Apprenticeship training course
Junior visual effects - VFX artist or assistant technical director - ATD (level 4)
Create high quality, performant visuals within budgets.
- Qualification level
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4
Equivalent to higher national certificate (HNC). - Typical duration
- 18 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Creative and design
- Maximum funding
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£10,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Assistant technical director
- Cg artist
- Cg generalist
- Junior 2d artist
- Junior 3d artist
- Junior compositor
- Junior pipeline technical director
- Layout artist
- Lighting artist
- Matchmove artist
- Previz artist
- Roto/prep artist
- Technical runner
- Texture artist
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Identify the information required, and gather the appropriate research or reference materials to carry out your work to expected creative, narrative and technical standards on each production
- Select the appropriate software and technique to meet the required standards and tasks, taking into account the needs of other departments in the production pipeline
- Use appropriate techniques to reduce degradation of the source material
- Identify render errors and fix/escalate them as appropriate
- Work in line with agreed workflows, adapting to operational and creative changes as they occur
- Operate within and adhere to agreed organisational policies, standards and procedures such as health & safety, confidentiality, security, asset storage and legal and regulatory requirements
- Manage own workload and operate both individually and as part of a wider VFX team, keeping colleagues, clients and/or other departments updated on progress and report any issues arising
- Use reliable information to keep-up-to date with the new tools, software, data and other related technology, and how they affect your work
- Interpret and correct lens distortion, parallax and overscan
- Multitask on simultaneous projects, often for different clients, deciding how to prioritise the work to ensure that all tasks are completed on schedule
- Respond positively to feedback on work, making refinements as needed
- Apply the naming conventions, file formats and version control for the work
- Deliver content in the correct format as required by the employer and clients
- Use maths to describe problems, recreate physical systems or manipulate computer generated geometry
- Move, store and organise assets created, ensuring data integrity, in order to enable their use throughout the rest of the pipeline
- Analyse and determine the most appropriate approach to carry out the work
- Trouble shoot VFX problems, taking responsibility for the course of action followed, including identifying opportunities to deliver viable solutions and sharing these outcomes.
Full information on Junior visual effects - VFX artist or assistant technical director - ATD (level 4) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.