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THE COURSE

The purpose of the course is to introduce you to the world of Visual Effects and give you a broad understanding of the Compositing & its Parts inside Aftereffects

FACULTY

Seamedu has a professional team of some extremely talented and experienced trainers who would help you throughout your VFX journey. With best of knowledge and expertise, these trainers will support you in developing and polishing the creative skills required as per the set standards of animation industry.
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CAREER PROSPECTS

Visual Effects have a large number of entry level positions for those looking to start a career in production and post production level. Those looking to make a career in Visual Effects usually work with the TV, advertisement and Film industry. Every job in the field of VFX is distinctive and to be done with a creative mind.
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FACILITY

Learning the concepts of VFX on softwares is not sufficient. With knowledge comes lively environment which encourages students to perform better and progress further. Considering this, Seamedu has provided some great facilities like large class rooms with AC, abundant lighting arrangement, media school environment, and lot more.
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COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Course content is functionality-based, progressing from basic tools and techniques to advance.
Underlying concepts are addressed so that you learn not only how to do something, but why.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions will help you solve your queries right away. This section will also help you to know and understand more about VFX, course duration, eligibility criteria, job roles in animation industry, etc.

CERTIFICATE IN ROTO & CLEANUP

2D Module (2 months)

Compositing 101
Mask & Keying
Roto, Paint & Retouching
Converting 2D to 3D
Tracking & Stabilizing
Effects & Animation
3D Layers & Camera
Project

CERTIFICATE IN 3D COMPOSITING

3D Module (3 months)

Introduction to Digital Fusion & Nuke
3D Overview
Fundamentals of Modeling & Texturing
Tracking with Matchmover.
Shading for VFX
Rendering For VFX (Passes)
Stereo Rendering & Compositing
3D Effects & Particle System
Project

Project	10-30 Seconds VFX shot.
Demo Reel	Compilation of Work / Assignment with "Before & After"
Other	Photography, video analyses, Films for reference study.

CURRICULUM

Objective-Focus on VFX Production Basics

TERM 1

Design fundamentals-I
Photoshop- I
Compositing- I
Shot Division & Story Boarding
Fundamentals of Camera handling & Studio 3 point Lighting
Maya Fundamentals- I

Other

Analysing Vfx films, Pre-Planning, documentation, Sound Design & Music Workshop

Project

Still image composting, Visual Design, Storyboards

Objective-Focus 3d & Digital Technology

TERM 2

Design fundamentals- l
Photoshop -- ll
Texturing for 3D
Compositing -II
Digital Cinematography
Maya -I
3D Modeling, Texturing for Vfx

Other

Workshop on Goal setting, Workshop on digital Techniques, Live green screen Shoot

Project

Mini Advertisements using 3d & 2d

Objective-Focus Advanced Compositing & Rendering

TERM 3

Maya III Advanced Lighting, Shading & Texturing)
Maya IV (Renderer's & Rendering techniques)
Advance Compositing I( After Effects)
VFX Production Techniques
Z-brush -I
Introduction to Houdini I
Project Planning & Idea Development

Other

Supervising VFX Shoots, Photography & Lighting study, Story Development for final Project

Project

CG elements & live-action composite to create a photo-realistic final sequence, Workshop on Shot Division

Objective-Focus VFX Production Pipeline & Final Project

TERM 4

Story development & Shot Planning
Advance Compositing II
Maya - VII (Dynamic Effects, intro to N Cloth)
Z-brush -II
Houdini -Dynamics Simulations
Project Development
Media Delivery Methods

Other

Presentation & interview skills, internships,

Project

Final Project -Short film /Ad Film

FACULTY

Harold Raichur - Director Seamedu Animation & Arts
Harold Raichur is a Visualizer and Creative, with a knack for Storytelling. His interests vary from Philosophy to History, Football to Animation, Books to Comics, and Teaching to Trekking. He brings a practical & hands on approach to everything he does. A self learnt, student of Animation, and Filmmaking in particular. He loves to write & direct original content like Short Films, Game content, Short Stories, Comics & and anything to do with the visual media.

Rohit Gupta, Founder - CEO (Rolocule Games) - Mentor-Game Design & Game Programming
Prior to Rolocule, Rohit was a part of "THE SIMS 3" engineering team at Electronic Arts (EA) headquarters in Redwood City, California. He has also held positions at Infosys Technologies, where he was also awarded Best Software Engineer award in 2006. He seems to be obsessed with computer games, superman and tea, and intends to spend rest of his life entertaining people. He is not evil but turns to Lex Luthor for good business tips. Rohit holds Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Columbia University, New York and BE in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology (University of Pune). For more details visit: www.rolocule.com.

Akhlaque Shaikh - Technical Head-3d & Visual Effects
Aks(short for Akhlaque) -Bachelor in Computer Engineering wouldn't have come to be in this position if he hadn't accompanied a friend, sadly for his friend who didn't join what Aks did-ANIAMATION! Since then he has progressed from being the first motion builder trainer to studios, to a maya expert and later a technical head. In-between all this he was able to co-found Id Animation & Arts. At the present Aks is busy un ravelling the future course of SeamEdu nextgen training pipeline, namely HOUDINI, Mo-Cap & Game Technology. He is largely self learnt and has a passion for animation and 8 years to back it all. He has technical expertise over major 3D, 2D and Compositing programs & all things technical. He has been involved in short filmmaking and commercials, as Technical Director. He maintains a blog, likes photography & going to the Gym.

Abid Shaikh - Senior Faculty-3d General/Rigging
Abid started his career as a modelling artist, then he moved on to rigging & at the present he is working his hand at animation. In the mean while in a short span of 5 years , of which 4 years he worked with TOON GEEKS SOFTWARE PVT. LTD ,making two direct to video 3d movies (Chandarani ...A Dream to reality, Sonam ...Aur saath Ajube) in the capacity of Technical Lead & Project Manager. Abid is a people's person and easy to get along, thus when he chose to take the plunge form the hustle of a studio to the bustle of a School, he had all the needed expertise of a professional Animation artist & the patience of a trainer. Presently Abid is Sr Faculty , guiding the students with the best practices both technically & artistically to his Students. As Abid comes from the studio background, he is able to call upon many of his animation experts in the industry to take on special sessions at SeamEdu.

Kunal Lanjekar - Senior Faculty (Visiting) --Design Fundamentals, 3d
He is multi-talented & very hard working individual with very strong leanings towards Graphics, Tattoos, Animation Design and Teaching in no particular order. A GD Arts graduate, he has completed his animation studies with a post graduate diploma from CDAC. He is also pursuing a degree course in instructional design with Symbiosis College. He is a freelance animation professional having working with Australian & Indian studios. Currently he also teaches animation at Vishwakarma Creative I college,pune. His ability to multitask & stretch his time not only allows him to seek and successfully complete a his various projects but also fulfil his creativity by making short films & supervise Game projects. At SeamEdu Kunal, teaches design, Advance Character Modelling & Texturing to the various animation streams.

Rohan Dalvi - Senior Faculty (Visiting) -3d Dynamics & Visual Effects
With over 12 years of experience in the animation business he has worked for various Advt Agencies and Studios including, Phoebus Media, Indian Magic Eye, Digital Art, etc. He was the 3d Visual Effects lead on "Dashavataar" the 2d animated film. Earlier in his career Rohan has worked on Advertisements, architectural and industrial visualization projects and continues to do so. Rohan is a software geek, with a voracious appetite to delve into any 3d/2d software and then happily go about sharing his knowledge with whoever will listen. Rohan loves to teach & has been into training/ teaching for 10 years. He has & continues to teach at various animation Institutes & colleges . He founded " Institute for Advanced Animation" , which he currently heads to impart advanced 3d ,Vfx & animation to professional in a short duration. At Seamedu Rohan will teach the advanced level courses for 3d animation mainly, Lighting,Rendering, Visual Effects and Compositing.

Kunal Shrigondekar - Visiting Faculty-- Cinematography, Studio Lighting
In his words Wants to explore the deep ocean of Television Media & become a Professional success in the T.V & Media industry.His goal is to become a good Camera artist & Cinematographer. He is a team player in my team and looks out for challenge and exitement. His has a deep interest in the Camera has resulted in the pursuit of Photography, Videography & filmmaking, as a student and now as a professional. Kunal is credited for his work on Documentaries, short films, Promotional & Advertisements, Music Videos, TV Serials & Reality Shows for Television. At SeamEdu it his expertise with the camera ensures that the Animation & Vfx students have the benefit of understanding and using professional camera systems in both the studio and on the sets with a dedicated professional.

Shantanu Kulkarni - UI Designer (IISc Bangalore)--Mentor-Game Design
Shantanu is an industrial designer from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Having an engineering background he was always keen to do product design but he is more inclined towards product development. He has gained a lot of experience in the organizations like Larsen & Toubro & TATA Motors, working on defence products to automobiles. Recently he is a part of user experience design teams of leading IT organizations. Because of the industrial design background & user experience design exposure, Shantanu brings in user centric approach in every design phase. He gives a guidance from a product development perspective to give an end to end solution. His areas of interest are Learning & entertainment. He has recently published a research paper in "Conference for Advances in Usability Engineering" (CAUE, 2008) on learn-ability testing of e-learning applications. His recent study includes application of cognitive theories in the Game Development/ entertainment industry. Shantanu, brings his expertise in product design, ergonomics, aesthetics along with his User Interface (UI) skills to help the game design students, make good games.

Mr Bharat Sachdev - (Toolbox Studios, Mumbai)
10 years Visual Effects Vfx Compositing artist ,Studied at Centennial College Canada & having worked with Tata Elxsi & DreamWorks Bangalore

THE COURSE

Diploma in Visual effects focuses on developing strong fundamental skills in all aspects of the visual effects creation that are covered under the green-screen film production and post production level. Training on subjects like Fundamental of Rotocopy, Camera Tracking, Match Moving, Image editing, Rendering, Color Correction, Compositing live action & 3d using Maya, FCP, AFTER Effects, Digital Fusion, HOUDINI , ZBrush would be provided using high end apple Mac's & HP Workstations.
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CURRICULUM

VFX course curriculum comprises four terms covering the basic concepts required to start students on their visual effects journey. Presented in an easy to follow, step-by-step and visual format its instructions let the students discover many creative possibilities. The curriculum's objective is to teach VFX fundamentals through the creation and completion of a final project at the end of the curriculum.
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FACULTY

FACILITY

CAREER PROSPECTS

FAQ

COURSE FEES

Fees (per year) : 2,00,000 + Service Tax

Duration (in years) : 1

CURRICULUM

Objective-Focus on VFX Production Basics

TERM 1

Design fundamentals-I
Photoshop- I
Compositing- I
Shot Division & Story Boarding
Fundamentals of Camera handling & Studio 3 point Lighting
Maya Fundamentals- I

Other

Analysing Vfx films, Pre-Planning, documentation, Sound Design & Music Workshop

Project

Still image composting, Visual Design, Storyboards

Objective-Focus 3d & Digital Technology

TERM 2

Design fundamentals- l
Photoshop -- ll
Texturing for 3D
Compositing -II
Digital Cinematography
Maya -I
3D Modeling, Texturing for Vfx

Other

Workshop on Goal setting, Workshop on digital Techniques, Live green screen Shoot

Project

Mini Advertisements using 3d & 2d

Objective-Focus Advanced Compositing & Rendering

TERM 3

Maya III Advanced Lighting, Shading & Texturing)
Maya IV (Renderer's & Rendering techniques)
Advance Compositing I( After Effects)
VFX Production Techniques
Z-brush -I
Introduction to Houdini I
Project Planning & Idea Development

Other

Supervising VFX Shoots, Photography & Lighting study, Story Development for final Project

Project

CG elements & live-action composite to create a photo-realistic final sequence, Workshop on Shot Division

Objective-Focus VFX Production Pipeline & Final Project

TERM 4

Story development & Shot Planning
Advance Compositing II
Maya - VII (Dynamic Effects, intro to N Cloth)
Z-brush -II
Houdini -Dynamics Simulations
Project Development
Media Delivery Methods

Other

Presentation & interview skills, internships,

Project

Final Project -Short film /Ad Film

FACULTY

Mr Bharat Sachdev - (Toolbox Studios, Mumbai)
10 years Visual Effects Vfx Compositing artist ,Studied at Centennial College Canada & having worked with Tata Elxsi & DreamWorks Bangalore

NEWS EVENTS & UPDATES

CG Workshop conducted at AIMMS College, Pune.
Seamedu launches BA in Journalism and Mass communication
Sakaal Career Path July-11
Education Times Aug-11
Radio Jockey Graduation
3rd year batch of RJ's Graduated - Nov 09
Himesh Reshmmiya visit to seamedu - May 10
Seamedu Add
Seamedu Rolocule Tie up - July 10
Animation mela - June 10
Maharashtra IT awards - Aug 10
First Anniversary - Sep 09
Gem & Jwellery book Exhibition - Nov 10
Radio Dreamz-Seamedu - May10
Subodh Bhave visit - Jun10
Seamedu Felicitates SS,HSC, & Fine Art Toppers - Sep 08
Check out the Event Video - Seam Unites 2011 http://www.facebook.com