Instructor Led Compositing Training in United States

Photoshop Essential Skills I Learn the industry standard tool for creating rich imagery for a variety of applications including video, print and the web in this comprehensive two-day Photoshop CS4/ CS5 training. You will begin by learning the interface and how to properly setup a workflow for image editing. Your instructor will teach you how to retouch, repair and manipulate photos with advanced tools. Create projects that  more...

After Effects Essential Skills II Take your AfterEffects skills to the next level in this two day training. You will start off with a refresher of the basics and move on to more advanced concepts. This training will cover several hot topics including creating complex tracking in Mocha AE, and exporting to Flash and using Flash Cue Points with AfterEffects. Other essential skills include properly keying footage, manipulating masks  more...

Studio 101 - Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Studio This three-day, hands-on course familiarizes students with real-world effects techniques, including filters, layering, composite modes and animating video, graphics and titles. The practical approach to motion graphics focuses on the features of Final Cut Studio that editors and designers need to use in their daily work. Using Motion, Final Cut Pro and LiveType, youa ll build creative titles,  more...

Shake 101 - Overview of Shake ...compositing software with a complete toolset for both single artists and visual effects facilities. With 3D multi-plane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying, cutting edge Optical Flow image processing, Final Cut Pro 5 integration and an open, extensible scripting language, Shake 4 delivers all the tools required for sophisticated film and television visual effects. Do you watch a  more...

Boris Effects and Titling ...compositing, filters, title animation and graphic tools used in Boris RED. RED is a 3D compositing, title animation, and special effects plug-in for non-linear editing systems, including Avid, Media 100, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. RED's advanced functionality includes 2D/ 3D title effects and animation, vector paint and rotoscoping, motion tracking and image stabilization, time filters  more...

Advanced Maya Lighting Texturing and Rendering Day 1 Topics: * Product modelling * Photoreal object modelling techniques for commercials assembling your source material aligning image planes in Photoshop Day 2 Topics: * Advanced shading networks * Layered texture vs. layered shader * Metal: iron, chrome and copper * Glass * Creating wrapping textures Day 3 Topics: * Environment  more...

Autodesk Smoke 2009 Level 1 * PROJECT MANAGEMENT Projects Hotkeys * SMOKE WORKSPACE EditDesk Clip Libraries Working with Clips Player and Timeline Navigation * IMPORT MEDIA Restoring an Archive Capturing and Importing EDL and XML Import * TIMELINE 1- EDITING Editing Techniques Timecode Trimming Transitions  more...

Advanced Lightwave Characters and Kinematics * Organic character modeling * Character rigging with bones and skelegons * Forward and inverse kinematics rigs * Weight Mapping - SubPatch Weights & Bone weights * Facial Animation with Endomorph * Character rigging with bones and skelegons * Segmented and Organic character will be discussed * Forward and inverse kinematics will  more...