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VFX Compositing with After Effects: The Complete Edition
A comprehensive guide to compositing for live-action films in post-production visual effects using Adobe After Effects.| Length | Under 3 weeks |
| Effort | 2 hours per week |
| Price | $ 115 |
| Subject | Design, Art |
| Level | Any |
| Languages | English |
| Video Transcripts | English |
If you want to learn how to use After Effects to create realistic visual effects (VFX) shots and not just motion graphics, then you're looking at the right course. This course will reveal the tips, tricks and applications of compositing in post-production visual effects - one of the final steps to finishing and executing any visual effects shot.
Learn How to do Compositing from an Industry-Trained Professional.
Using 3 real live-action films as test shots for this course, learn by actually working on shots while following the course as a step-by-step guide to proper and professional compositing.
Why This Course?
Taught by a real professional in the visual effects and film industry who worked on actual Hollywood blockbusters
Step-by-step guide with practical and hands-on live-action shots to work on
Insights and know-hows that would save you time and money when working on your own visual effects shot
Major part of a series of other more advanced visual effects tricks, tips and methods
Networking and open collaboration opportunities with instructor and students
Create Your very own Cinema Quality Visual Effects Shots.
You will Learn How:
Compositing is applied in film and television
To do realistic compositing
To use After Effects for composting in live-action films
To apply basic and advanced compositing techniques and tricks
Smart ways of compositing and the other effective ways of doing compositing
Complete with additional documents, students who complete the course will also be awarded with a bonus section - kind of like that satisfaction you feel when you finally finish that visual effects shot.
The best part about this course is that it's going to cover all that you need to know about compositing in only the time that is necessary to get the lessons across - unlike those 15-hour courses where most lessons simply just go on forever, or exist for no reason.
If you participate in this course, you will walk away learning and applying what I learned myself, whilst working on the visual effects of major Hollywood film and television, AND saving yourself a bunch of hours with lesson content that only exists when it is necessary.
NOTE: This course covers some content from the first published course in the series: "VFX Rotoscoping 101 with After Effects and Mocha"
Who this course is for:- Film students and graduates interested in visual effects post-production
- Professionals from other industries looking to try some visual effects shots
- Aspiring or new filmmakers working on their own visual effects film
- Students of the "VFX Rotoscoping 101 with After Effects and Mocha" who want to enhance their skillset in visual effects
- Visual effects professionals who need to refresh their skills and have been out of the industry for a while
- NOT for seasoned visual effects professionals who are currently in the industry
What you'll learn
- Know what, when and how to do simple to advanced compositing in Adobe After Effects
- Know how to use Adobe After Effects for simple to advanced compositing of live-action shots
- Apply basic and high-level techniques in compositing
- Compliment rotoscoping skills picked up in "VFX Rotoscoping 101 with After Effects and Mocha" to do more advanced visual effects shots
Course syllabus
Meet the instructors
Vicki Lau
VFX Professional, Emmys 2014 Attendee, TEDx & SMPTE Speaker
Vicki started as a humble student of digital media back in the small city of Singapore with a background in visual effects and programming in film and television. Without any contacts or connections in the United States, she began her career at the age of 18 from Singapore, working her way up into the Hollywood film industry and landing her first break working on AMC's hit series, The Walking Dead (Season 4), as well as other movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy, War for the Planet of the Apes and the recent Aquaman.
Already recognized by her country and by major organizations as an expert in her field, Vicki has made great strides for someone her age, being in consistently high demand for jobs - averaging about 4 job offers and requests for interviews per freelance month(s) of availability, whilst her peers are still struggling to find their first entry-level position in the field. At only 24 years of age, she was one of the youngest speakers and presenters at the SMPTE Annual Technical Conference in its time, where she was a panelist and speaker for virtual reality in motion pictures.
She gave a TEDx talk on visual effects and virtual reality in May 2016 at Napa Valley, CA and in November 2018, was invited to speak as a keynote speaker at Elliot Masie's Learning 2018 conference, along with keynote speakers Former First Lady Laura Bush and Hamilton star Leslie Odom, Jr.
Why Learn from Vicki?
What makes Vicki different from other VFX instructors is that she actually worked IN Hollywood, California itself, brushing elbows with many names and even being invited to the Emmy Awards in 2014. Vicki shares with her students REAL insights that people in the Hollywood industry uses.
Learn from someone who actually worked IN Hollywood, CA at the MAJOR studios and blockbuster hits, and not some project outsourced to a small country or city at an unknown studio or from someone who claims to know "the secrets," by mimicking other successful instructors' language and content.
Trust, but verify. You can check out Vicki's IMDb page as proof.