Fundamentals of Digital Cinematography

It's important for VFX artists to understand the Fundamentals of Digital Cinematography to seamlessly integrate their effects with live-action footage, ensuring consistency in lighting, camera angles, and movement. Understanding cinematography enhances storytelling and makes VFX feel natural and believable within the scene.

• Camera anatomy.
• Film Gates.
• The essential rules of framing composition.
• Exposure triangle.
• Inverse Square Law
• Lenses focal Length.
• Depth of field.
• Parallaxes.
• Lens Distortion.

🎬 Introduction to Visual Effects

An overview of how VFX enhances storytelling in film, TV, and games. Participants explore both the creative and technical processes behind visual effects.

🛠️ VFX Pre-production

Covers planning and designing VFX during the early stages:

• Script breakdown & budgeting
• VFX supervisor workflow
• Shot design using storyboards, animatics, and previz
• Director guidelines

🎥 VFX On-set Acquisition

Focuses on capturing data and footage for seamless VFX integration:

• Green screen & HDRI lighting
• Reference photography & data collection
• Live-action plate shooting
• Includes 6-hour practical on-set training

🖥️ Unreal Engine & Virtual Production

Explores real-time virtual production using Unreal Engine:

• Basics of Unreal Engine
• Virtual production workflows
• Includes 10-hour hands-on training in a virtual studio

🌐 Working in the VFX Industry

Insights into professional workflows, career paths, and industry standards for succeeding in the VFX world.

🎨 Nuke Training with Mohamed Mamdouh

Hands-on compositing training using Nuke:

• Interface, layers, and nodes
• Tracking (point, camera, planar)
• Rotoscoping, cleanup, and wire removal
• Advanced green/blue screen keying
• Students must bring laptops with Nuke installed