TECHNICAL INFORMATION I
- CODECS
- 8-16-32 Bits
- Containers
- Banding
- Curves
- Digital Cameras vs Analog Movie Cameras
- Digital Film Cameras vs DSLR
- Optical Differences in Photos, Video and Cinema
- Circular Optics vs Anamorphic Optics (bokeh, flare)
- Differences between Linear sensors vs Log vs Raw
- Using Blackmagic
- DaVinci Resolve for Grading

FILM ANALYSIS
- The World of Cinema
- Brief History of Cinema
- Reading the Interpretation of a Script
- Screenplay Exhibition
- Work with Actors
- Storytelling
- Frame by Frame Analysis
- Making Storyboards
- Color and light, sound, uses and forms.
- Actors and Technical Team

TECHNICAL INFORMATION II
- Shooting a Long Take
- Making a Story Board
- Lighting, types and lighting layouts
- Reading of Script and scope of the Project
- Production needs, optics, chromas, movements.
- First economic Budget, what to include or discard

PLANNING
- Shooting Static Shots
- Shooting Moving Shots
- Axes, basic rules of the Directing
- Relationship of the SCRIPT with the Assistant Director
- Technical Script and StoryBoard

PRE-PRODUCTION
- Production design
- Final Budget of a Short Film
- Creation of Concepts
- Creation of the Storyboard in 2D and 3D
- Offline shooting
- Using Adobe After Effects for 2D Animatics
- Preparation of a Management Dossier
- How to do Casting. Techniques and recommendations.
- Lenses and Objectives for the Director, Storytelling and point of view.

DIRECTING ACTORS I
- Directing actors
- Action Scene
- Suspense Scene
- Horror Scene
- Comedy Scene

FX ESSENTIALS II
- Offline shooting - Rotoscopy
- Chroma Key
- Matte Painting
- 3D Animation
- Unreal Engine
- Using Adobe Premiere for 2D Animatics

DIRECTING ACTORS II
- Directing Actors II
- Practice shooting
- FX Supervision for Directors
- Assembly, Mixing and Grading for Directors

PRODUCTION I
- Final shoot

MOCAP
- Visit the MOCAP Study
- Motion Capture
- Visit the Locations
- Short Film Thematic Production Team
- Final shooting

PRODUCTION II & POSTRODUCTION I
- Final shooting
- PostProduction and Assembly
- Final Assembly

PRODUCTION II
- Final shooting

POST-PRODUCTION II & SOUND
- PostProduction and Assembly
- Color grading
- Grading
- FX
- Rotoscopy, Chromas and Integrations
- Project representation
- Render parameters
- Frame resolutions
- Layered rendering
- Sound Post Production

POST-PRODUCTION II & SOUND
- PostProduction, Assembly, Grading and Mixing
- Premiere of the Short Film in a Cinema

UNREAL & SHOTGUN
-Cinematics with Unreal
-Setting up a production pipeline wih Shotgun
-Implementing visual effects with Unreal Engine
-Reel
-Breakdown

-Geometry in Houdini: points, primitives, verticies and detail
-Contexts (SOPs, DOPs, COPs, ROPs, CHOPs, LOPs, TOPs)
-UV Mapping, shading, modeling, lighting
-Attributes management
-Procedural modelling
-VEX vs VOPs
-Transfer, promotion, creation and management for attributes
-SOPs solver
-POPs basics
-POPs dynamics
-Rain system
-Magical effects

-Model prep for destruction
-Material fracture: wood, glass, concrete
-Creation and constraints management
-Creation and proxies management
-RBD dynamics
-Volume concepts (VDB/volume)
-Volumes management
-Intro to Pyro and Sparse
-Fire, smoke and explosions
-Intro to FLIP
-Long a small scale simulations

-Whitewater y meshing
-Shading and render for FLIP
-Intro to Vellum
-Hair simulations
-Cloth simulations
-CFX production techniques (problem solving)
-Intro to crowds
-Agents management, animation clips and layers
-Crowds simulation
-Triggers y ragdolls

HISTORY
-Matte painting and photo bashing applications

Exercise
Find 6 Matte painting works / Photo Bashing that inspire you and that you would like to achieve.

COMPOSITION
-Study of composition standards
-Study of classical works
-Practical application of composition
-Breaking the compositional norms

Exercise
Analyze the compositional scheme of 5 classic works.

COLOUR
-Theory of color
-The chromatic circle
-Basic colors
-Complementary colors
-Tertiary colors
-Color palette study
-The chromatic circle
-The triangle

Exercise
Extract the color scheme of 5 classic works.

PERSPECTIVE
-Perspective two vanishing points
-Perspective three vanishing points
-Narrative use of perspective

Exercise
Generate 6 Composition Sketches

PHOTOGRAPHY
-Reflex photography fundamentals.
-Shutter speed
-Diaphragm aperture.
-ISO sensitivity
-Use of lenses
-Lens aberrations and their application

Exercise photography
-20 textures
-10 animals
-10 insects
-20 plants
-10 Landscape
-20 objects
-20 Macro
-10 Portrait

PHOTOSHOP
-File management
-Essential tools; brush, eraser
-Brushes settings
-Brush creation
-Selection masks
-Cloning buffer
-Use of layers
-Blend modes
-Color settings
-Hue, brightness and saturation
-Filters
-Warp
-Color palette scheme

Exercises PHOTOBASH
-Anthropomorphic Robot
-Non anthropomorphic robot
-Action character
-Vehicles: asphalt and plains
-Vehicles: off road
-Vehicles: motorcycles
-Vehicles: aerodynamic aerial
-Vehicles: space
-Fantastic Natural Park by day.
-Night Fantastic Natural Park.
-Landscape with architectural ruins.
-Landscape with technological elements.
-Futuristic city extra radio.
-Futuristic city inside.
-Medieval city extra radio.
-Medieval city inside.

3D MAX
-Interface
-Use of geometries and primitives.
-Modifiers
-Splines
-Spline modeling
-Polygonal modeling
-Subdivision Modeling
-UVs
-Material Editor
-Lighting
-Render

ZBRUSH
-Basic concepts
-Organic sculpting

Exercise
Include in your Matte Painting elements created in 3D by yourself.

AFTER EFFECTS
-Introduction
-File management
-Use of layers
-Blend modes
-Properties Editor
-Timeline
-Stock Animation
-Masks
-Animated masks
-Filters
-Color settings
-Lighting settings
-Particle systems vs alpha footage
-Rotobrush
-3d layers
-Cameras and lighting
-Camera mapping techniques
-Tracking camera

Exercise
Bring 5 of your original Matte Paintings to life.

FUSION
-Node Methodology
-Loaders
-Basic compositions
-Matte effects-
-Atmospheric effects
-Color settings
-Camera tracking
-3D camera
-3D elements implementation
-Rendering

Exercise
Bring 5 of your original Matte Paintings to life.