[Noisebridge-discuss] After Effects VFX class begins this Thursday 4/23 7-10pm

[Aaron Muszalski]

Hallo all!

Just a friendly reminder / announcement that my free class on After
Effects kicks off this week, on Thursday the 23rd from 7-10pm. It will
continue thereafter on every 1st, 2nd and 4th Thursdays (taking the
3rd Thursday off for "5 Minutes Of Fame").

Full class details can be found on the wiki at:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Professional_VFX_Compositing_With_Adobe_After_Effects

Here is the class overview, taken from the wiki:

Participants will learn how to create photo-realistic visual effects
composites using Adobe's popular After Effects software. No prior
familiarity with After Effects is required, however the techniques
involved are complex, so a general fluency in computers and graphics
software (eg Photoshop) will be a great benefit. In other words, this
is an intermediate to advanced level class.

Techniques covered will include rotoscoping and paint, motion
tracking, color correction, bluescreen and greenscreen keying, film
grain, warping, edge treatments, expressions, pre-compositions,
general compositing theory and practice, and more. A strong emphasis
will be placed on photo-realism - what it is, how to train your eye to
see it, and how to achieve it. We will also discuss the modern VFX
"pipeline" and how the various VFX disciplines function in this
pipeline.

Each student will be provided with the elements needed to produce a
"character replacement" shot: the removal of an existing character
from a scene and their replacement with a new actor who was filmed
against a greenscreen. This is a very fun project, and provides a
great framework within which to explore many of the most commonly used
techniques in visual effects compositing.

Here are some examples of similar projects created by former students of mine.

Fight Club character replacement by Samuel Plainfield
http://www.finalkeyframe.com/VFX-H.264.html

The Big Lebowski character replacement by Nathan Hackett, Vishish
Kumar and Peter Hootman
http://www.vimeo.com/3275668

The Graduate character replacement (selected shots) by Austin Eddy
http://austineddy.com/vfx.html

Beetlejuice character replacement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J2Cwq5-eqw&fmt=18

The Godfather character replacement by Raimondo Albinati
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8cf1TZbGs&fmt=18

FNORD.
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