[Noisebridge-discuss] [Invitation] After Effects VFX class @ Thu Apr 23 7:30pm – 10pm (noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net)

[Aaron Muszalski]

noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net, you are invited to

Title: After Effects VFX class
Time: Thu Apr 23 7:30pm – 10pm (Timezone: Pacific Time)
Where: Noisebridge
Calendar: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
Owner/Creator: sfslim at gmail.com

Description: 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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