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Pluralsight has a nice set of courses for VFX artists. You can learn VFX for everything from beginner to advanced-level visual effects training. Expert led training in motion graphics, compositing, matchmoving, scripting, video editing and more. These courses will give you tips and tricks on solutions like Fusion, After Effects, Smoke, Mocha, Nuke and more.
Here are some of the available courses:
Quick and Dirty VFX Tips in Maya
With this course, we’ll focus on learning some production-proven techniques for VFX in Maya. We’ll learn techniques for creating smoke, flames, melting wax, teleportation effects, and many more. With a bit of time and polish, you can make pretty impressive visual effects in Maya, and this…
Texturing VFX Assets in MARI
In this MARI tutorial, we’ll walk through a standard workflow for texturing assets for VFX. We’ll take a step-by-step approach through the process, starting with nothing and ending our project by using the MODO renderer integration to perform some look dev on our textures. We’ll learn how to…
Creating a Meteor VFX Shot in After Effects
In this After Effects tutorial, you’ll learn the process of how to create a VFX shot of a meteor. This specific shot was released outside of the Digital-Tutors name and accumulated over 500,000 views on YouTube, Reddit, and other media sites across the globe. The training is provided for free…
Creating a VFX Environment in MARI and NUKE
Throughout these MARI and NUKE tutorials, we’ll focus on how to create a matte painting from a concept, then convert it into an actual camera projection environment. We’ll blend all the elements to make the matte painting/camera projection more realistic. Next, we’ll learn how to model assets…
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You can find more information on the training program here.
Great to speed up your character creation or to quickly age your humans!