Course description
Compositing for Visual Effects
Compositors are in high demand and this 12-week course could be your opportunity to jump into the industry. It will give you a thorough introduction to all things 2D. We’ll teach you how to composite layers together seamlessly, to create a showstopping final shot. You’ll cover all the essentials including rotoscoping, prep work, keying, camera tracking and colour correction.
Over 12 weeks of hands-on learning, you’ll get to grips with professional software such as Nuke, and you’ll learn how real studios and pipelines operate, leaving you ready to kick-start your compositing career. Our tutors have experience working in the industry, on credits including with industry-trained tutors who worked on the likes of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Kingsman and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, so you will learn the techniques, software and skills used in the industry today.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
To study this short course, you must:
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Be over 18
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Have a good understanding of written and spoken English
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Feel comfortable using a computer.
Training Course Content
Module 1 - Compositing 1
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The interface: premultiplied images
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Production pipeline and light
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Digital images, formats and resolution
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Film properties and behaviour: log vs. linear
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Premultiplication maths
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Introduction to Nuke
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Transformations and rotoscoping
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Transformations and introduction to tracking
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Multiple-point tracking
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Planar tracking and refining track data
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Introduction to rotoscoping
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Rotoscoping human movement
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Rig removal composites
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Rotoscoping in Silhouette (SFX)
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Tracking in SFX
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Painting in Nuke
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Generating clean plates
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Advanced paint and prep work
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SFX prep techniques
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Warping and morphing
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Advanced prep work
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Matching film grain
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Marker removal
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Keying
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Introduction to keying methods
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Keylight node and the despill process
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Primatte and IBK keyers
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Compositing outside the keyer
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Pre and post processing: refining the key
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Colour correction and grading
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Exposure, gamma and curves
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Density and colour matching
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Colour management
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Atmospherics
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Module 2 - Compositing 2
Why choose Escape Studios
Top 6% of Institutions for Graduate Employability -- by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
First Unreal Authorised Training Center in the UK
Expenses
- Tuition fees (on campus): £11,950
- Tuition fees (live online): £9,350
Continuing Studies
Compositors often start out as rotoscope artists or in junior roles, but rise to become compositors and compositing supervisors. From here the path is open to becoming a VFX supervisor.
Escapees from our compositing courses have gone on to work at companies including: Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Cinesite, DNEG, MPC, Milk VFX, Sky, Electric Theatre Collective, JellyFish Pictures and Pixomondo.