SUBJECT PROGRAMS
CAMPUS / ONLINE
SFFS Subject Programs are designed for students who want to go deeper into a specific area of CG, VFX, 3D animation, games, or commercial video production.
Each course provides intensive, focused training in a core discipline — modeling, rendering and lighting, animation, compositing, or FX — led by instructors with hands-on industry experience.
These programs allow students to build on their existing foundation, sharpen their portfolio in their chosen field, and prepare for a specialized career in the global VFX industry.
Students are grouped by level — those at different stages of progress are taught separately.
2D / 3D COMPOSITING SOFTWARE
NUKE(+ Ai)
Nuke is the compositing tool of choice at the world's top VFX studios
— the software that takes every rendered element and turns them into a finished shot.
At SFFS, students learn Nuke as the final stage of the production pipeline,
developing the eye and the technical precision to make CG and live-action footage
feel like they were always in the same world.
CURRICULUM
12 WEEKS
Getting Started in Nuke
- Alpha & Rotopaint 1
- Premult & Rotopaint 2
- Color, Focus, Grain match & Mask
- Cornerpin & Blend mode
- Sequence, Project setting, Rotoscoping
- Animation (2d matchmove), Curve editor, Tracker Export
- Retime, Append clip, Framehold, Denoise
- Grain, Blend mode, Write (render)
Compositing & 3D in Nuke
- Tracking 1, Auto stabilize, User stabilize
- Tracking 2, Remove 1, Rotopaint 3
- Tracking 3, Remove 2, Cornerpin Matchmove
- Channel & Mask, Composite detail
- Screen Keying 1, keylight, primatte, keymix
- Screen Keying 2, IBK gizmo, Despill
- Pass comp 1 ( V-ray )
- Pass comp 2 ( V-ray )
Ediging & Demo Reel Prod.
- Copycat Base (AI machine learning)
- Copycat Remove (AI machine learning)
- Copycat Rotoscoping (AI machine learning)
- AI depth create (Focus match)
- Camera tracking (nuke), Projection work flow 1
- Projection work flow 2
- Syntheyes Camera tracking, maya to nuke work flow 1
- Projection work flow 3