Introduction to the Motion Picture/VFX Pipeline: What are Moviemaking and VFX?-Principles of Motion Pictures and VFX. Digital Formats: Data Transfer, Color Depth, and Compression Formats. VFX Concepts: Thinking in Layers-Complex and Multisource. Operations.

Introduction to VFX: Advanced Photoshop for 3D, VFX, and Digital Compositing: Photoshop Selection Methods: Simple Selections- Alpha Channels-Advanced Selections- Levels Adjustment- Channel Ops. Compositing: Compositing Applications- Layer-Based Compositors-Nodal –based Compositors-Keyer Types and Concepts.

3D for VFX: 3D Applications: Maya-3ds Max-Light wave 3D-Cinema 4D-Modo- Blender. 3D Motion Tracking: 3D Motion Tracking Application Technique- 3D Motion Tracking Application.3D Match moving: Advanced 3D Tracking Strategies.

VFX Techniques: 2D VFX: Advanced integration and card Trick VFX: Matching and light Wraps-Matching film grain and Video Noise- Creating Procedural Light Wraps. 2D and 2.5 Crowd Replication- 2D Face Replacement- Card Tricks: Outside-the-Box Strategies: The Grid- House of Cards- For the Birds.

VFX Techniques: 3D VFX: 3D Tracking and Match moving CG: 3D Tracking- 3D Match moving CG- Hand 3D Tracking: Matchimation-3D Object Tracking and Replacement. Introducing Particle Systems: Null Objects- the Components of a Particle System- Particle System Rendering: Patrion’s and Non-Rendering Nulls. Introducing Dynamics-Rigid Body Dynamics- Bullet Dynamics.