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.
SPECIALIZED
CG TRAINING PROGRAM
Professional CG production doesn't happen in a single program. It happens across a carefully structured pipeline. At SFFS, that's exactly what we teach.
Our curriculum is built for anyone starting from zero, guiding students from core fundamentals through to production-ready work.
Theory, workflow, and hands-on projects are woven together so that by the end, your output meets the standard studios actually expect.
We're not here to teach you how to use software. We're here to make you someone the industry wants to hire.
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.
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
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
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
REGULAR PROGRAMS
3D ANIMATION
The characters you root for, the worlds you get lost in, the moments that make a film feel alive — that's the work of a 3D animator.
This program takes you from the fundamentals of movement and weight to full character animation, covering the principles that separate technically correct from genuinely believable. You'll build a portfolio that shows not just what you can do but how you make things feel.
CURRICULUM
- 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
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
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
CAREER PATH
REGULAR PROGRAMS
GAMES
Every environment, character, and asset in a game was built by someone. That someone is a game artist.
This program focuses on the full production pipeline for games, from modeling and texturing to engine integration, using the tools and workflows that studios actually hire for. Whether you're drawn to characters, environments, or props, you'll graduate with a portfolio built to industry spec.
CURRICULUM
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
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
REGULAR PROGRAMS
3D MOTION GRAPHIC
Motion graphics are what make brands move, titles come alive, and ideas hit harder than words alone.
This program covers the full 3D motion pipeline, from concept and animation through to final compositing, with a focus on the commercial and broadcast work that's always in demand. You'll build a reel that works across advertising, film titles, and digital media.
CURRICULUM
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
Basic Effects
Motion Graphics
- Synthesis concepts and interfaces
- Understanding keyframe interpolation
- Brush Uses Time remap with Auto-trace
- Text Animation and Compositing mode
- Blending mode
- Understanding Alpha and Lumamat
- Understanding animation and 3D layers using camera layers
- 3d animation using Element3d and camera tracking
- Synthesis concepts and interfaces
- Understanding of Blue Screen Screenshots
- tracking work
- Using the concept of tracking and tracking of the 2D synthesis tool
- Sound Matching Using Expressions
- motion using strokes
- Title creation using gradient wipes
- Final Impact with Universe
- Key light and steady mood
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
REGULAR PROGRAMS
FX
DYNAMICS AND SIMULATION
The best FX work is the kind no one notices — fire that actually burns, water that actually flows, destruction that makes you flinch.
This program trains you in Houdini-based simulation across the full spectrum of effects: fluids, pyro, rigid body destruction, and more. You'll learn not just how to operate the tools, but how to observe and recreate the real-world physics that make digital effects believable.
CURRICULUM
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
Beginning Level Ⅰ
Beginning Level Ⅱ
Intermediate Level Ⅰ
- Introduction to Houdini
- Houdini interface
- Application of environment variables
to modeling and rendering
- Understand the Procedural Workflow
- Procedural Workflow Walkthrough
- objects and relationships
- Understanding the directory structure
- Advanced copy sop, stamp()
- Channel Animation & Camera, Lighting
- Normal, Vector, Velocity
- Foreach, Pops, Hops
- Rayemit, Light, Rendering
- Proxy LOC, Point, Curve Rendring
- Shader development
- Expression and Displacement shaders
- Basic POPS
- Sprite, Dust fog shader development
- Water Surface
- WHITECAPS Particle Rendering
- Reflection Shade
- Houdini Ocean Toolkit
- SOP Emitter
Intermediate Level Ⅱ
Advanced Level Ⅰ
Advanced Level Ⅱ
- VOPS & VEX Programming
- Why VEX?
- ContextSOP, ContextSURF,
ContextDISP, ContextPOP
- ContextCHOP ,ContextFOG, ContectLIGHT
- ContextI3D, ContextSHADOW, VEX Progaming
- Volume Dynamic
- Emitter Setup, Volume Fluid Object Setup
- Volume Fluid Solver, Volume Fluid UPRES
- Destruction
- Fault Modeling
- Advanced Destruction
- Advanced Fault Destruction
- Fault DestructionC Dynamic
- Introduction Asset
- Making Foam Using SOP Solver
- CWGLOBALS.OTL
- CWUVCUT.OTL
- CWWHITECAPS.OTL
- CWWHITECAPSDOPSIM
- Making Tools Using OTL
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
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
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
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
REGULAR PROGRAMS
ENVIRONMENT DESIGN
Every world you've seen on screen, whether a war-torn city, an alien landscape, or a period-accurate street, was designed and built by an environment artist.
This program covers the full process of creating digital sets and environments for film and production: concept, modeling, texturing, and lighting. You'll develop the eye for scale, detail, and atmosphere that separates a convincing world from a forgettable backdrop.
CURRICULUM
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
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
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
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
REGULAR PROGRAMS
3D COMPOSITE
Compositing is the invisible craft — the art of making CG and live-action footage feel like they were always in the same world.
This program covers the full compositing pipeline in Nuke, from keying and rotoscoping to multi-pass CG integration and camera tracking. You'll learn to see what's off and fix it. It's the skill that keeps a shot from falling apart in the final cut.
CURRICULUM
Tool Basics
UV
& Texture
Texture Creation
Export & Pipeline Integration
- Understanding the UI and project settings
- Understanding the viewport, layers, and material panel
- Concept of the PBR workflow
- UV layout and mapping optimization
- Basic normal and ambient occlusion baking
(Baking affects the quality of the final texturing result)
- Smart materials and masks
- Layer-based painting
- Adding details
(scratches, roughness, metallic adjustments)
- Exporting texture maps
- Applying textures in Maya, renderers, or game engines
(Project-based practice included)
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
- 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
- Interface
- Basic Shading
- Basic V-ray
- Basic Modeling Exerciese
- modeling Exercise
Basic & Modeling
UV
& Texture
Shading
& Lighting
Camera
& Render pass
Rigging
& Animation