Gress, J: [digital] Visual Effects and Compositing

Introduction PART 1: CONCEPTS OF VISUAL EFFECTS AND COMPOSITING Chapter 01 - Film and Video Primer Bootcamp for VFX The History of Visual Effects Principles of Motion Pictures and VFX In The Beginning - In Camera and Special Effects Visual Effects (VFX) Concepts Chapter 02 - Intro to VFX - Advanced Photoshop for 3D and VFX - Digital Compositing Basic Compositing 2D VFX Compositing Applications Keying Types and Concepts Chapter 03 - Rotoscoping, Motion Tracking and 2D Matchmoving Roto 2D Motion Tracking 2D Matchmoving Chapter 04 - 3D For VFX 3D Applications 3D Motion Tracking 3D Motion Tracking Applications 3D Matchmoving PART 2: VISUAL EFFECTS TECHNIQUES Chapter 05 - Basic Integration VFX CG Lighting and Integration 2D Motion Tracking and CG Integration Roto VFX - Energy Weapons Basic 2.5D VFX Fake Shadows and Reflections Chapter 06 - Advanced Integration and Card Trick VFX Advanced Procedural Color Matching Live Action Footage Fine Tune Integration - Grain Match and Light Wraps 2D and 2.5D Crowd Replication Face Replacement Card Tricks Chapter 07 - 3D VFX 3D Tracking and Matchmoving CG Hand 3D Tracking - Matchimation 3D Object Tracking and Replacement Faking Z- Depth and Ambient Occlusion Chapter 08 - 2.5D VFX 2.5D Atmosphere FX 2.5D Smoke - Cloud FX Fake Birds 2D and 3D Displacement FX - Water, Heat, Cloak Multipass Rendering and Compositing 2D, 2.5D and 3D Particle Systems and Voxelbased Rendering Chapter 09 - Bread and Butter VFX Sky Replacements Day for Night - Winter for Summer FX Digital HUD Creation Wire and Rig Removal Time Ramping PART 3: ADVANCED VISUAL EFFECTS TECHNIQUES Chapter 10 - Digital Matte Painting and Environment VFX 2.5D Compositing Digital Matte Painting and Set Extensions 2D - 3D - 2.5D Advanced 2.5D Camera Movement 2.5D Digital Matte Paintings and Camera Projections Digital Environments Digital Environment Applications Virtual Studio Chapter 11 - Beauty and Restoration VFX Film Colorization Digital Beauty Advanced Lighting and Rendering

With over 25 years of digital & visual special effects, film, video, audio, and multimedia production experience, writer/producer/director and visual effects producer Jon Gress is one of the new breed of independent filmmakers who can write, shoot, direct, edit, and produce Hollywood sized digital & visual special effects. Jon has been on the cutting edge of digital production technologies since their beginnings and has taught production and software applications courses in Visual Effects, Compositing, Filmmaking, VFX Supervision, the entire Adobe Production Suite, Nuke, Fusion, Lightwave 3D, 3D Studio Max, PF Track, Boujou, Mocha Pro, RealFlow, Turbulence FD, Digital Matte Painting and UDK & Unity game engines. He has trained hundreds of visual effects artists, who have gone on to secure jobs in top visual effects companies all over the world and have worked on movies, including Titanic, The Expendables, Harry Potter, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Avengers, Avatar, Gulliver's Travels, Beowulf and many more. He has created productions for many multinational and Fortune 500 clients and is writer/producer/director of the upcoming independent sci-fi feature trilogy Anunnaki - The Movie.