing to get you started. 

It involves replacing a background, color correcting and blending the foreground and background, motion tracking the background to the foreground, and seamlessly bringing it all together.  As a bonus, you learn how to create an animated hologram effect from scratch appearing in front of the character!

There will be a lot of theory you need to learn first before you can successfully composite a shot, and with anything worth learning there is a learning curve.  But if you persist through you will have a great payoff and skillset at the end, and a great shot to show off that you created!

Requirements

• Mac or PC capable of running The Foundry Nuke (non-commercial/ commercial version)
• No prior knowledge or experience with Nuke is required

Autodesk Maya is an industry-standard 3D application used to create movies, games, and graphics. Explore the wonderful world of Autodesk Maya with this comprehensive introductory course.

As the industry-standard 3D animation software, learning Autodesk Maya is a great skill to help you land a job in the film, music, and gaming industry. In this course, you’ll learn how to create your entire animation from scratch.

What will you learn?

• Getting started with Maya and understanding the interface
• Modeling your own objects and scenes
• Shading your objects
• Lighting your scene and creating shadows
• Rendering your project
• Animating with keyframes
• Putting together an entire scene

Requirements

• You should have Autodesk Maya to follow along with the course
• 3-button mouse
• No prior knowledge or experience with Maya is required

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Blender provides end-to-end support for the production of games and videos. This includes features such as a powerful 3D modeling tool for building objects, support for animating objects in scenes, multiple rendering options, post-production video editing, interactive playback of scenes, and a game engine.

Everything you need to get started in ONE place

This course will teach you everything that is important to start your journey as a 3D artist. All the crucial fundamental principles, tools, settings, and workflows are explained and you will learn a full pipeline to create simple yet beautiful 3D animations, step by step and easy to understand. No need for gathering online videos from different sources to get started.

Suitable for absolute beginners

You don’t know anything about 3D or Blender yet or you just started out? No problem. This course will take you by the hand right from the start and will guide you through the dense 3D jungle. If you have some experience already, this course will help you to fill in the missing gaps and smoothly enter the new and exciting land of Blender.

Requirements

• Mac or PC capable of Running Blender Version 2.8 or above
• 3 button mouse

The course is project-based, so you will applying your new skills immediately to real 3D models. All the project files will be included, as well as additional references and resources – you’ll never get stuck. There are talking-head videos, powerful diagrams, quality screencasts and more.

After Effects is the leading professional motion graphics and visual effects software. Learning the fundamentals and beyond of Motion Graphics and Visual Effects using Adobe After Effects is a very powerful tool at your fingertips.

We’ll cover the fundamental building blocks of After Effects in a way that’s useful to every student and enthusiast, whether you’re interested in becoming a full-time motion graphics designer, starting a new hobby, or even giving creative direction to someone else operating the program.

Make videos the way you imagine them!

Practice while you learn. This course includes practice files so you can follow along and actually learn by doing.

What’s this course all about?

Get ready to create motion graphics that will improve your video quality. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to use video effects and create custom motion graphics, you can learn After Effects CC right now.

Practice lessons will get you motivated and moving to your goals.

The lessons are meant to teach you how to think like a motion graphics/video effects artist. After Effects is a robust tool that is capable of creating almost any video effect out there. 

You’ll learn all of the basics, intermediate, and some advanced techniques, from working with shapes, text, and textures to video effects, transitions, and 3d camera.

Knowing After Effects CC is a great skill to have that is in demand and highly marketable.

Requirements

• Adobe After Effects, preferably the latest CC (Creative Cloud) version.
• Pc, Mac, or Linux machine with Graphics card
• No prior knowledge or experience with After Effects is required

DaVinci Resolve is a professional video editing application used by professionals and amateurs. It’s easy and simple to use. It provides you with simple to use yet powerful tools to edit your videos and achieve high-quality production.

What you’ll learn ✔

• How to use DaVinci Resolve for Video Editing from beginner to advanced
• Cut Page Quick & Easy Video Editing
• How to add effects (OpenFX) to your Videos
• How to add Motion Graphics to your Videos
• How to Correctly Color Correct using DaVinci Resolve
• How to work with all kind of Nodes from Serial to Layer, Parallel… and even the Combiner/Splitter Nodes
• How to do Color Grading using multiple tools in DaVinci Resolve
• How to correctly use Curves, Color Wheels, Qualifiers, Power windows, Scopes and all the rest.
• You will complete a full project from Importing Media, Video Editing, Color Correction and Color Grading with Motion and ResolveFX

I’ll teach you everything you need to know about video editing, visual effects, motion graphics, color correction & grading, and audio editing to create professional-looking videos.

Requirements

• Pc, Mac, or Linux machine with Graphics card
• Davinci Resolve 15 or 16 installed on your computer.
• No prior knowledge or experience with Davinci Resolve is required

This course will help you to learn about the fundamentals of node-based compositing using Fusion, this course will also demonstrate the user interface of Fusion along with features & applications.

This course will also help you to learn about how to import media supported in Fusion and would also give you knowledge of working on the basic nodes and their parameters. Through this course, you will also learn compositing viewers and keying using Fusion.

Below are the details about all that we are going to understand here. You shall be learning about the overview of UI, various nodes, and working with nodes such as adding a node, duplicating node, merge node, removing a node, importing footage, re-sizing composition.

Time Ruler- In this section you are going to understand current time, keyframe ticks, changing the display format, ranges, global start, and end range, render start and end range, visible range slider, render button, playback buttons, and composition quality options.

Animation in Fusion- Through this section you shall be learning about Creating Basic shapes, adding keys, adding masks to shapes, and animating shapes in motion.

This course has been designed from the ground up for beginners to Davinci Resolve, that being said even intermediate users will benefit from this course as the later classes tackle some more advanced VFX compositing techniques.

Requirements

• Pc, Mac, or Linux machine with Graphics card
• A free version of Blackmagic Fusion 9 or Davinci Resolve 15 or 16 installed on your computer.
• No prior knowledge or experience with  Blackmagic Fusion is required

In this section of the course, I will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with Adobe Premiere Pro. Make better videos and join the world of professional video editing in this step-by-step Premiere Pro course.

Premiere Pro is used by professionals across the world for every type of production from business & marketing videos, music videos to documentaries, feature films. After completing this course, you too can become a confident, skillful, and efficient creator of stunning videos.

Either you’re completely brand new to Adobe Premiere Pro, or you’ve played around with it but want to get more comfortable with Adobe Premiere Pro. Either way, this course will be great for you.

In this complete guide to Adobe Premiere Pro video editing course, you’ll not only learn all of the editing tools available in Premiere Pro, but also how to edit with the mindset of a professional editor. 

By the end of this course, your confidence as a video editor will soar You’ll have a thorough understanding of how to use Adobe Premiere Pro for fun or as a career opportunity.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro, preferably the latest CC (Creative Cloud) version.
• Pc, Mac, or Linux machine with Graphics card
• No prior knowledge or experience with Premiere Pro is required

In this section of the course, I will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with Photoshop. You’ll learn how to use Photoshop for use in Graphic Design & for Photoshop Retouching.

Either you’re completely brand new to Adobe Photoshop, or you’ve played around with it but want to get more comfortable with Adobe Photoshop. Either way, this course will be great for you.

There are exercise files available to download so that you can follow along with me in the videos. There are lots of assignments I will set so that you can practice the skills you have learned.

By the end of this section, your confidence as a photoshop user will soar. You’ll have a thorough understanding of how to use Adobe Photoshop for fun or as a career opportunity.

Requirements

• Adobe Photoshop, preferably the latest CC (Creative Cloud) version.
• Pc, Mac, or Linux machine with Graphics card
• No prior knowledge or experience with Photoshop is required

In this section of the course, I will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with Illustrator. You’ll learn how to use Illustrator for use in Graphic Designing.

Either you’re completely brand new to Adobe Illustrator, or you’ve played around with it but want to get more comfortable with Adobe Illustrator. Either way, this course will be great for you.

There are exercise files available to download so that you can follow along with me in the videos. There are lots of assignments I will set so that you can practice the skills you have learned.

By the end of this section, your confidence as a Illustrator user will soar. You’ll have a thorough understanding of how to use Adobe Illustrator for fun or as a career opportunity.

Requirements

• Adobe Illustrator, preferably the latest CC (Creative Cloud) version.
• Pc, Mac, or Linux machine with Graphics card
• No prior knowledge or experience with Illustrator is required