Visual Effects Masterclass: 3dsMax + PFTrack + After Effects

Visual Effects Masterclass: 3dsMax + PFTrack + After Effects

Kickstart your career in Visual Effects - No Film School and No Visual Effects Experience required!

Have you ever wanted to do your own Visual Effects or maybe dream about working for a major VFX Studio in Hollywood? Well now you can learn all the basic skills to get you started! This course will give you the all building blocks that will allow you to start using Adobe After Effects, 3dsmax and also PFTrack to create your own amazing Visual Effects - Hollywood Style.

You will also get to use the amazing V-Ray Renderer for 3dsmax which is used widely in the Visual Effects industry as well as in the Gaming world!

You can download trial versions of the applications used here:

PFTrack: http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/pftrack/
After Effects: https://www.adobe.com/africa/products/aftereffects/free-trial-download.html
3dsmax: https://www.autodesk.co.za/products/3ds-max/free-trial

Required assets can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uKggMSLKItj3chbs9Ifo5i_AQTr8tFl1?usp=sharing

What you will learn:

• Autodesk 3dsmax
  • Creating Geometry
  • Subdivision Modeling
  • Animation and Keyframes
  • Texturing and the Material Editor
  • The Active-shade Renderer
  • The V-ray Renderer
  • MassFX Physics Engine
  • Lighting and Shadows
  • The Graph Editor
  • Importing 3D Models
  • How to use Tracking Data from PFTrack
  • Rendering
• Adobe After Effects
  • After Effects Basics
  • Working with Layers
  • Applying Effects to Layers
  • Masks & Rotoscoping
  • Compositing
  • Animation and Keyframes
  • Color Grading
  • Chroma Keying
  • Tracking (2D and 3D)
  • and much more!!

• PFTrack
  • User Track and Auto Track nodes
  • Solving the Camera
  • Orienting The Scene
  • Using Test Objects
  • Exporting Tracking Data to 3dsmax
  • and of-course much much more!

After each chapter you will do a very exciting mini project with me, to ensure that you understand everything that was covered in that specific lecture before we move on to the next.

I will provide you with sample footage / graphics / 3d models and more, that we will use during this course. You can find these assets in the Class Project section.

The total running time of this course is 4 Hours and 33 Minutes!!!

Get ready to begin your career in VFX right NOW!

Please upload your class project deliverable as mp4 to the Skillshare project gallery for review! You can find the details regarding the project under Class Project.

• Introduction
• Software Requirements
• 3dsmax - The User Interface
• 3dsmax - Real World Scale
• 3dsmax - Creating Basic Geometry
• 3dsmax - Move Rotate Scale Group and Clone
• 3dsmax - Using Helpers
• 3dsmax - The Modify Panel
• 3dsmax - Subdivision Modeling
• 3dsmax - The Vray Renderer
• 3dsmax - Creating A Camera
• 3dsmax - The ActiveShade Renderer
• 3dsmax - The Material Editor
• 3dsmax - Lights And Shadows
• 3dsmax - Animation and Keyframes
• 3dsmax - The Curve Editor
• 3dsmax - MassFX Basics
• 3dsmax - Rendering Image Sequences
• 3dsmax - Mini Project
• After Effects - The User Interface
• After Effects - Working With Layers
• After Effects - Applying Effects
• After Effects - Animation and Keyframes
• After Effects - Masks and Rotoscoping
• After Effects - Motion Tracking
• After Effects - The Camera Tracker
• After Effects - Chroma Keying
• After Effects - Color Grading
• After Effects - Rendering
• After Effects - Mini Project
• PFTrack - Introduction
• PFTrack - UserTrack and AutoTrack
• PFTrack - Orient Scene and Test Objects
• PFTrack - Export Tracking Data
• After Effects - Convert Footage To Image Sequence
• 3dsmax - Import Tracking Data From PFTrack
• 3dsmax - Import Image Sequence
• 3dsmax - Import and Position CG Objects
• 3dsmax - Apply Animation To CG Objects
• 3dsmax - Adding Lights To Our Scene
• 3dsmax - Create Shadow Catcher
• 3dsmax - Rendering an Image Sequence
• After Effects - Import Assets For Compositing
• After Effects - Match 3D Render With Footage
• After Effects - Color Grading Our Composition
• After Effects - Render Final Project
• Thanks For Watching