The advanced certificate course in Visual Effects at FX School
is an industry aligned course.
It enables the students to seamlessly fit into the pipeline
and do their task with, you know confidence.
I think the most important aspect of FX School 
is that you don't feel restricted in terms of expressing your creativity.
The environment it has or the infrastructure it has, you feel free to work.
We start right from the basics.
We try to inculcate in the students that VFX is not always 
aliens disintegrating people 
but also things which look invisible 
but are a very you know integral part of that scene.
 
In Foundation we start with Photoshop. 
In Photoshop they learn tools and techniques.
After they are done with the tool and techniques, 
They go further and start doing matte painting.
As we begin the course I teach them the basics of After Effects, how to navigate through the software
and simple animations with text.
And after that we get into more hardcore VFX 
like cleanup, roto-ing, tracking.
From there we move on to Nuke. 
When they come into Nuke, already their core concepts are clearer.
It’s easier for them to understand things like chroma keying, tracking
in Nuke because their concepts are clear in After Effects.
Once that is done. We move on to a few more complex topics like camera projection,
CG compositing, rotoscoping, which are all covered in Nuke.
I think there are a lot of opportunities in this field and 
someone wants to get into hardcore visual effects 
he and she can go and work for these big studios,
you start as a roto artist and then you jump ranks and become a compositor.
Also they can work for small studios.
He or she gathers more experience that way because in a small studio you have to do a lot of stuff
and not just the role that’s given to you. 
The best part about this field is,
there are a lot of movies, TV shows as well as tons of streaming content
which uses VFX, hence creating tons of job opportunities.
