So I’ll try and start a new one from where I left off and hopefully get some more advice from the original repliers or from some new people.
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Originally Posted by Void
(Post 136662) Stay away from that TAFE course. It will get you no where and is a total waste of money.
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So, no Sydney TAFE course, too much animation and apparently a waste of time.
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Originally Posted by Gravy
(Post 136664) As for a Mac if you have one you could pick up shake which is the only other node based compositor worth learning. Even though it’s becoming obsolete it would be a cheap way to learn. There is plenty of training out there for it. Though if you join fxphd as Tommy suggested you would have free access to Nuke.
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I could learn Shake but as Gravy suggested it’s becoming obsolete, I think I’ll get straight into Nuke and not dilly dally.
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Originally Posted by tommy138
(Post 136665) But if you want to work on high(er) end commercials or feature film (i’m assuming you want to do this) then it would be pretty hard to get a compositing job right away.
What might also be of interest, is to look at the online courses at Escape studios (http://www.escapestudios.co.uk/online-vfx-courses/). I can’t vouch for the online courses, but their classroom courses are pretty good. Don’t think I would be working at the level that I am now without them (and FXPhD). |
You’re right Tommy138, I envisaged myself doing high end commercials and films. I want to be part of something big. The escape studios online
course looks good. I’ll do some more research.
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Originally Posted by yakuzowner
(Post 136698) also I would take a look into the videocopilot courses any now and then … I would focus on learning nuke as your main comp tool but watching the free tutorials from videocopilot as well … they are especially good to learn vfx basics by using after effects …
I pretty much started like that … because they are free of course. But after a while I recognized that the world is much bigger and there where programs such as shake fusion and nuke … but when I lunched nuke the first time it was a bit of an overkill ^^ … but however – after a while I really went trough the pain and learned it .. and now I could never live without it … but still, after effects is a nice tool for quick work … but I need that bit of more control thats hidden in AE, as already said. And for the 3D side … I totally agree that animation courses are waste of time/money… but I recommend taking a look on Lighting/rendering courses to understand what kind of stuff you get from the 3d guys and whats hard to render and why you get ID passes and so on… but your main focus should really be on compositing – train your eye for detail such as color tones and object edges. Nuke and Maya are a good choice … but try to get aftereffects and photoshop (as a must) as your backbone 🙂 good luck mate! |
I’ll add the video copilot tutorials to my list of resources. I see your point yakuzowner, Nuke will probably be quite daunting at first and a steep learning curve but worth it in the end. I’ll also look into Light and Rendering courses. I’d always planned on increasing my Photoshop knowledge. I agree, along with AE these will be good backbone skills.
Before I go, looking at the escape online course http://www.escapestudios.co.uk/online-vfx-courses/ , it appears very Maya based and to be honest I’m a bit hazy on Maya’s usefulness as a compositors tool. I know it’s an end to end workflow but how much does it feature in a compositors working day? At £6500 do I need to learn Maya 3D? And what is an VFX Artist, the same as a compositor?
Thanks everyone, with your help I’m now starting to get a better understanding of what I need to do in order to reach the foot hills of this mountain I’m about to climb.
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