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FilmSkool — a free film school

VFX — VFX

Compositing, keying, CG and the invisible work you never clock.

92 lessons · 45 channels · 18h 49m · Post

Start here

Blender Donut Tutorial Part 1 (2026) — Blender Guru · 55m · Beginner
The Basics of Lighting and Rendering in Blender (Donut Finale) — Blender Guru · 40m · Beginner
Blender Basic Modelling Tutorial (Donut Part 2) — Blender Guru · 48m · Beginner
Animating Huge Crowds in Blender - Lazy Tutorials — IanHubert · 14m · Intermediate
CG Realism with Warbles in Blender - Lazy Tutorials — IanHubert · 15m · Advanced
VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 13 — Corridor Crew · 21m · Intermediate
Animate Moths in Blender - Lazy Tutorials — IanHubert · 11m · Intermediate
ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX | Vanity Fair — Vanity Fair · 14m · Intermediate
VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 232 — Corridor Crew · 23m · Intermediate
Add CGI Characters to Live Footage | Blender VFX Tutorial — CG Geek · 22m · Intermediate
Lazy Tutorial - Easy IK Rigging in Blender — IanHubert · 13m · Intermediate
How to use Eevee - Full Blender Course — Blender Guru · 77m · Intermediate
Nuke VFX Tutorial: How To Composite Muzzle Flashes, Gun Smoke, & More Gun FX Stock Footage — ActionVFX · 18m · Intermediate
Playing With 'Playing With Time' | Quick D — Captain Disillusion · 12m · Intermediate
CD / The Horrors of the Alpha Channel — Captain Disillusion · 13m · Intermediate

Topics

Compositing — 34 lessons
Blender — 25 lessons
3D & CGI — 20 lessons
Practical Effects — 18 lessons
Simulation — 17 lessons
Rendering — 11 lessons
Ray Tracing — 9 lessons
Camera Tracking — 9 lessons
Physics — 8 lessons
Particles — 7 lessons
Pipeline — 6 lessons
Maths for Animation — 5 lessons
Software Skills — 2 lessons
Modelling — 2 lessons
Set Design — 2 lessons
Texturing — 1 lessons
Previs — 1 lessons
Storyboarding — 1 lessons

Oscar winners for visual effects

The critics’ canon

Books on visual effects

The workstation

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB — The other one, usually cheaper
SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE 8TB — Desktop archive drive built for footage
Corsair 128GB DDR5 kit — For Unreal, caches and twelve open applications
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — Quick Sync, which some codecs still love
Apple Mac mini M4 — The cheapest Mac that cuts 4K without complaint
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X — 16 cores — the sweet spot for a cutting room

Other departments

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