ACES! Four simple letters, but a complete mystery to many VFX artists. Yet mastering ACES is the secret to achieving those rich, cinematic renders that look straight out of a Hollywood movie. It’s the missing link you’ve been searching for. In this mini-course, Urban will guide you through his full workflow, using ACES color spaces to seamlessly integrate LOG footage with CG renders. You’ll learn how to properly convert LOG to the correct color space, work with it inside Nuke, and export everything for a final grade in DaVinci Resolve.

Wreak Havoc Like the Pros. One Sim at a Time. Recreate the iconic Driller scene from Transformers: Dark of the Moon in this hands-on VFX workshop. Designed for artists ready to level up, you'll use Houdini, Redshift, and After Effects to build, animate, and destroy with pro techniques—kitbashing, procedural modeling, and more. Walk away with a killer shot, fresh skills, and the confidence to create your own epic VFX.

In this detailed breakdown, we'll explore the creation of an underwater explosion effect. We'll examine each element of the final render and discuss the mindset and techniques needed for crafting powerful explosion effects.

In this course, we'll create an epic shot using a variety of techniques and simulations, from set dressing to final compositing, giving you a full creative pipeline for your next projects.

In this massive week, we'll explore how I would create a shot for a cinematic or film. We'll tackle not only explosions (and there are a lot of them!) but also all the secondary car effects like grains and particles.

A deep dive into the re-creation of a shot from Mad Max: Fury Road, covering all the details and aspects of it.

This intensive workshop simulates a real game production environment. You'll work on a pre-existing project with gameplay logic, characters, props, and environments already in place. Your task? Create epic VFX for a hero moment.

Learn how to make environment creation and shots in Houdini within a week using its built-in tools.

This course will teach you the Unreal Engine filmmaking skills I learned over the 2 year period of creating my short film: Firmware. Anyone who follows this course will have the ability to tell their own stories all inside Unreal Engine!

This tutorial will cover creating a custom flip-guided simulation for a Hydroman character inspired by Spiderman, focusing on the flip simulation part.