Escape Studio’s latest online learning resources (3D and Visual Effects webinars).
In this COVID-19 situation, it is is better to stay home and sharpen your knowledge. And to do so, what better way than free and exclusive knowledge based webinars? Check out complete details of online training videos and their registration links. The said event is titled as ‘E_scape Hub’.
All the Animation and VFX webinars and other online events are mentioned in London time. Change it to your timezone during the registration.
Nuke webinar (2D vs 3D series) – Keying without Alpha:
Date: 20th May, Wednesday, 2020
Time: 5 to 5.30 pm, London
Software: Foundry NUKE
Trainer: Clement Gharini (Filmmaker and VFX/Cinematography tutor)
Description: Learn advanced and industry standard keying technique. The online tutorial regarding how to do green screen (chroma) compositing in Nuke without alpha/matte operation. It preserves high details of edges and original colors.
Click the registration link and enroll yourself to join the webinar.
Online 2D Compositing Taster:
Date: 21st May, Thursday, 2020
Time: 5 to 6 pm, London
Description: This free online training video will cover following things:
- Fundamentals of VFX Compositing
- Industry standard cleanup techniques – Remove unwanted people from live action plate, through camera-tracking and projection techniques.
- Addition of CG elements into shooting materials
- Seamless integration of live action plate and CG render passes – Compositing of CG fortress to the edge of a cliff. Necessary color correction (cc) to blend it with shooting sequence. Sky replacement for realistic look and feel.
This webinar is aimed to both – beginners and experience artists both. You will also receive download link of all CGI and shooting plates, to practice on your own.
Click the registration link and enroll yourself to join the zoom webinar.
Online 3D VFX Taster:
Date: 26th May, Tuesday, 2020
Time: 2 to 3 pm
Description: The free webinar will cover:
- Introduction to the art of 3D VFX (Visual Effects)
- How to work as a professional VFX artist
- From scratch to the finished VFX shot
- You will learn about some essential techniques including creating simple geometry, UV’s, texturing, bump maps, lighting, animation, basic compositing and rendering
- Introduction to the CG pipeline
- Various job categories / opportunities
- Softwares will be Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop
- If there is time, final compositing in Nuke will also be covered
Click the registration link and enroll yourself to join this free zoom webinar.
Hard-surface Modeling in ZBrush webinar:
Date: 27th May, Wednesday, 2020
Time: 5 to 6 pm, London
Trainer: Jonathan McFall (VFX trainer of Escape Studios)
Description: ZBrush is an industry standard 3D software for digital sculpting, texturing and painting. Jonathan will teach some new techniques to do hard surface modeling in it.
Click the registration link and enroll yourself to join the webinar.
Online Animation Taster:
Date: 10th June, Wednesday, 2020
Time: 12 am to 1 pm, London
Description: Please download and install a trial version of Maya in advance. The online 3D tutorial will cover following things:
- Introduction to the art of 3D Animation using Maya
- How to work work as a professional Animator
- A 15 minute low-down of Maya basics
- 30 minutes of Animation
- 10 minutes to create a camera/produce a video
- 5 minutes to theoretically expand on further possiblities for the project
Click the registration link and enroll yourself to join the Maya webinar.
There are many other exclusive Animation and VFX webinars are lined up. Keep looking this space for more updates.
Apart from Animation and VFX webinars, ‘virtual series’ are also designed. To know more about it, along with other resources like career guidance, how to make demo reel, old webinars, students best works, please check the official link of Escape Studios.