Diploma in VFX Production

Covers the VFX pipeline (pre-production, production, post-production), perspective drawing and concept art, light and shadow, camera and lens types, and colour theory including the colour wheel, white balance, and gamma correction.

Covers the history and techniques of rotoscoping, vector animation and spline tools, tracking (point, planar, and Mocha tracking), node-based paint and clean plate work, keying and matte extraction, and 3D compositing.

Covers 3D modelling and shading, lighting and rendering pipelines, character rigging and IK/FK animation basics, camera and lens fundamentals for matchmove, and Lidar-based camera solving and file delivery.

Covers budgeting and scheduling, pre-production and production coordination, post-production execution, team communication and dailies review, and client communication and feedback cycles.

Covers project initiation and planning, execution and resource coordination, monitoring and change management, resource allocation, and real-time project tracking.

Covers active listening and client engagement, requirement clarification and validation, collaborative prototyping, documentation and traceability, and iterative feedback and adaptation.

Practical module compositing a full scene with layers, mattes, 3D elements, and splines, including chroma keying, 2D/3D tracking, camera projection, 3D element rendering, grading, and final delivery.

Practical module covering camera and lens knowledge, Lidar lineup and deviation curve fine-tuning, camera solving, object tracking, animation layers, and scene packaging and rendering.