Video Tutorials

What can we say? Not all great videos are about Polygons and Curve editors. Once you've mastered the techniques in this video, it will ruin TV and movies for you forever. When you see how many TV shows and movies are using "cookie cutter" color grading on all the hit block busters, you will never be able to sit through a movie again without calling out what you have learned in this video!

FXPHD – DMP302 – Digital Matte Painting Desert Apocalypse | 2.6 GB

In this course, Hugo Léveillé shows various tips and tricks to build a VFX pipeline. You will see how to build various pipeline tools using a variety of software. In this first part, you will learn how to manage Python modules with the virtual environment and PIP. Next, you'll learn how build a database system from scratch so that you can save our project information inside it, which will be the foundation of what will be built in future courses.

This course, from CG Supervisor Charles Chorein, dives into Clarisse and the power of scattering. The course covers the different aspects of scattering in Clarisse, NVIDIA Optix and denoiser, Cryptomatte and Light Path Expression for multi lights.

This course was created last time I was teaching at The Animation Workshop, Denmark. Its a full biped rigging course going from a simple start and upgrading our rig. Its showing a ton of techniques that can be applied to your own rigs.

The goal of the visual effects compositor is photorealism, using the art of compositing layers of images to look coherent using the physics of light at the service of storytelling. It's critical that, in the end, the merged image needs to loo like they have been shot at the same time with the same camera and lenses, under the same lighting conditions.

This course introduces the fundamentals of concept art for games. Focusing on the functional roles that objects play, the course takes an ‘inside-out’ approach to design thinking. Learn to critically investigate forms beyond surface-level shapes. With an emphasis on logic and problem-solving, no pre-existing drawing skills are required for this course.

Elementza – Retopology For Hard Surface

The Hard-Surface Handbook was created to assist with the understanding of the various topics in hard-surface modeling. There are so many different important topics in hard-surface modeling, from auto smooth, bevel weight, booleans, ngons, shading, etc, and this handbook is meant to cover each and every one of those topics in-depth.