VFX Course In Mumbai

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PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM IN VISUAL EFFECTS (13 MONTHS)

OVERVIEW
From flying cars to flying superheroes! Create high-quality visual effects (VFX) for films, TV, advertisements & games.
With ZICA 's Visual Effects courses, become a part of the aggressively growing VFX industry that plays a crucial role in almost every movie these days. The demand for trained professionals in Visual Effects is growing at a fast pace. At ZICA, we design courses, which introduce you to industry-specific software like Fusion, Nuke, 3ds Max, Mocha and train you in the fundamentals and technical skills required to be a successful VFX artist.

COURSE CONTENT
Digital design, Video editing, Sound editing, 3D design & modeling, Look development, Lighting & rendering, Character set up & skinning, Character animation, Game engine workflow, Working with game engine lights, camera & animation, Asset integration in game engine, Creating UI tools, publishing to different platforms, Application development for VR & AR

SOFTWARES COVERED
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, Autodesk 3ds Max, Unity Game Engine,

CAREER OPTIONS
Interactive product demo artist, Virtual production developer, 3D VR background artist, 3D VR developer, AR/VR unity developer, E-learning designer, Modelling & texturing artist EDITOR
ADVFX PLUS – ADVANCED VISUAL EFFECTS COURSE
VFX (VISUAL EFFECTS) PLUS: CAREER COURSE

COURSE CONTENT
Pre-production, Storyboarding, Cinematography, Basics of photography, Stop-motion, Digital design Layer-based, node-based & advanced compositing, Clean plate & wire removal, Motion graphics, 3D design, Advanced particle effects, Cloth FX, pyrotechnics, rigid body & fluid simulations, Realistic digital environments & rendering techniques, Concepts of set extension & CG integration Match moving & camera tracking, Stereoscopic conversion, Editing with FCP, Procedural FX workflow, Project – VFX shot with miniature models

SOFTWARES COVERED
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Audition, Blackmagic Fusion, Mocha, Silhouette, PFTrack, Nuke, Final Cut Pro, Thinking Particles, Fume FX, Ray Fire, Real Flow, Vue, Houdini

CAREER OPTIONS
Compositor, Camera tracker, Match moving artist, FX artist, Motion graphic artist, Matte painter, Clean-up artist, BG prep artist, VFX generalist, Stereoscopy artist, Depth artist, Video editor, Pre-viz artist, Roto artist, Paint artist

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
-Increase design and visualization skills
-Learn complete Production and Post-Production Pipeline
-Introduction of Augmented and Virtual Reality module
-Continuous evaluation through competitions and activities
-Placement support

PROGRAM OUTLINE

History of VFX, Principles of Design, Photography, Computer Graphics, Film Making, Camera, Cinematography, Composition, Lighting, Screenwriting, Shooting, Video Editing, Audio Editing
3D Modeling, Surface Inorganic Poly-modeling Texturing, Hypershade Material, UV Mapping, 3D Paint,Lighting, Three-point lighting, Indoor lighting, Outdoor lighting, Rigging, Introduction to rigging, Connections, Deformers, Animation, Animation workflow, Principles of animation
Particles and Dynamics,Particles, Emitter, Fluid Effect, Soft Body, Rigid Body, Technical Animation, Fur, nHair nCloth, nDynamics, Xgen plugin, Bifrost
Digital Compositing – 1, Motion Graphics, Compositing, Rendering Digital Compositing – 2, Animation, dopesheet and curve editor, Rotoscope, Colour Management, Tracking, stabilizing, Planner Tracking, Keying Camera Projection, Camera tracking, Re-lighting, Rotopaint node, Clean-up, Digital Compositing – 3, Rotoscope, Different kind of tracking, Stereo conversion, advance tracking & stabilizing, Export footages, Digital Tracking, Auto tracking, Geometry tracking, Hard track, Soft track, Track stereo footag
Introduction to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), The basics of AR functionality, Taking the next steps with ARCore, Bringing ARCore to life