Various artists show their work on the vfx shots of Red Dwarf.
The course stretches over several pieces of software like Maya, Nuke and others and goes into concepts that can be applied to a variety of situations while still focusing on specifics.
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Based in Sydney Australia, Tim Clapham is a multi-disciplinary animator and compositor. Evolving from a solid foundation in traditional animation using both Film and Video, Tim soon transitioned into the digital domain and has forged a solid career in the world of Motion Graphics. With over 11 years of industry experience, Tim is accomplished with many 3D animation and Digital Compositing applications.

As the owner of Motion Graphics and Animation company Luxx, Tim is hands on with every project that the company produces. With a history of working with many global Advertising and Broadcast companies, the work Tim produces is both technically challenging whilst maintaining innovation and high quality.

Class 1: Creating a Pin Art sculpture – Modeling the Pin Art structure and pins, then assembling the array using the MoGraph Cloner object. Adding the Formula Effector to offset the pins and the Shader Effector to transform the pins creating the impression. This class will also include basic material creation.
Class 2: Animating along paths – An exploration of animating objects along splines within Cinema4D. Examining – Align To Spline, Spline Wrap, Spline Effector. The class will conclude by creating an animation setup using the core particle system combined with Matrix Object, Cloner Object, Effectors and also MoDynamics to create a continual flow of dynamic objects animated along a path.
Class 3: Building a Stereoscopic Camera Rig in Cinema4D Part 1 of 2 – this week we discuss some stereo theory and create the foundation of a toed-in, parallel and offset axis camera using Xpresso and User Data.
Class 4: Part two of a two week class building a stereoscopic rig. This week we continue the rig we started last week. Adding in helper planes, and an anaglyph preview using openGL. Finally a brief look at previewing the 3D effect in After Effects.
Class 5: Baking textures in C4D. Using Bake Object and Bake Texture Tag. Baking Normal Maps from geometry and sub-poly displacements. Baking Displacement maps from geometry. Baking GI for Camera Animation.
Class 6: The first of a two week class discussing lighting. Creating a basic light dome with MoGraph. Light and shadow types. Shadow casting lights. Light include / exclude lists.
Class 7: The second of a two week class discussing lighting. Creating studio type lighting with Global Illumination,then reproducing a similar setup with lights and no GI. Lighting a night time shot then rendering with light passes for manipulation in post.
Class 8: The first of a three week class working with audio. Modeling a speaker using NURBS. Creating a proxy switch setup with Xpresso. Using the Cloner and Shader Effector to create a bank of speakers that says MUSIC.
Class 9: The second of a three week class working with audio. Working with the Sound Effector. Creating the Speaker Textures with MoGraph Color Shader. Building a MoGraph controlled EQ. Working with MoGraph Selections.
Class 10: The third of a three week class working with audio. Baking Sound Effector to keyframes. Linking the data to other effectors. Creating progressive time tracks. Lighting and Rendering in passes. This class includes an extra 30 minute bonus class where we take the 3D renders and create a basic composite and colour grade in After Effects to showcase the final result.
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I haven’t taken any of the fxphd courses but I have seen a couple of them and heard many praises for the classes and quality of instruction they provide. The new term has just begun and you can view the different courses offered as well as check out the preview video. One particular course of interest to Editblog readers is the course Avid for Indie Film and Commercials. Final Cut Pro classes seem to be a dime a dozen these days so a good Avid course is worth noting. The class is taught by friend of the Editblog John Flowers from LIfeZero, That Media Show and That Post Show. John has been working (more) exclusively on Avid of late and will be a great teacher. From the fxphd website:
In this course, we cover the new Avid Media Composer 3 software, available on both Mac and Windows platforms, with a focus on Independent filmmaking and new media projects. In the first few courses, we take you from Final Cut – the standard tool for most Independent Filmmakers – into Avid – the standard in Hollywood. We will focus on the similarities and differences, with many, many examples.
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To develop knowledge and skills in the application of management accounting techniques to quantitative and qualitative information for planning, decision-making, performance evaluation and control.

Table of Contents

00. Revision
01. Costing Methods – ABC
02. Costing Methods – Throughput and Backflush Accounting
03. Costing Methods – Target and Lifecycle Costing
04. Linear Programming Optimal Solution
05. Penetration Pricing
06. Pricing
07. Decision Making Under Uncertainty
08. Budgeting
09. Forecasting
10. Variance Analysis
11. Introduction to Advanced Variance
12. Variance Analysis – Mix and Yield
13. Variance Analysis – Idle Time Analysis
14. Performance Mesurement

Notes and Books

ACCA Paper F5 – Syllabus (262p.)
LSBF Paper F5 – Class Notes (138p.)
LSBF Paper F5 – Revision Kit (134p.)
LSBF Paper F5 – Answer Guide (15p.)
ACCA Paper F5 – Tuition Mock (8p.)

Fundamental 5 – Performance Management by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
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The course gives an introduction to functional programming using the language Haskell.
Moreover, we will discuss models for the semantics and the implementation of functional languages. This also includes techniques for type checking and type inference.

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Massage is a very powerful practise and can be enjoyed by everyone in one or more of its wide and varied forms.
Touch is one of our most basic instincts and we are now rediscovering the healing powers of massage and other touch therapies, which have been used in other cultures for thousands of years.

Programme includes:
1. Basic Massage
2. Swedish Massage
3. Reflexology
4. Acupressure
5. Aromatherapy
6. Indian Head Massage
7. Facial Massage
8. After Treatment Advice
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Shape up. Our Texturing with Maya tutorials show you how to add textures to base models and turn skinned wireframes into realistic objects.
Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to manipulate photographs and create brushes and layers ready to use in Maya, just like the professionals do. Next, we show you how different combinations of specularity, bump, translucency and reflectivity are used to emulate the qualities of different surfaces, from skin to aluminium. At the end of the course you will have learned all the key skills you need to confidently create textures of any kind.

Course Breakdown:
Texturing with Maya
Texture Mapping
Photoshop Basics
Tiling and Layering Textures
Block Texturing a Non-Organic Object
Texture Distressing
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Going polygon. The Introduction to Polygons 3D modeling tutorials show you how to flesh out NURBs models with base surfaces ready for texture.
After downloading our pre-created library of project model files, you?ll add polygons to basic meshes of a human torso and a US P-51 Mustang WWII fighter plane. You then learn how to create UV maps ready for painting your objects in Photoshop. At the end of the course you?ll skin each model ready for animation.

Course Breakdown:
Efficient Modeling
Organic Modeling
Hard Surface Polygonal Modeling Part 1
Hard Surface Polygonal Modeling Part 2
Non Organic UV Mapping
Organic UV Mapping
Skinning
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As a successful and respected CG academy, Escape Studios is a proving ground for a new generation of computer graphics stars breaking into film, TV, games and commercials.
Escape Studios is not like other schools. We don’t practice theoretical exercises. We skip the history lessons and focus on results. Our courses teach you one discipline, in-depth over a short time period. Through intensive hands-on practical workshops, designed with a single goal in mind – we give our students the skills, experience and confidence (not to mention the demo reel) to help them succeed in the world of computer graphics

To succeed, you’ll need talent, personal and financial commitment, an imagination, hard work ethic and belief. If you’ve got what it takes, Escape Studios gives you the knowledge and tools to prove it. This is where it all begins.

Our Philosophy

After graduating with a degree and MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea Art School in London, Dominic Davenport pursued a career in VFX working for leading studios such as Glassworks, Double Negative and Me Company.
Through his own experience, Dominic realized the challenges young artists faced to obtain the technical skills required to work in this industry. The professional-standard computer graphics training he was seeking just didn’t exist. Dominic decided to make a change with his new project, Escape Studios.
His vision for Escape Studios was to fill the gap between what other schools were teaching students and what the industry required from graduates. While our vision is now much broader, our main focus remains to ready computer graphics artists for careers in industry. Dominic pioneers the company to this day with his creative spirit, defining everything we do.
Escape Studios continues to train young artists with the philosophy to represent, advocate and facilitate uncompromising excellence in all aspects of computer graphics.

New Fundamentals

General Control Center
Introduction to Tractor
New Slim Features
ReRendering & ReLighting
Volumetrics in RMS Vector DisplacementsPer-Face (Ptex) TexturesMaya Fluid Support
Stereo Rendering

New How To’s

All Purpose shader
PSets
Using Ptex maps
Outputs and Multi-Output Channels Maya FluidsReLighting
Baking Ptex Textures
Dispatching to Tractor
Revised SGAs CoShaders
Slim Scripting Volume Primitives
Cloud rendering
Stereo Rendering
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Step into 3D. Our first Maya tutorial introduces the essential concepts of computer graphics using the industry’s most popular animation program, Maya.
You begin by getting to know the user interface and learning your way around the basic processes of 3D design. Once you’re comfortable in Maya, you’ll learn how the professional production pipeline builds from wireframe modeling to final pass. At the end of the course you will have a good understanding of the fundamentals of 3D. You’ll know how to use the fundamental tools of Maya and be ready to begin creating your own 3D objects and environments.

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Maya Fundamentals
Curve Modeling
Procedural Texturing
Polygonal Modeling
Texturing
Lighting and Rendering
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