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
VISUAL EFFECTS
Every creature, explosion, and impossible landscape you've seen on screen was built by a VFX artist.
This program teaches you how — from integrating CG elements with live-action footage to building full digital environments from scratch. You'll work with the same tools and pipelines used in professional productions, developing both the technical skills and the artistic eye that studios look for.
CURRICULUM
Basic & Modeling
UV
& Texture
Shading
& Lighting
Camera
& Render pass
Rigging
& Animation
- Interface
- Basic Shading
- Basic V-ray
- Basic Modeling Exerciese
- modeling Exercise
- UV Map
- V-ray Material
- Subdivision
- Textureing
- 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
Getting Started in Nuke
Compositing
& 3D in Nuke
Ediging
& Demo Reel Production
- The Nuke Interface
- Understanding Channels
& Channel Nodes
- Keying with Primatte
- IBK
- Keylight Keyers
- Multi-pass CGI
- Multi-pass CG and Live-action
footage Compositing
- 3D basics in Nuke
- Camera projection and
displacement mapping
- Import camera tracking data
- Rig
- Cable removal
- Digital camera-shooting
& understanding
- Shooting HDRI for Lighting
- 3D camera tracking
- match moving
- Final demo reel production
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
CAREER PATH
SPECIALIZED
CG TRAINING PROGRAM
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.