Digital Cinema Arts-Education/Workshops

Digital Cinema Arts Workshops

DCA workshops are designed for working production artists, technical directors and programmers. Our workshops are designed for production professionals looking to advance their skill set to a higher level of expertise and who are seeking a cutting edge in computer graphics engineering. Workshops run from 2 to 5 days in length depending on the course.

Details of each course, and locations and schedules for the Spring season will be posted soon.

Houdini

Fluids in Houdini- Simulation & Surfacing
Physical Simulations And Houdini
Rigid Body Dynamics
Cloth
Fluids & Gases
Wires
Surfacing and Shading
Houdini Channel Operators
Advanced Houdini Channel Operators
Modeling and Animation in Houdini
Houdini Digital Assets & Version Control
VEX, VOPs and the VEX builder
Particle systems in Houdini

Nuke

Nuke in production
Python for Nuke Artists
Python for Nuke TDs

Shading

Intro to Shading
Shading
Basics
Textures
Displacement/Bump Mapping
Lighting - Global Illumination, Ambient Occlusion, Final Gathering, Caustics
Advanced design and production methods
Introduction to Mental Ray shading
Introduction to Mental Ray programming
Houdini's Shading Operators, VEX and the VEX builder (VOPs)

Pipeline

Render farm Administration and management
Software Engineering & Design principles for Technical Directors
Pipelines - Design, implementation, maintenance
Asset Managment and versioning sytems

Visualization

Scientific Visualizations – How to viz your data!
Houdini and scientific Visualization
Processing
OpenDX

Programming

Introduction to the Houdini Development Kit
Houdini Development Kit for Technical Directors & Scripters
Advanced Houdini Development Kit
Python for Houdini for Artists
Python for Houdini for Technical Directors
Advanced Python for Houdini

Music in 3D

Houdini with MIDI/3D Audio
Houdini Channel Operators and Music
Houdini/MIDI/Csound audio production