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Short Courses and Seminars at AFTRS, July-August |
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Written by Aran Major
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
Short Courses and Seminars for the digital industry at AFTRS Sydney, July-August
Courses fill fast so enrol soon to ensure your place. A brief course description is below. For full course details and to enrol please click on the links:
Matte Painting / Advanced Photoshop
2 days, 10am-5pm, 30 & 31 July, 2007, $500
A comprehensive overview of matte painting techniques suitable for compositing with live action or computer-generated images. Rose Draper, course director, is a compositor and VFX artist with credits including Hunt Angels, Revealing Gallipoli, and Vietnam Nurses.
After Effects Compositing
4 days, 10am-5pm, 21, 22, 28, 29, August, 2007, $850
A detailed introduction to desktop compositing for moving images using Adobe After Effects 7 Production Bundle. Belinda Bennetts, course director, is a titles designer and visual effects art director and supervisor with credits including: Charlotte Gray, Moulin Rouge, Wildside and The Truman Show.
SPECIAL EVENT at Museum of Sydney:
The Digital Factor - Empowering Your Storytelling with Visual Effects
Seminar, 10am-4pm, 17 August, 2007, $75
Escape limiting fears about what you think you can afford and find out how you can use visual effects to drive your story's themes, visual power and resonance. Shilo McClean, author of "Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film", will present this seminar with a range of guest filmmakers and digital effects artists who will discuss their work in digital VFX, storytelling and the collaborative process.
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