Guerilla VFX for Indie Film Makers (Udemy.com)

Learn to take a VFX project from start to end as a solo artist for your own films

( 2 Reviews )

Created by: Abo Nabam

Produced in 2022

What you will learn

You will learn how to be more confident on approaching a vfx heavy shot where you are the sole person with the responsibility to finish the shot.
Learn to do Key for a green screen footage
Creating a basic matte painting landscape in photoshop
sculpting in Maya to create our rock asset
learn how to use substance painter to texture our spaceship asset
Know how to use the Redshift render shader and render settings

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Course Description

This is an Intermediate Course since I cover multiple software to achieve the desired result. Therefore before purchasing make sure you have a basic understanding of how Nuke, Maya, Substance painter works.

Project Files are included if you want to follow along. Also all my nuke scripts too if you want to dig into the nodes ity bity!!
While i show you the techniques of finishing a shot all the way from 2d to 3d, I hope after watching this training you will be more confident on approaching a shot. Main goal is to be the Swiss army knife of VFX, specially for Indie film makers on a tight budget.
Summary of Lessons

Keying in Nuke
Creating the background matte painting
Modeling the rock debris and animating in Autodesk Maya
Overview of the Space Ship model & UV unwrapping it
Texturing the ship in Substance Painter
Look dev our rock debris and the Space ship
Bringing all the renders to Nuke for our final Composite

Most of the Lessons Folder contains its own project files(nuke scripts,maya scenes)
Softwares Used

The Foundry Nuke
Autodesk Maya 2018
Substance Painter
Adobe Photoshop
Redshift Render Engine
PdPlayer(for previewing image sequence) not a must
Filmconvert(optional)

Who this course is for:

Aspiring students Who wish to learn the inner workings of a VFX shot. To help with your own future projects
Film makers who are interested to learn the vfx production phase
For artists who likes to be involved with all the phase of a vfx pipeline

Time: 6.5h

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Instructor Details

Abo Nabam

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Abo Nabam graduated from Vancouver Film Academy. After graduation, he participated in the production of many short films and participated in many outsourcing work. In the movie "Warcraft" as a visual artist, responsible for the VFX of the award-winning short film Metta-Via. In addition, he is also involved in the VFX projects of many short films.At present, he mostly works as a freelancer. But he also loves to create learning materials for the upcoming aspiring artists.