FX School expands international footprint, partners with FXPHD

Providing students access to a truly international studio calibre training program

Mumbai, May 28, 2010: FX School enters into an exclusive partnership with FXPHD to offer the best visual effects and CG training the world has to offer, to the students of Mumbai. Through this partnership, FXPHD will bring its excellent studio calibre training to the students and FX School will add localization to what is otherwise a purely online self-learning course. FX School will provide the infrastructure and facilities that students will need to learn and practice also giving students an opportunity to capture their own footage through use of its professional studio facilities and equipments rather than use only those provided in the course.  Furthermore, students whose primary language is not English will also now have easy access to this training.

Commenting on this partnership, Mr. Abhyudaya Morarka, Director, FX School said, “Our partnership with FXPHD is yet another solid step toward realizing our mission of providing the best CG – VFX edu-training in India and becoming the de facto Gold Standard in the industry.” Present at the occasion to signify this partnership is David Edgar, founder and senior management of FXPHD along with Leonard Coster, a mentor at FXPHD.

FXPHD is a vfx, production, post-production training program led by professionals which offers both application and craft-based courses. The curriculum includes courses in applications such as Nuke, Flame, Maya, Houdini, After Effects, Final Cut, Color, and more. FXPHD’s goal is to provide structured training which builds term upon term in a modular fashion. A perfect match in realizing this goal is FX School, a high-end quality institute that offers specialized education programmes in the fields of animation, visual effects, photography and digital filmmaking. Equipped with world class infrastructure and being the first institute in India to have a production-ready environment including a state-of-the-art chroma studio, fully-equipped practice labs and art rooms, FX School offers an inspirational learning environment which results in students graduating as polished, industry-ready professionals poised to start from at the top.

About FX School

FX School, a high-end quality institute that offers specialized education programmes in the fields of animation, visual effects, photography and digital filmmaking, collectively called digital content creation, launches its first Visual Effects institute in Mumbai at Andheri.

FX School is equipped with world class infrastructure and is the first institute in India to have a production-ready environment including a state-of-the-art chroma studio, fully-equipped practice labs and art rooms. FX School offers an inspirational learning environment complete with a café-lounge and personalized continuous career counseling that helps ensure students stay on track for a successful career. Accomplished and experienced professionals help the student master his skills in his chosen disciplines. A distinguished Board of Excellence - comprising of the senior-most industry acclaimed professionals and experts - keeps the programmes at the cutting edge of the field. As a result students graduate as polished, industry-ready professionals poised to start from at the top. FX School also offers continuing education courses and workshops for professionals in the field wanting to brush up their skills.

About FXPHD

FXPHD is a vfx, production, post-production training program led by professionals. They offer both application and craft-based courses. Their curriculum includes courses in applications such as Nuke, Flame, Maya, Houdini, After Effects, Final Cut, Color, and more. Their goal is to provide structured training which builds term upon term in a modular fashion.

Members of FXPHD -- called postgrads -- have access to the high quality footage from FXPHD shoots as well as other effects material, such as traditional 2D animation and advanced multi-pass 3D render. This allows the users to create their own composites and build shots for their reels under the instruction of FXPHD Professors. Footage ranges from NTSC and PAL all the way up to 4:4:4 1920x1080 imagery.

Over the history of FXPHD, they have grown to become the leading online subscription site for high-end post-production training. Over 90% of FXPHD’s members rate FXPHD a "brilliant" or "great" value for their money -- with the same percentage rating their course professors "great" or "exceptional".

 
About David Edgar

David is a member of SMPTE and well recognized and respected as an industry professional with broad experience in video and software based systems.  Working initially in broadcast television, he moved in post production and equipment supply technical roles before establishing Future Reality in 1993, at the start of the software revolution in post production.  David went on to be Discreet’s Regional Manager for Australia and New Zealand for 2 years.  After returning to Future Reality in 2001 David set about redefining the company and developing a new services side to the business, including consulting, systems integration and technical support.
In 2002 David partner up with Mike Seymour and John Montgomery to start FXPHD, the highly successful online "university" site for industry professions covering post-production, animation, editing and visual effects, in feature film or video.
David is also a director of Sohnet Pty Ltd, the Australian arm of the global network provider for the film industry.

About Leonard Coster

Leonard is an inventor and physicist who has been involved in the film industry for over 15 years.  He specializes in engineering solutions to workflow problems in electronic, optical, mechanical processes and software.

Leonard is the founder of Speed Wedge, who started designing and manufacturing film recorders and scanners and pioneered digital intermediate workflow.  He has gone on to understand and solving stereoscopic workflow and designs and manufacture specialized camera rigs for film production. His software work includes authoring the IOD Calc, the iPhone Calculator App for stereographers and designer & project leader for EVOS media group - on-line motion picture workflow collaboration toolset used by the BBC, Discover Channel and McCann-Erickson

He is also co-founder of E3D creative an LA based stereo film production & post production facility. He also consults to daVinci on stereo post production workflow, and works with FXPHD on stereoscope production workflow.

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Date: 2nd June, 2010

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