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January 2013 term orientation week video

Taking a look at our new courses, and touching on our repeats, the orientation week video is now available for your viewing pleasure. Check it out and hear first-hand from the profs what they have planned for their courses.

You can also download the video for offline viewing.

We have an outstanding lineup of new courses, with a great slate of profs teaching them. Returning to spread the knowledge this term at fxphd are Eran Dinur, Charles Poynton, Tim Clapham, Tahl Niran, Brian Mulligan, Matt Leonard, and Peter Hartwig. We also welcome new professors Ben Greasley, Arthur Hur, and Nick Nimble to the fxphd crew.

  • C4D104: Introduction to Cinema 4D R14, Part 2
  • DCT302: Advanced Color Theory and ACES Workflow
  • DOP216: Lighting People, Products and Cars
  • HOU206: Houdini FX TD Fundamentals
  • KAT101: Introduction to KATANA
  • MOG206: Aesthetics of Motion Design
  • NUK104: Introduction to NUKE v7
  • NUK221: NUKE 7 and modo Workflow
  • PNT205: 3D Plants and Digital Environments
  • SMK209: Getting up to speed in the new Smoke
  • VRY302: Photorealism in VRAY for maya

fast forward: Introduction to 5th Kind

Digital asset management is a concern for many facilities working on major projects involving millions of dollars. How can files remain organized, searchable, view and trackable and distributed securely? 5th Kind is addressing these exact questions. 5Th kind provides a way to centralize and tag all digital files across the entire production – anything and everything including scripts, casting, dailies, access to remote vendors, VFX and marketing materials – into one system. This reduces costs, eliminates duplicate tasks, makes for fewer emails, simplifies appropriate access and provides easy locating and re-use of assets across the entire company, production or studio.

This course, taught by John Attard, will introduce the 5th Kind digital asset management system. Giving you you the fundamental understanding on how it functions and how it can be integrated into studio environments. This course is ideal if you are at a major facility or joining one and want to step up to large scale production asset management.

For a full listing of the individual classes, click the “Read More” link…

 

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fast forward: VFX Foundations, Part I

Previously available only to fxphd members, we are releasing VFX Foundations, Part I as part of our fast forward program. It is a course designed for EVERYONE, from an absolute beginner to a career visual effects professional. No matter what you know or think you know about working with images using a computer this course will give you a better grasp of what those buttons sliders and nodes are truly doing. If you’re in visual effects, regardless of your level, this course should be a requirement.

Tahl Niran, is a compositor and trainer who has been working in visual effects since 1999. In that time he has worked in games, broadcast design, tv commercials and feature films and trained artists in Australia, London, New York, Mumbai and Shanghai. Tahl was one of the foundation professors at FXPHD and also one of the creators of the original Foundry Nuke Masterclasses. He returns to FXPHD after three years in London working with the team at Double Negative Visual Effects.

For a full listing of the individual classes, click the “Read More” link…

 

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fxphd fastforward: SpeedGrade CS6 Fundamentals

SpeedGrade CS6 Fundamentals will quickly get you up to speed on how to more effectively use the new grading software from Adobe. Taught by Joost van der Hoeven, this all-new course contains over three and a half hours of training covering the fundamentals you need to know to get most out of this new release. It also contains almost 1GB of source material used in the classes so you can follow along with the instruction.

This course is intended for users who are new to SpeedGrade or even a dedicated color grading program in general. While it is targeted towards editors and effects artists using the Production Premium bundle, the course will help get anyone quickly up to speed. Once you purchase the course, all materials are available for immediate download.

For a video preview and full listing of the individual classes, click the “Read More” link…
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What is fxphd? Glad you asked.

fxphd is an online vfx, production, post-production training program led by professionals. We offer both application and craft-based courses, online forums for feedback, and vpn software. Curriculum includes courses in applications such as Nuke, Flame, Maya, Houdini, After Effects, Final Cut, Color, and more. As owners of RED #22, we have been involved with the ground breaking camera since the very first shipments -- and built a solid foundation of on-set and post courses dealing with shooting RED.

Members of fxphd -- called postgrads -- have access to the high quality footage from fxphd shoots as well as other effects material, such as traditional 2D animation and advanced multi-pass 3D render. This allows them to create their own composites and build shots for their reels under the instruction of fxphd Professors. Footage ranges from NTSC and PAL all the way up to 4:4:4 1920x1080 imagery.


In order to help learn, members have access to a wide variety of software over the fxphd VPN. Members can download software and by logging into our servers, obtain licensing to run packages such as Nuke, Maya, Smoke on Mac (with no 30-day trial limitation), Mocha, and more. These are the full versions of the software, with no operational restrictions -- it's for non-commercial use and can be used for educational purposes and to build shots for their demo reel.

Our postgrads range in jobs from managing directors and CEOs of VFX companies to 3D artists and flame artists. But it doesn't stop there -- we were pleased to count as members freelance editors, PXC producers, web designers, traditional animators, and telecine assistants. fxphd even made inroads on-set with photographers, DOPs, and the odd live action Director who just wanted to be more informed and technically savvy.

Over the history of fxphd, we've grown to become the leading online subscription site for high-end post-production training. Over 90% of our members rate fxphd a "brilliant" or "great" value for their money -- with the same percentage rating their course professors "great" or "exceptional". We'll answer your questions as soon as we are able and if we don't get to it, it's likely one of our members will. You'll find our forums to be incredibly high level - with very little noise. And don't forget to listen to our weekly fxphDOD podcast -- you can listen to this week's episode and all past ones by visiting our fxphd podcast page.
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