Skillshare – Learn Visual Effects: Adobe After Effects / PFTrack / 3dsMax

Have you ever wanted to do your own Visual Effects or maybe dream about working for a major VFX Studio in Hollywood? Well now you can learn all the basic skills to get you started! This course will give you the all building blocks that will allow you to start using Adobe After Effects, 3dsmax and also PFTrack to create your own amazing Visual Effects - Hollywood Style.

You will also get to use the amazing V-Ray Renderer for 3dsmax which is used widely in the Visual Effects industry as well as in the Gaming world!

What you will learn:

Autodesk 3dsmax
Creating Geometry
Subdivision Modeling
Animation and Keyframes
Texturing and the Material Editor
The Active-shade Renderer
The V-ray Renderer
MassFX Physics Engine
Lighting and Shadows
The Graph Editor
Importing 3D Models
How to use Tracking Data from PFTrack
Rendering

Adobe After Effects
After Effects Basics
Working with Layers
Applying Effects to Layers
Masks & Rotoscoping
Compositing
Animation and Keyframes
Color Grading
Chroma Keying
Tracking (2D and 3D)
and much more!!

PFTrack
User Track and Auto Track nodes
Solving the Camera
Orienting The Scene
Using Test Objects
Exporting Tracking Data to 3dsmax
and of-course much much more!

After each chapter you will do a very exciting mini project with me, to ensure that you understand everything that was covered in that specific lecture before we move on to the next.

I will provide you with sample footage / graphics / 3d models and more, that we will use during this course. You can find these assets in the Class Project section.