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

INTRODUCTION TO MODELING
-Concept analysis
-Maya Interface
-Navigation
-Surface types overview (NURBS, polygons, and subD)
-"Box" modeling
-Bump, displacement, and normal maps
-Understanding Physical Based Rendering (PBR)
-Modeling Toolkit
-Quality Check preparation for UVs
-UV creation
-Retopology
-Materials, textures, and the hypershade editor

INTRODUCTION TO SUBSTANCE PAINTER
-Interface and Bakes
-Layers, Smart Materials, Anchor points, IDs material.
-How to work with UDIMS and instances.
-How to export textures
-How to work with masks
-Particle brushes
-Iray offline renderer

MODELING FOR PRODUCTION
-High / low poly modeling
-Packing UVs to maximize texel density
-Texture Baking
-Topology and good practices
-Refine the model
-How to present your model
-Showing your work to your supervisors and artistic directors
-Final Quality Check ,Cleaning

PyCh

ADVANCED SUBSTANCE AND INTRODUCTION TO UNREAL ENGINE
-Lighting, texturing and materials for video games
-Generation of photorealistic tileable textures with Quixel Mixer.
-Static Mesh Editor, Material Editor and lights in Unreal.
-Post process and Unreal cameras

CREATION OF FINAL PROJECT
-How to gather reference and organize it for project.
-Blocking and initial modeling.
-Modeling and textured final of 1 prop.
-Introduction to Unreal Engine 5
-How to use Nanite and Lumen

FINAL PROJECT AND REEL
-Final modeling of the environment.
-Modeling and textured environment
-Light it up and present it in Marmoset or Unreal.
-Development of camera movements and take out sequences of images and final renders.
-Edit the final reel.

-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