Learn How To Make Visual Effects at NYFA
The 1-Week Visual Effects Workshop is an intensive hands-on exploration of Adobe After Effects, a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application. This workshop, held at our NYFA Florence campus, introduces students to the tools and skills necessary to create impressive visual effects and digital image manipulation. No prior experience is required to attend.
Workshop DescriptionWorkshop Name: 1-Week Visual Effects Workshop
In this hands-on workshop, students complete a series of specific projects, with plenty of room for exploration and experimentation. Central to NYFA’s philosophy of learning by doing, students learn the craft of visual effects through hands-on instruction and continuous practical exercises. Every day of the workshop, students can expect to be actively creating, manipulating, editing, and assessing VFX imagery. Students expand their repertoire of fundamental and advanced techniques, including keying, tracking, compositing, and animation. The program is constructed to deliver a great deal of content in just one week, and students cover topics such as:
- COMPOSITING
Understanding compositing fundamentals opens the door to your creativity. In this 1-Week workshop, you will learn how to combine visual elements from separate sources into single images, creating the illusion that these elements are part of the same scene. - 2.5D ANIMATION
Learn the process, 2.5D animation used to make images or scenes that simulate the appearance of being three-dimensional. Students will bring still images to life by creating a false perspective and also learn how to animate cameras for creating distance parallax. - VISUAL EFFECTS
Students will learn the key components of creating incredible visual effects such as camera tracking, particle systems, image masking, and more to create common cinematic effects including fire, explosions, set extensions, fog, rain, and snow, as well learn how to use color correction, look up tables, use green screen footage, animation effects, digital distortion, screen and monitor image replacement, create planets and space imagery, energy portals, and even the ability to turn people into dust clouds!
NYFA also offers the possibility to learn 3D Animation and VFX from anywhere through a variety of online 3D Animation and VFX workshops.
To learn more about NYFA’s 3D animation and visual effects workshops, see NYFA’s Course Catalog or request more information.
In the 1-Week Animation Workshop, students get an introduction to animation through hands-on projects. To learn more about the projects at NYFA’s animation school, visit the projects page.
This workshop is not offered in 2023. Please see the 3D Animation & VFX School page for more programs.
Please note: Equipment, curriculum, and projects are subject to change and may vary depending on location. Students should consult the most recently published campus catalog for the most up-to-date curriculum.
