Last update: 3rd November, 2024

Helping to train a new wave of creatives is something I’ve always wanted to and finally, thanks to my time with CG Boost (an online education platform), I’m finally able to do that. I often find that compositing is seen as a very niche topic in VFX, despite the broad applications it has. Hopefully this course will help change that in some up-and-coming artists.

As a professional compositor for major film studios, digital compositing is something with which I am very familiar, so this particular subject was an obvious choice when I was asked to make a course for CG Boost. In it I cover a wide variety of topics, designed to give those unfamiliar with the techniques involved a great first step in learning how to utilise compositing.

In the production of this course, I made several fairly extensive sci-fi scenes, designed to cover every topic the course has to offer, from colour grading and simple filter effects like vignette and film grain, to more advanced techniques like keying (green-screen) and camera tracking. Images from these scenes can be seen below.

I also had the privilege of working with my friend, Ashley Mears, who was kind enough to be the willing subject in the footage designed for green-screen keying. I am hoping he appears in dozens of portfolios and showreels for years to come.

This is a project I’ve been working on for approximately 3 years now, and I’m pleased to say that it is about to be made public, with an expected release date in December 2024. There is still another chunk of work to complete on it, in the form of a fairly large update, expected some time around mid-2025, but I’m very happy that all the work I’ve done so far is finally seeing the light of day.