Apprenticeship training course
Assistant technical director (visual effects) (level 4)
Supporting visual effects (VFX) projects by providing technical assistance to creative departments, troubleshooting workflow issues, and managing data and resources.
- 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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£9,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- FX artists
- Pipeline technical directors
- riggers
- software developers
- supervisors
- technical directors
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Select and use appropriate software tools and techniques
- Use appropriate techniques to reduce degradation of the source material (for example colour correction concatenation and single step filtering on transformations)
- Use appropriate VFX terminology
- Show technical competence in at least one industry standard VFX software
- Use FTP clients (tools to transfer computer files) and external hard drives
- Create Quicktimes
- Package assets for client delivery
- Use disk management and general processes for the movement of data around the internal system
- Convert, resize and rename various file types
- Monitor, track and report data usage
- Identify data for archival and removal
- Undertake final archiving and subsequent data restoration from archives
- Monitor, manipulate and report on render queues
- Monitor, track and report render resource usage
- Identify render errors and fix/escalate them as appropriate
- Identify, collect and migrate data to/from a range of systems
- Manipulate and link different data sets as required
- Interpret and apply the organisation’s data and information security standards, policies and procedures to data management activities
- Perform database queries across multiple tables to extract data for analysis
- Demonstrate how to build efficient tools and identify how to improve efficiency in existing tools
- Build tools with flexibility in mind, to be able to quickly respond to changes to the brief
- Accurately bid/estimate how long tasks will take
- Complete tasks within the time allocated
- Use maths to manipulate computer generated geometry
- Use maths to recreate physical systems
- Use maths to describe problems and solutions
- Accurately gather requirements from intended users
- Design elegant solutions that satisfy the brief with extensibility in mind
- Present proposed solution and respond to feedback
- Investigate existing solutions or frameworks
- Plan and document development roadmap
- Write good quality code (logic) with sound syntax in at least one language
- Troubleshoot individual artist/TD input, output or archival problems
- Support or troubleshoot pipeline and workflow tools
Full information on Assistant technical director (visual effects) (level 4) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.