VFX Foundations
The language of effects: timing, silhouette, and reference — reading real fire before faking it.
Animation & CG← All programs
VFX & Compositing
Fire, water, magic, weather.
Effects are the weather of a story — fire, water, dust, magic, everything that moves but nobody animates by hand. You'll learn simulation and stylised FX for animation, then the compositing craft that assembles every element into a final frame.
1 year · full-timeOn campus · HaldwaniNo experience required
What you'll learn
The curriculum.
Particles & Simulation
Smoke, fire, fluids and destruction in Blender and Houdini, from setups to art-directed results.
Stylised FX for Animation
Energy, magic and cartoon physics — effects with shape language that matches a stylised world.
Compositing
Layers, passes and grading in After Effects and Nuke: assembling renders into finished frames.
Lighting & Rendering
Light as storytelling — key, fill, mood and the render settings that get it to screen on budget.
Production Term
Deliver effects and comps for live studio shots, matching an established show's look.
Tools you'll work in
BlenderSideFX HoudiniAdobe After EffectsNuke
After the year
Where this takes you.
You leave with a specialised portfolio built on real briefs — and a year of habits from a floor that ships. These are the roles this program prepares you for. Admissions open for the next intake — seats are limited.
FX Artist
Compositor
Lighting & Rendering Artist
How the year runs
Twelve months, one craft.
Whichever program you choose, the shape of the year is the same — because it is the shape apprenticeship has always had.
01Months 1–3
Foundations
Fundamentals, daily. Whatever your program, the first term builds the craft basics everything else stands on — with no prior experience assumed.
02Months 4–9
Specialisation
Deep in your discipline. Weekly briefs, weekly reviews, rising difficulty — the same feedback loop the studio's own work goes through.
03Months 10–12
The Studio Floor
Live briefs from real productions. You finish with a portfolio of work made to shipping standard — not classroom exercises.