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          | Master VFX Compositing and Foundry Certified Nuke®  Trainer, Steve Wright, delivers visual
              effects compositing, Nuke,
              Ocula, Mocha, 3D Conversion
               and Shake training
              for  artists in the VFX industry around the world.
              With curricula developed by this senior visual effects artist
              with over 20 years of production experience and excellent teaching
              skills, these programs are designed to be very accessible and
              cost effective. Steve not only teaches individuals
              in classroom settings and online, but he also travels to VFX
              facilities around the world to train the staff in skills
              & compositing techniques gleaned
              from those  years of production experience 
          as well as to improve the facility's 2D/3D production pipeline productivity.  |  
        
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              your skill set to Nuke,
              the academy award winning feature film compositing system developed
              by Digital Domain and now supported by The Foundry. Nuke's superior
              integration with the 3D production pipeline makes it the program
              of choice for VFX studios that want to modernize their compositing.
              Steve creates a training program unique to each facility's needs.
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              travels to VFX facilities around the
              world to provide stereo 3D conversion
              training tailored to the
              needs of their staff. Mocha rotoscoping techniques that increase
              accuracy and productivity plus Nuke compositing techniques for
              stereo workflow, including keying and the creation of clean plates,
          are core skills for this exciting new industry.  |  
          |  | Steve
              travels to VFX facilities around the world to provide Mocha
              rotoscope training  tailored to the needs
              of their staff. A firm
              grounding in Mocha's planar tracker plus proper rotoscoping techniques
              will improve the output and quality of your rotoscoping artists.
              You can see Steve's Mocha
          tutorials on Imagineer's website.  |  
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              travels to VFX facilities around the
              world to provide VFX Compositing
              training for their staff. This is skills training in the technique
              and art of feature film VFX compositing for bluescreen and 3D composting. With
              20 years of production experience compositing feature film FX,
              this training is grounded in the real world of production and will
              increase your artists productivity, technical and artistic skills. |  
          |  |  Learn Shake
                , Nuke
                 or Mocha at your own pace with 20+
                  year VFX veteran Steve Wright as your instructor on Lynda.com.
                  The Shake 4.1 training has 13.25 hours to get you up
                to speed on node based compositing. If you want a serious VFX
          job in this industry, you must understand node based compositing! Already
                node savvy, then learn Nuke5 with
          10 hours of instruction or the new features of Nuke6 today! |  
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              eight-week workshops are done at your own pace and offer personal
              one-on-one training for Nuke or Shake.
              Steve will review each of your project assignments with you personally
              to offer suggestions, tips, techniques, and answer any questions
          you have using remote screen-sharing technology. It's like having Steve
              sitting right next to you as your personal VFX Supervisor! |  
          |  |  Periodically,
              Steve conducts training classes and
              workshops in various locations
              in the US and around the world. Some are week-long workshops and
              others are 2 or 3-day weekend classes with project media you can
              add to your demo reel. Come learn from the guru who wrote the book
              that has become the industry standard for compositors and increase
              your job potential! |  
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              get a job an any VFX studio you have to show them your demo
              reel              with a breakdown of your work. These programs
              provide project media with a finished shot video so you can build
              the shot yourself and put it on your demo reel. Included are tips
          on how to present your demo reel and shot breakdowns.  |  
          |  |  Steve
              has authored two best selling books on the subject of compositing
              visual effects in addition to his other training products. Be sure
              to check out the 80
              FREE production exercises that
              work with "Digital
              Compositing for Film and Video" 3rd edition which
              you can access from our store just by creating a log in account! |  
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 |  | REMOTE STAFF TRAINING for ANIBRAIN in PUNE, INDIA!
 
  Steve is conducting remote compositing training for the senior staff of Anibrain in Pune, India. Anibrain Team Leaders present Steve with extremely difficult production shots from their recent productions; Steve works up the solutions offline and then in a remote training session he reveals the solution and teaches the Team Leads how to use these advanced keying techniques. 
 STEVE RECEIVES SMPTE  KODAK EDUCATIONAL AWARD
 
 Established in 2010, The Kodak Educational Award, sponsored by Eastman   Kodak Company, honors the recipient by recognizing outstanding   contributions in new or unique educational programs. This award   recognizes an individual who advances the educational process at any   level through innovative and inspirational methods.
 
 "I am very honored to have won the SMPTE Kodak Educational Award    and to be recognized by SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television   Engineers) who are the innovative scientists and engineers who set the   world standards for film and television."
 
 |  ACES Color Management - Op-Ed
 
  In  the last several years the subject of color management has become a colossal  issue in the visual effects community, and for two distinctly different  reasons. The first is that a modern visual effects project will get images from  a wide variety of cameras and sources, so how do we get all of these different  images to play nice together in a shot? Secondly, how can you render  photorealistic CGI for a movie when the live action clips you need to match to  bounce around in different color spaces? The answer is ACES, the Academy Color  Encoding Specification, that promises to unify all images into a... Read more at ACES Color Management. 
 
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              .2nd
                edition of "Compositing
                Visual Effects" is now available at Amazon.com!
                New material on 3D
                compositing, stereo compositing, planar tracking, digital capture
                and more!! Order
                your copy today!
July 25-28 - Attending SIGGRAPH in Anaheim, CA.July 31 - Steve will be a  speaker at the Classic Gaming Fest in Austin, TX.October 1 - Release of Master VFX Course: Keying on lynda.com. Follow Steve on Lynda.com to be notified when it is released.Oct 17 - Nov 21 - Steve is teaching Advanced Compositing Techniques via remote distance learning to Anibrain in Pune, India.June 2017 - Steve will be a  speaker at the NAB Show Shanghai in China.
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