AI for VFX.

Six to ten people. Small enough that I can look at every character every week, large enough that the room troubleshoots itself. If fewer than six sign up the cohort is postponed rather than run thin.

Anyone whose work touches a CG pipeline, directly or not, and who keeps hitting the same wall. Animators who can move anything but cannot build their own assets, so they are always waiting on someone else. Concept artists who want to take their own concept all the way to a finished model and a moving shot, without learning to model from scratch. Character artists curious about where this pipeline actually breaks and where it holds. Generalists, solo creators and supervisors who want to know what one person can realistically ship now. The pipeline is the same for all of them; what changes is which part of it is the new bit for you.

Some CG background helps. Roughly the fundamentals: you have opened a 3D package before, and words like mesh, texture and light are not new to you. You do not need to be good at any of it yet. Every stage is taught from scratch on the day, and the pipeline itself carries a lot of the weight. If you are starting from absolute zero, come to the call and we will work out whether to start here or with the general program.

No. Reallusion provides the licences for their side of the pipeline for the run of the course, so that part is covered. The rest is either free, like ComfyUI, or has a trial that comfortably covers eight weeks. We confirm exactly what you need on the free call, before you commit to anything.

A machine with a reasonably modern GPU. The local AI stages are the demanding part, and we cover cloud alternatives for the heaviest steps, so an older card slows you down rather than stopping you. Bring your specs to the call and I will tell you honestly where you will struggle.

No, and that is the point. Every AI stage sits on top of real geometry, real textures and a real performance that you built. The prompt is the last ten percent, and the course spends most of its time on the ninety that makes the ten work.

That is the deliverable. A couple of shots with your own character, taken all the way through the pipeline. Some people finish inside the eight weeks, most finish during the follow-up month, which is exactly what the follow-up month is for.

The weekly stages are deliberately sized to be doable, and the cohort plus the Discord pull people back in. The one month of follow-up after the program exists for the same reason. Falling a little behind is normal, staying behind is what we prevent.

Three hours a week, live, for eight weeks, plus two bonus one-hour sessions near the end. Exact days and times are set per cohort so the room actually shares a timezone. Current dates are confirmed on the free call.

The general program covers the whole CG and VFX pipeline over a longer run, building the craft from the ground up. This one is eight focused weeks on a single hybrid workflow, with a finished short as the deliverable. Different shape, different outcome, and plenty of people do both.

The sessions are live and that is where the value is, but you will not lose a week to a conflict. We agree the recording policy with the room at the start of each cohort.

It is going to take the job of anyone who only knows how to click one button. Everything here is built on the opposite bet: an artist who understands the craft underneath moves several times faster with these tools. That is the argument, and this course is me showing my working.

Reallusion gives every student on the cohort a three-month licence for Character Creator 5, iClone, Headshot 3 and Face Tools, plus AI Studio access and 5,000 AI credits. The clock starts when the cohort starts, so it covers the eight weeks and the month after, which is the month you use to finish and publish. After that the licences end. Anything you made stays yours, and your exported shots, renders and project files are not affected. If you want to keep working in the suite afterwards, that is a normal Reallusion purchase and nothing to do with me.

Enough to run the AI stages of your own short rather than a demo. Credits go on the AI Studio passes, the render and the video-to-video work, and how far they stretch depends on length and resolution. We plan the shots around that budget in week one, and a good part of the course is knowing where the AI is worth spending and where it is not, which is the thing that actually saves credits.

Yes, and I would rather say so now than have you find out in week three. Reallusion covers their side of the pipeline, which is the character build, the performance and AI Studio. The rest of the stack is yours to provide: a DCC, a texturing package, and the smaller tools we use along the way. Several are free, ComfyUI among them, and the DCC is the swappable part, so Maya, Blender, 3ds Max or Houdini all sit in the same slot. Book the free call and we will go through what you already have before you pay anything.

Two ways. Put down 50 dollars to secure your spot and pay the remaining 700 a week before the cohort starts, which is 750 in total, and I invoice you directly. Or pay the whole thing up front for 700, which saves you the 50. Same seat either way, and all prices are in US dollars The 50 is what holds the seat, so it is not refundable if you simply do not complete the payment.

Two different situations, and they have different answers. If I cancel the cohort, because fewer than six people confirm, you choose: a full refund, or your seat moves to the next cohort. Nothing is kept and nothing is decided for you. If you reserve with the $50 and then do not pay the balance, the $50 is not refunded. That is what it is for: while you hold the seat nobody else can have it, and a cohort is six to ten people, so an unpaid seat costs someone else their place. Miss the deadline and the seat goes back to the pool, first come first served, and the next person to pay takes it. Talk to me before the deadline and I will always try to move you to the next cohort instead, but the deposit is not returned as cash.