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FXPHD

– BKD236 Background Fundamentals

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Background Fundamentals is our bonus general curriculum course at fxphd. It is a TV-style program which forms the foundation of our curriculum at fxphd. The class covers a wide variety of topics which apply across all applications and is a favorite of our members.

This course is the Background Fundamentals series which originally ran during our April 2015 term.

CLASS 1

An overview of project management solutions.

CLASS 2

Mike takes a new look at Aliasing

CLASS 3

Mike talks about the capabilities for current gaming engines and Challenge 51.

CLASS 4

Mike talks to ILM vfx supervisor Ben Snow about facial capture technology.

CLASS 5

Mike talks to XPND Capital’s Marc Petit about company mergers and acquisitions.

CLASS 6

Mike talks to Christopher Nichols from the Chaos Group about the work of the Digital Human League.

CLASS 7

Using the Ricoh Theta 360 camera as a potential VFX tool.

CLASS 8

Preview of a Siggraph paper on skin microstructure for rendering realistic human face rendering.

CLASS 9

Project DreamSpace, an EU initiative for virtual production recently presented at FMX 2015.

CLASS 10

A close look at Faceshift, a markerless facial motion capture software.