| March 12 | spherevfx and the Canon 5D Mark III spherevfx has purchased the new Canon 5D Mark III along with a selection of new lens including:
The company has also installed a new 20" x 10" greenscreen setup including 5400k softbox lighting. This new equipment is going to be used to produce our own background plates, HDRI's and other visual effects elements for future courses. |
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| March 12 | Training and Consultancy for Romanian Company spherevfx was delighted to have worked with one of Bucharest's top film and television companies, Family Films. The training and consultancy took place running along side various projects the company had running and covered a multitude of software programs including Nuke, Maya, Mari, PFTrack, Avid and DaVinci Resolve. Subjects covered included:
On our final day we also had the opportunity to present our lecture on the History of the Visual Effects to the post production division of the company. |
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| March 12 | The VFX Show: Men in Black I and II Matt Leonard, Head of Training at spherevfx was delighted to have appeared on The VFX Show again alongside Mike Seymour and Jason Diamond. This week we discussed the 1997 Men in Black and it's 2002 sequel Men in Black II. To listen to the podcast, click here... |
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March 12 |
Update to Nuke courses spherevfx has updated it's Nuke courses adding in the new features released in v7. These include.
For more information on our Nuke courses, click here... |
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| February 12 | spherevfx Wins Two Massive Skillset Projects spherevfx is delighted to have won two huge projects from Skillset. Both aimed at staff of Skillset Media Academy's, the first project is a set of 6 classroom based courses:
The second project is a set of 15 booklets including digital assets (3D files, HDRI's, Greenscreen Footage, etc) covering a whole range of VFX subjects:
For more information on these courses visit our VFX Training the Trainers website. |
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| February 12 | Nuke Course for Russian Artist spherevfx was pleased to have taught Nuke to a Russian artist. During the course we covered a range of subjects including: 3D, Particles, Roto and Paint, Colour Correction, Keying, Tracking and Multipass Compositing. |
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| February 12 | Update to ZBrush Course spherevfx is pleased to announce the update of our ZBrush course taking into account the new features found in ZBrush 4R3. Updates include:
For more information on our ZBrush training, click here... |
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| February 12 | New Hiero Course Released spherevfx is delighted to announce the release of our one day Hiero course. Hiero is a desktop application for collaborative VFX workflow - a scriptable timeline tool that conforms edit decision lists and parcels out VFX shots to artists, allows progress to be viewed in context, and liberates your finishing systems and artists for more creative tasks. For more information on the course, click here... |
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| February 12 | The History of VFX - Presented at The Foundry spherevfx was delighted to have been asked to present our lecture on the history of the visual effects industry to over 40 people at The Foundry. The 400 slide presentation covers 136 years of VFX history including:
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| January 11 | Intermediate Nuke Course for FÁS Screen Training Ireland spherevfx was delighted to have worked with FÁS Screen Training and Windmill Lane Pictures in running an intermediate Nuke course in Dublin. The course was attended by professional artist with various compositing backgrounds including Flame, Shake and After Effects. The course covered:
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January 12 |
Nuke Training for Soho Editors spherevfx was delighted to have provided training on behalf of Soho Editors, London. The course covered:
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| January 12 | Skillset SIF Celebrations Matt Leonard, Head of training at spherevfx was pleased to have attended the SIF Celebration hosted by Skillset and supported by Warner Bros. The event celebrated the industry's investment in skills which spherevfx was apart of last year through it's Training the Trainers program in which we trained 150 University lectures in 3D, Compositing and Visual Effects. |
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| January 12 | Update to ZBrush Course spherevfx is pleased to announce the update of our ZBrush course taking into account the new features found in ZBrush 4R2b. For more information on our ZBrush training, click here... |
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| January 12 | The History of VFX - Presented at Bournemouth University spherevfx was delighted to have been asked to present our lecture on the history of the visual effects industry to students and staff at Bournemouth University. The 400 slide presentation covers 136 years of VFX history including:
To book this lecture please contact us on +44 1633 790-211 or eMail talk@spherevfx.com |
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| January 12 | spherevfx Adopts Tweak Software's RV. spherevfx has joined the likes of Industrial Light and Magic, Weta Digital and Digital Domain in adopting RV, Tweak Software's Academy Award winning sequence viewer. RV is a cross-platform, real-time, film resolution, high dynamic range, image and sequence viewer. It can play back industry standard DPX, Cineon, OpenEXR film and HD resolution sequences, QuickTime and mp4 files, (and many more formats) on a computer, through a projector, and in stereo. RV can work with RVIO, a standalone batch image processing tool which combined with RV gives users a powerful and adaptable platform for working with still and moving images. RV and RVIO were created in a high-end visual effects production environment by artists and engineers with deep roots in digital visual effects production. |
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| December 11 | Nuke Training in Rome, Italy spherevfx was very pleased to have trained artist and senior staff Nuke at Italy's largest television company, Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. The custom Nuke course was designed to help artist transition from After Effects to Nuke while working live on an inhouse project. Subjects covered included:
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| December 11 | Bespoke Nuke Training for the BBC spherevfx was delighted to have trained staff from the BBC, London. The bespoke Nuke course covered a range of topics which were taught alongside a live project running through the studio. Subjects included:
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| December 11 | After Effects Training in Manchester spherevfx was pleased to have trained senior staff once again at HGA Creative an award winning marketing, communications & design agency with over 20 years worth of experience. The course covered many areas of After Effects including:
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| December 11 | Nuke Training in London spherevfx was delighted to have worked with Academy Class to provide a three day Nuke course. The course covered:
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| December 11 | Matt Leonard joins the Visual Effects Society Matt Leonard, Head of Training at spherevfx was thrilled to have been voted onto the VES (Visual Effects Society). The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry's only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games. Comprised of a diverse group of more than 2,300 members in 26 countries, the VES strives to enrich and educate its own members and members of the entertainment community at large through a multitude of domestic and international events, screenings and programs. |
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| November 11 | The VFX Show: 'Anonymous' Matt Leonard, Head of Training at spherevfx was excited to have appeared on The VFX Show, alongside Mike Seymour and Mark Christiansen discussing Roland Emmerich’s film Anonymous and Uncharted Territory’s work on the visual effects in the film. For additional coverage of Anonymous head on over to fxguidetv #125 where fxguide talks to Uncharted Territory visual effects supervisors Marc Weigert and Volker Engel about their work on the film. To listen to the podcast, click here... |
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| November 11 | Winter 2011 Wall Paper Released A new spherevfx wallpaper has been released with images from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Brave, The Hunger Games, Immortals, Snow White and the Huntsman, Underworld Awakening, Red Tails, Puss in Boots, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadow,The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Hugo, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Marvel's The Avengers, Battleship, John Carter, Frankenweenie, The Amazing Spider-Man, Arthur Christmas, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, The Thing and Piranha 3DD. To download click here... |
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| November 11 | Ocula Course Updated spherevfx has updated it's Ocula course covering the new features of version 3.0. Refined in production on ground breaking live action stereo projects including Avatar, TRON: Legacy, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Ocula provides artists with a set of Nuke tools that assist with the integration of elements and help correct common stereo-3D defects. For more information on the course, click here... |
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| November 11 | Nuke Advanced, Bournemouth University and Ravensbourne spherevfx was delighted to have train staff from Bournemouth University, Kingston, University of Bradford, Ravensbourne and Plymouth University. The advanced course covered:
For more information on the course, click here... |
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| November 11 | Maya at Ravensbourne, London spherevfx was delighted to have run at Maya Shaders and UV course at Ravensbourne for staff from Central Saint Martins, Bournemouth and Ravensbourne. The course covered:
For more information on the course, click here... |
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| November 11 | New V-Ray Course ! spherevfx was delighted to announce our new V-Ray for Maya course. Used by some of the top visual effects studios such as Digital Domain, Method Studios, Zoic, Prime Focus, Scanline VFX and Pixomondo, our new course covers such features as the CarPaint Material, V-Ray Light Select Render Element, PText texture, true 3D Motion Blur, Sun & Sky procedural lighting system, Physical camera for matching live footage, and more. For more information on the course, click here... |
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| October 11 | Nuke at Ravensbourne, London spherevfx was very pleased to have train staff from Ravensbourne, Southampton Solent University, Bournemouth University and the University of Brandford. The Nuke course covered:
For more information on the course, click here... |
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| October 11 | Mari at The ATRiuM spherevfx was pleased to have run another course in The Foundry's Mari for staff from Swansea Metropolitan University and University of Glamorgan. The course covered:
For more information on the course, click here... |
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| October 11 | New Maya 103 course at fxphd Matt Leonard, Head of Training at spherevfx, is delighted to be running a new Maya 103 course 'Introduction to Maya 2012' - Part 1 (Part 2 comes in January 2012). The course will lay the groundwork by focusing on a single project called ‘A Robot’s Surf Shack’. We'll be cover modeling, animation, lighting, shaders and working with cameras along with rendering, render passes, and finally a small section covering compositing which will be done in Nuke. Throughout the term we'll be looking at many of the new features found in Maya 2012 including ‘Alembic’ I/O, the Camera Sequencer, the Node Editor, and ‘Ptex’ support. For more details, click here... |
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| October 11 | Ben Greasley joins spherevfx spherevfx is delighted to have Ben Greasley joining the company as a Visual Effects Trainer. Ben has been in production for nearly a decade working in 3D, Compositing and Photography. With a broad understanding of the entire VFX pipeline and specifically Modeling, Lighting and Compositing, Ben will be a fantastic asset to the company. Some of the tools Ben has used over the years include:
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| September 11 | Matt Leonard joins The VFX Show as a co-host Matt Leonard, Head of Training at spherevfx, is very excited about joining the team of host for The VFX Show. This week we discussed the Blu-ray release of Star Wars, along with co-host Mike Seymour and Marc Wielage. The show is now in its 133rd episode and covers all the major VFX films being released and also 'reto' shows from days gone by. For more details, click here... |
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| September 11 | 3D Tracking Course spherevfx has run a custom 3D Tracking course for university lectures from across the country. Lectures came from Cardiff, Bournemouth, Bradford, Swansea and Salford to look at the tracking pipeline from PFTrack & Matchmover, Maya and finally into Nuke. The course covered:
For more information on the course, click here... |
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| September 11 | ZBrush Course at The ATRiuM and Bourenmouth spherevfx was delighted to have taught ZBrush to lectures from University of Glamorgan, Swansea Metropolitan University, University Of Wales, Bournemouth University and Teesside University. The course covered a wide array for techniques including:
For more information on the course, click here... |
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