REGULAR PROGRAMS
CAMPUS / ONLINE
SFFS's regular program takes students from the fundamentals of CG, VFX, 3D animation, games, and commercial production all the way through to a professional-level portfolio — and a job.
Led by experienced instructors, the curriculum balances artistic creativity with technical precision, built around the same production environments and workflows used in the industry. From concept development to final compositing, students move through the full pipeline rather than learning tools in isolation.
Every student is taught at their own level. Progress is individual, and instruction follows.
REGULAR PROGRAMS
REAL CHARACTER
Hyperrealistic digital humans are now a core part of film, games, and commercial production and the artists who can build them are among the most sought-after in the industry.
This program focuses on the craft of creating believable human characters from the ground up: anatomy, sculpting, texturing, and look development. You'll develop the eye and the technical precision it takes to make a digital face feel real.
CURRICULUM
Zbrush Basic l
Zbrush Basic ll
Zbrush Basic III
Creature design
& texture
Mari Basic
& Render
- Basics of Zbrush
- Understanding Dynamesh and Divide
- Concept of sub tool / use of transpose
- How to use a mask / Designate a polygroup using select
- Type of brush / Sculpting technique
- Basic mesh creation method
- Basic anatomy required for head sculpting
- head sculpting
- Create custom alpha brushes / use vector displacement brushes
- Split and merge / Boolean
- Concept of Retopology / Introduction to Geomesher
- How to work with retopology
- Introduction to the concept of UV
- How to work with UV
- Utilization of layer / Morph target and Morph brush / Creating noise with surface function
- How to detail
- How to use Zbrush dynamics
- How to make basic clothes
- How to use ZModeler
- Props production using ZModeler
- Concept and production of ornaments
- Jewelry making using IMM brush
- How to make armor
- Deformation using micromesh
- Creature design and basic anatomy explanation
- Creature of the appearance of the creature character
- Creature character's skeleton and muscle description
- Creature character's leather and skin description
- Creature character retopology
- Describe the texture of the creature character
- Props and accessories required for creature characters
- Creature character finish
- Basics of Mari
- Concept of Mari Layers / Using Masks
- Concept and application of Mari correction layer
/ How to use procedural layer
- Concept and application of Mari channel
/ How to use materials
- Concept of scan data and how to use it
- Apply scan data
- Understanding and creating normal maps and displacement maps
- Render in Maya
Basic & Modeling
UV
& Texture
Shading
& Lighting
Camera
& Render pass
Rigging
& Animation
- Interface
- Basic Shading
- Basic V-ray
- Basic Modeling Exerciese
- UV Map
- V-ray Material
- Subdivision
- Textureing
- modeling Exercise
- Basic Shading
- Basic Lighting
- Textureing
- Physical Light
- IES
- Basic Camera
- Using 3D Camera
- Basic Render pass
- Render pass Setting
- Compositing
- Basic Rigging
- Basic Animation
- Constrain
- Set Driven
- Motin path
- Key animation
- Expression
- Motion Capture
CAREER PATH
Hollywood movies and TV commercials are not made by just using one program.
SF Film School education is not just centered around Maya but around visual effects and realistic compositing.
VISUAL EFFECTS
In filmmaking, visual effects (VFX) is the creation of any on-screen imagery that does not exist in real life. VFX allows filmmakers to create environments, objects, creatures, and even people that would otherwise be impractical or impossible to film in a live-action shot. VFX in film frequently involves the integration of live-action footage with computer-generated imagery (CGI).
ENVIRONMENT DESIGN
The process of creating a virtual or photorealistic set for film or drama production with digital or traditional painting.
As a curriculum that can respond to all industries in line with the changes of the times, many students choose this course with the goal of becoming a true senior artist.
3D COMPOSITE
The 3D compositing process is a process of synthesizing a virtual digital with a live image to create various elements as if they belonged naturally to the same space.
As a curriculum that can respond to all industries in line with the changes of the times, many students choose this course with the goal of becoming a true senior artist.