Graduate Diploma in Visual Effects – 1 Year

The Visual Effects programme is South India’s only one-year college diploma programme of its sort. It will provide you the chance to learn how to create photo-realistic visual effects seen in movies that are impossible to capture with a live-action camera using industry-standard procedures.

Overview

You’ll learn to work with numerous components of the film making process and bring them together into a smooth final result while also expanding your abilities in industry-standard software in the courses of this diploma programme. The Digital Visual Effects programme will put an emphasis on the fundamental abilities that will make you marketable in the VFX field and enable you to articulate the role that visual effects play in the whole process of film making.

Program Learning Outcomes

You’ll learn image processing, editing, lighting, rendering, matte painting, set extension, compositing and post-VFX techniques employers are looking for.
You’ll produce a marketable demo and self-promotional package during the program suitable for the VFX industry.
A field placement in the final semester will provide a valuable opportunity to work in the real world.

Career Opportunities & Job Roles

Visual effects artists are able to move across multiple platforms including film, television, interaction storytelling, gaming and animation. Potential job titles include:

3D Animator
Texture Artist
Technical Artist
Environment Modeller
Character Modeller
Object Modeller
Stop Motion Animator
Visual Effects Artist

Program Structure

SEMESTER - I & II

SUBJECTS
Pre-Production
Story Boarding
Basics of Photography
Basics of Filmmaking
Photoshop
Light Room
After Effects
Clean Plate
Motion Graphics
Camera Tracking
Particle Illusion Software
Bojou Tracking Software
Premiere Pro
Compositing
Sound Editing