Skillshare – Learn Visual Effects: Adobe After Effects / PFTrack / 3dsMax

Have you ever wanted to do your own Visual Effects or maybe dream about working for a major VFX Studio in Hollywood? Well now you can learn all the basic skills to get you started! This course will give you the all building blocks that will allow you to start using Adobe After Effects, 3dsmax and also PFTrack to create your own amazing Visual Effects - Hollywood Style.

You will also get to use the amazing V-Ray Renderer for 3dsmax which is used widely in the Visual Effects industry as well as in the Gaming world!

What you will learn:

Autodesk 3dsmax

Creating Geometry

Subdivision Modeling

Animation and Keyframes

Texturing and the Material Editor

The Active-shade Renderer

The V-ray Renderer

MassFX Physics Engine

Lighting and Shadows

The Graph Editor

Importing 3D Models

How to use Tracking Data from PFTrack

Rendering

Adobe After Effects

After Effects Basics

Working with Layers

Applying Effects to Layers

Masks & Rotoscoping

Compositing

Animation and Keyframes

Color Grading

Chroma Keying

Tracking (2D and 3D)

and much more!!

PFTrack

User Track and Auto Track nodes

Solving the Camera

Orienting The Scene

Using Test Objects

Exporting Tracking Data to 3dsmax

and of-course much much more!

After each chapter you will do a very exciting mini project with me, to ensure that you understand everything that was covered in that specific lecture before we move on to the next.

I will provide you with sample footage / graphics / 3d models and more, that we will use during this course. You can find these assets in the Class Project section.