Taught by Enzo Tedeschi FCP213 will take you through some of the basics and some of the intricacies of Final Cut Pro. As with any other post-production tool true value comes from its proper use within a well-designed workflow. So in addition to a bit of "what does this button do" Enzo will more importantly be talking about Final Cut Pros place within the larger context of a production as well as more creative editing techniques for storytelling. While this course will slightly touch on items covered in our other FCP offerings with a new prof comes new and interesting perspectives. Tedeschi is an Editor whose ten-year body of work covers drama documentary television series and commercials.

Run by Professor Gary M. Davis - this course opens the door to 3D for those who might have always been keen to learn but found 3D intimidating. Gary does international training for Autodesk and is an expert in 3d Max, Combustion and Toxik. These accelerated session focus on 3ds Max but will also address compositing issues using Autodesk Combustion. That being said, these aspects easily apply to using any compositing application you might currently be utilizing in your facility. These classes were specifically designed for individuals with existing compositing and/or editing experience looking to add 3ds Max to their toolkit.

In this follow up to Introduction to Math (MTH101) - one of our most successful courses of the last few terms - Mike Seymour and Steve Anderson tackle Physics 101. This course is designed to give you the basis in reality to understand real world phenomenon such as inertia, how to fly, fluid sims, and breaking stuff up.

This course will teach techniques and concepts for rendering realistic, physically based CG elements in a visual effects context (i.e. for integration into live action shots). As it is a hands-on course in using Mental Ray to do these things, it will start with a fundamental treatment of everything from light and pixels through to cameras, response curves and compositing, as well as "learning to see". The course will be performed using the 3ds Max application, but most things apply to Maya and Softimage as well.

Physical simulations are cool, most of us in vfx think so anyway. Once you know the basics of how to set them up in a software package, you could spend hours watching them tick along, doing randomly cool things. Whats tough is making simulations do what you need for a shot. It isnt good enough that the results look damn sweet, but they have to look damn sweet while doing what the agency approved in the boards.

The APU tutorial set shows you the entire end to end process of creating to movie grade CG models using 3ds Max plus it shows you how to create an environment, a pilot and many other useful skills.
Using these skills you will be able to take your own concepts or designs and create dramatic, detailed and rigged animatable mechanical pieces for your own projects, whether it be in a studio or for your own portfolio or projects collection. The 3d-Palace APU set is one of the most famous and well sold training sets around; it was the first ever end to end tutorial that was over 20 hours in length and you too can purchase this as a digital download or as a DVD to start learning from today.

The merging of Tony Robbinss innovations on business and Chet Holmess nuts and bolts, and step-by-step training on how to systematically grow any company, made this exactly as promised: The worlds most complete and comprehensive business growth training program.