VFX (CG)

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VFX (CG)

COURSE OVERVIEW

Are you serious about a career in VFX? 

This course has a proven track record of providing the next generation of VFX professionals, the majority of which go straight into key roles on major productions. If you are determined to succeed in this thriving industry - this is the course for you.

The Rookies Award for 'Production Excellence - Visual Effects' 2023

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"One of the most unique things about the course is that it’s extremely collaborative and you really get to know the pipeline and how a VFX studio would operate in the Industry."

Daniel Peoples
2023 Graduate

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Visual Effects (VFX) are everywhere – from independent films to blockbuster productions, from commercials to games and immersive content. This course gives you extensive, practical training on real sets, in a VFX and animation studio, and in cutting-edge grading and finishing suites.

You'll learn essential 2D and 3D VFX techniques, using the latest available software and camera technology and be taught by current industry artists, technicians and supervisors. In your second year, you will go on to specialise in CG 3D.

Collaboration is a key part of the course - you'll work alongside those in other specialisms at the NFTS including compositors and colour graders to make film, TV, games and other practical projects, putting into practice the skills you've learnt throughout the course.

 

COURSE FACILITIES

Our Visual Effects Labs are cutting-edge, with workstations for each student. Each machine has the latest 3D and compositing software, including Maya, Nuke and Houdini.

Funding Available

The NFTS awards more scholarships and bursaries to British students, relative to the size of our student body, than almost any other educational institution in the UK. If you’re successful at gaining a place on the course, you will be contacted by our funding team with details on how to apply for one of these scholarships.

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Mission: Possible

VFX students take part in a number of exercises throughout the year, often in collaboration with students in other disciplines. 

Model Making for Animation Diploma students crafted a 1:6 scale replica of a set from the original Mission: Impossible film, which was then bought to life in collaboration with VFX MA students.

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Watch the behind the scenes of Mission: Possible, the incredible miniature replica set project with NFTS Model Making Diploma students.

Read more about this brilliant project vie befores & afters: beforesandafters.com/2023/03/23/these-students-made-an-insane-replica-miniature-cia-vault-from-mission-impossible/

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Reality Heist (Trailer)

Reality Heist is a five-minute original story of a scientist who finds after some experimentation with a mix of technology, she can skip dimensions at the flick of a switch. The film, created by VFX students, blends traditionally post rendered photoreal CG with the new real time, in camera VFX.

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2001: A Space Odyssey - An Out of This World Replica Set Build!

VFX students take part in a number of exercises throughout the year, often in collaboration with students in other disciplines. 

Model Making for Animation Diploma students crafted a 1:6 scale replica of a set from 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, which was bought to life in collaboration with VFX MA students.

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Behind The Scenes with NFTS VFX - Reality Heist

Visual Effects MA students experimented with ground-breaking technology to bring Reality Heist to life, an original five-minute film that uses cutting-edge Virtual Production techniques. 

Graduate Success

The course has an excellent graduate employment rate, providing the Industry with the next generation of VFX professionals, who go onto key roles on major productions.

Recent credits include...

Napoleon

VFX Supervisor: One Of Us Victor Tomi
Visual Effects Coordinator Amy Gibson

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Graduate Success

The course has an excellent graduate employment rate, providing the Industry with the next generation of VFX professionals, who go onto key roles on major productions.

Recent credits include...

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

Postvis Artist Paul Robinson

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Graduate Success

The course has an excellent graduate employment rate, providing the Industry with the next generation of VFX professionals, who go onto key roles on major productions.

Recent credits include...

House of the Dragon

Visual Effects Artist Jakob Lundbye

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Graduate Success

The course has an excellent graduate employment rate, providing the Industry with the next generation of VFX professionals, who go onto key roles on major productions.

Recent credits include...

No Time To Die

Visual Effects Artist Shivani Shah

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