Forum: Training Discussions and Tips!

For all of you who haven't been in the know or have not received the email yet, cmiVFX is having a public 25% Off sale for all training videos at the cmiVFX.com store. We are welcoming many new additions to the team especially Sue Samonig formerly from Eyeon Software, and Foundry Certified Nuke...

I have currently learned how to use autodesk maya and after effects and want to know what books I should buy to learn about visual effects. In addition, I'm interested in being a visual effects animator. What would I have to learn for this to happen?

2 Day Course Dates: Saturday 24 + Sunday 25 March Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £175.00 Internet publishing can appear to be rather daunting, but in fact is not difficult at all. There is very little you require to build a website and everything you need is available free on the Internet....

1 Day Course Date: Saturday 10 March 2012 Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £100.00 Mocha is a popular tracking and rotosoping software, which ships with After Effects CS4, CS5 and CS5.5. Based on an innovative 2.5 D planar tracking system, Mocha helps visual effects artists solve complex...

1 Day Course Date: Saturday 3 March 2012 Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £100.00 Ideal for those that have already completed our own introduction course (or similar) and would like to take their compositing and design skills further. After Effects is one of the main weapons of choice when...

1 Day Course Date: Saturday 25 February 2012 Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £100.00 The introduction to After Effects course is designed for those new to post production techniques to get the most from this immensely powerful application. Whether you are a motion graphics designer, a web...

1 Day Course Date: Saturday 11 February 2012 Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £100.00 This one-day hands-on course will show you how to create user-customisable titles, transitions and effects in Motion 5, and then save them so they appear in, and can be applied and modified inside Final Cut...

1 Day Course Date: Saturday 28 January 2012 Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £100.00 Final Cut Pro X has been rebuilt from the ground up and will include support for all processor cores through Grand Central Dispatch. FCP X has some great features than can save you time and effort, as well as...

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New training featuring 24 new tutorials and over 46 hours of content has been released for January 2012. January's new training includes five additions to the Creative Development Series and 13 tutorials in the new Unity Mobile Game Development Series. New Tutorials: Reusing Control Rigs in...

Happy New Year Everyone. I just wanted to give you a bit of information about our upcoming Maya Character TD Level 1 and Maya Dynamics Level 1 courses at VFX Learning. The starting dates are January 5th and January 7th respectively. All of our training is mentored by professional artists...

It's a brand new month and we've just released 19 new in-depth tutorials comprised of over 400 lessons. This month we feature a major update to our Softimage library with the addition of the Introduction to Softimage 2012 tutorial with over 10 hours of training. This month also features two new...

The December new-training release includes the first Unity tutorials in a long line of upcoming training on the powerful game engine. The first two introductory Unity tutorials feature the foundational knowledge you’ll need to start creating high-quality games. New training this month also...

Does anyone know where to find some good Full HD free greenscreen?

Hi guys. My name is Lenar Mingazov. I'm vfx generalist and i spent last year making online education courses for students. It's included Basics and Projects courses (based on my real commercial works) If you looking for VFX education (Maya and After Effects) you can read description of them...

Anyone tried this? Looks good at first glance, and at $29.99 it's a snip. I've heard a lot of mixed reviews about cmi though :/ http://www.cmivfx.com/tutorials/view/229/Nuke+Object+Removal+Techniques Thanks in advance. Chaz

Hey, I have just recently started modelling a car for one of my final major projects for university. I was just wondering what sort of standard the industry expects in a vehicle, for example: what the mesh looks like and how many polygons to use etc. If anybody could send me any good examples I...