Steve Wright's VFXIO.com - Insdustrial Strength Training for Visual Effects Compositing Artists!

Saturday, 28 January 2012

 
Steve Wright's VFXIO.com's mission statement

Master Trainer, Steve Wright, delivers visual effects compositing, Nuke, Mocha, 3D Conversion and Shake training for artists in the VFX industry around the world. With curricula developed by this senior visual effects artist with over 20 years of production experience and excellent teaching skills, these programs are designed to be very accessible and cost effective. Steve not only teaches individuals in classroom settings and online, but he also travels to VFX facilities around the world to train the staff in skills & compositing techniques gleaned from those years of production experience as well as to improve the facility's 2D/3D production pipeline productivity.

Update your skill set to Nuke, the academy award winning feature film compositing system developed by Digital Domain and now supported by The Foundry. Nuke's superior integration with the 3D production pipeline makes it the program of choice for VFX studios that want to modernize their compositing. Steve creates a training program unique to each facility's needs.

Steve travels to VFX facilities around the world to provide stereo 3D conversion training tailored to the needs of their staff. Mocha rotoscoping techniques that increase accuracy and productivity plus Nuke compositing techniques for stereo workflow, including keying and the creation of clean plates, are core skills for this exciting new industry.

Steve travels to VFX facilities around the world to provide Mocha rotoscope training tailored to the needs of their staff. A firm grounding in Mocha's planar tracker plus proper rotoscoping techniques will improve the output and quality of your rotoscoping artists. You can see Steve's Mocha tutorials on Imagineer's website.

Steve travels to VFX facilities around the world to provide VFX Compositing training for their staff. This is skills training in the technique and art of feature film VFX compositing for bluescreen and 3D composting. With 20 years of production experience compositing feature film FX, this training is grounded in the real world of production and will increase your artists productivity, technical and artistic skills.

Learn Shake , Nuke or Mocha at your own pace with 20+ year VFX veteran Steve Wright as your instructor on Lynda.com. The Shake 4.1 training has 13.25 hours to get you up to speed on node based compositing. If you want a serious VFX job in this industry, you must understand node based compositing! Already node savvy, then learn Nuke5 with 10 hours of instruction or the new features of Nuke6 today!

These eight-week workshops are done at your own pace and offer personal one-on-one training for Nuke or Shake. Steve will review each of your project assignments with you personally to offer suggestions, tips, techniques, and answer any questions you have using remote screen-sharing technology. It's like having Steve sitting right next to you as your personal VFX Supervisor!

Periodically, Steve conducts training classes and workshops in various locations in the US and around the world. Some are week-long workshops and others are 2 or 3-day weekend classes with project media you can add to your demo reel. Come learn from the guru who wrote the book that has become the industry standard for compositors and increase your job potential!

To get a job an any VFX studio you have to show them your demo reel with a breakdown of your work. These programs provide project media with a finished shot video so you can build the shot yourself and put it on your demo reel. Included are tips on how to present your demo reel and shot breakdowns.

Steve has authored two best selling books on the subject of compositing visual effects in addition to his other training products. Be sure to check out the 80 FREE production exercises that work with "Digital Compositing for Film and Video" 3rd edition which you can access from our store just by creating a log in account!

   

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3-DAY LOS ANGELES NUKE INTENSIVE!
Future-proof your compositing career by learning Nuke! Power up on Nuke with Steve's 3-day Nuke intensive on Feb 24th - 26th hosted by Motion Media in Santa Monica, CA. This is a unique opportunity to quickly come up to speed on Nuke as taught by a master trainer and VFX compositing expert!

A $100 discount is available for LA ACM SIGGRAPH, VES, DMA/LA, LAPPG & DCS members. To claim your $100 discount, send an email to Motion Media here, with your name, membership number and affiliation so that your membership in one of the above groups can be confirmed.

ROADSHOW: NUKE for AE USERS in SEATTLE!
Join Steve in Seattle, WA where Motion Media has invited him to speak about Nuke. The event will be held at the Adobe Systems offices on February 9th & 10th. Steve will be demonstrating Nuke techniques for After Effects users. For more information send an email to Motion Media here with a subject line of "Nuke in Seattle".

"GAME ON" Op-Ed Piece
If you want to do world class visual effects then the only place to be is in feature films, right? Not any more. Video games are rapidly stepping up the quality and complexity of their visual effects simply because it makes them a lot of money. We all know that “Deathly Hollows part 2” is the current record holder for fastest selling film at the box office at $169 million its first weekend. You may not know that Harry Potter was crushed like a bug by the release of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” (Activision) just this last November with sales of $750 million its first 5 days.. Read more at Game On


  • 2nd edition of "Compositing Visual Effects" is now available at Amazon.com! New material on 3D compositing, stereo compositing, planar tracking, digital capture and more!! Order your copy today!
  • January 16 - February 24 - Steve conducts a brand new six week Nuke 3D Compositing workshop hosted by CGSociety.
  • February 9 & 10 - Steve to demo Nuke at Motion Media's Seattle, Washington event. Contact Motion Media for more info.
  • February 24- 26 - Steve teaches a 3-day Nuke Intensive at Motion Media's Santa Monica office. Contact Motion Media for more info.
  • February 27 - March 23 - Rotoscoping in Mocha four week workshop hosted by CGSociety.
  • March 5 - 23 - Steve conducts a brand new 3 week Nuke 6.3 Features workshop hosted by CGSociety.
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