Course starts 25 August 2008.

Registration: Closed

Do you want to jump head first into digital compositing? Because CGSociety is thrilled to repeat Compositing with Shake with Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and digital compositing author Steve Wright. Steve is a senior industry veteran in digital compositing with over 60 impressive film credits such as Blade: Trinity, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One and many, many more.

Drawing on his vast years of experience, Steve will guide and mentor students on the powers of digital compositing with Shake 4.1. (used by Weta on Lord of the Rings) This course is designed for those that are new to Shake or new to digital compositing and works through the core competencies required for compositing visual effects shots today. Each week you will download training videos along with exercise footage that will walk you through compositing bluescreen and greenscreen shots, CGI elements and digital matte paintings. The workshop then goes on to build basic skills for creating photorealistic composites as well as rotoscoping and matte extraction challenges that use high quality feature film elements provided by Steve.

An added bonus is that shots completed in Steve's workshop can be added to the students showreel because the source elements are from Steve's own personal library of feature film scans and HiDef video and have no copyright constraints.

Steve travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, produces training programs, and has written a highly successful book on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video with his second edition available now.

"Steve is a superb instructor and it was a pleasure to learn from him.."
Igor Majdandzic, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

"All of the knowledge that Steve provided. It was well worth the money paid and the information was basically priceless."
Christopher Povinelli, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

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Course starts 18 February 2008.

Registration: Closed

Do you want to jump head first into digital compositing? Because CGSociety is thrilled to repeat Compositing with Shake with Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and digital compositing author Steve Wright. Steve is a senior industry veteran in digital compositing with over 60 impressive film credits such as Blade: Trinity, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One and many, many more.

Drawing on his vast years of experience, Steve will guide and mentor students on the powers of digital compositing with Shake 4.1. As Apple’s Shake has recently been reduced to US$499, it makes this compositing program (used by Weta on Lord of the Rings) available to virtually anybody interested in high quality digital compositing of visual effects shots.

This course is designed for those that are new to Shake or new to digital compositing and works through the core competencies required for compositing visual effects shots today. Each week you will download training videos along with exercise footage that will walk you through compositing bluescreen and greenscreen shots, CGI elements and digital matte paintings. The workshop then goes on to build basic skills for creating photorealistic composites as well as rotoscoping and matte extraction challenges that use high quality feature film elements provided by Steve.

An added bonus is that shots completed in Steve's workshop can be added to the students showreel because the source elements are from Steve's own personal library of feature film scans and HiDef video and have no copyright constraints.

Steve travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, produces training programs, and has written a highly successful book on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video with his second edition available now.

"Steve is a superb instructor and it was a pleasure to learn from him.."
Igor Majdandzic, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

"All of the knowledge that Steve provided. It was well worth the money paid and the information was basically priceless."
Christopher Povinelli, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

More information >>

Course starts 17 September 2007.

Registration: Closed

Do you want to jump head first into digital compositing? Because CGSociety is thrilled to add digital compositing to our lineup of CG Workshops with Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and digital compositing author Steve Wright. Steve is a senior industry veteran in digital compositing with over 60 impressive film credits such as Blade: Trinity, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One and many, many more.

Drawing on his vast years of experience, Steve will guide and mentor students on the powers of digital compositing with Shake 4.1. As Apple’s Shake has recently been reduced to US$499, it makes this compositing program (used by Weta on Lord of the Rings) available to virtually anybody interested in high quality digital compositing of visual effects shots.

This course is designed for those that are new to Shake or new to digital compositing and works through the core competencies required for compositing visual effects shots today. Each week you will download training videos along with exercise footage that will walk you through compositing bluescreen and greenscreen shots, CGI elements and digital matte paintings. The workshop then goes on to build basic skills for creating photorealistic composites as well as rotoscoping and matte extraction challenges that use high quality feature film elements provided by Steve.

An added bonus is that shots completed in Steve's workshop can be added to the students showreel because the source elements are from Steve's own personal library of feature film scans and HiDef video and have no copyright constraints.

Steve travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, produces training programs, and has written a highly successful book on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video with a second book due out in December this year.

More information >>