VFX Film Making

The Film Making industry is expected to reach INR 192 billion and VFX industry to reach up to Rs.87.1 billion in 2020. With the film industry putting out a healthy dose of VFX heavy blockbusters like wonder Woman, Blade Runner 2019, and Thor: Ragnarok, we must say that the visual effects companies have never been so busy. It also saw a push towards newer ways of using VFX in movies that would affect the industry for many years to come.

The Visual Effects Film-Making program imparts you with the skills needed to be successful in the VFX industry and enables you to contribute to the entire process of storytelling in Films.

This Program gives you the complete workflow knowledge of the VFX Pipeline in Films from conception through to completion. The Program modules covers understanding of the VFX Design Process, Cinematography techniques, VFX Fundamentals, VFX Film Making pipeline from pre to post production.

Term 1 :

VFX DESIGN & VISUALISATION

• History of Visual Effects in Films
• Concepts of Graphics & Illustrations
• Concepts of Cinematography & Photography
• Lights, Colour & Perspectives
• Digital Painting
• Anatomy Study
• Character Design
• Visual Scripting with Film Language
• Audio-Video Editing
• Storyboarding & Animatics
• Application of 2D Animation Principles
• Project Portfolio

Term 2 :

3D DESIGN & VFX BASICS

• Fundamentals of VFX & 3D Basics
• Digital Modeling with Maya
• Digital Sculpting
• Texturing 3D Models with Maya
• Lighting Models with Maya
• Rigging 3D Models with Maya
• 3D Character Animation & Rotomation
• Particle & Dynamics
• FX & Simulation
• Matchmoving & Camera Tracking
• Crowd Simulation
• Working with Arnold Renderer
• Layer-Based Compositing
• 3D Design Portfolio

Term 3 :

VISUAL EFFECTS FOR FILMS

• VFX Film Making – Pre to Post Production
• Pre-visualization & VFX Video Shoot
• Introduction to Nuke
• Rotoscopy Using Silhoutte
• Roto & RotoPaint
• Wire Removal
• Colour Correction
• Green/Blue Screen
• Matchmoving Techniques
• Matte Painting
• Time Remapping & Bounding Boxes
• Channel & Multi Passes
• Advanced Compositing Tools
• FX with Houdini
• Z-depth & Multipass Compositing
• Specialisation & Digital Portfolio Development