VFX Wizard srl hereby certifies that

Nome Cognome is a VFX Wizard Trained Professional™ in “Digital Cinematography”

Nome Cognome has successfully completed an instructor-led training at VFX Wizard's Academy of Digital Cinematography, identified for this certificate as: Digital Cinematography (2015). Upon successful completion of this training within the expected timeframe, VFX Wizard srl authorizes the use of the “VFX Wizard Trained Professional™” definition.

This document officially certifies that the attendee has completed the training providing all the assignments required, and has been assigned the following verification ID: 68566976afa3187dd5b0e47ec6f68627.

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Expertise Acquired in “Digital Cinematography”

• Motion Graphics Motion Graphics theory and practice, principles of design, 2D and 3D titling and kinetic typography, fluid animation, audio sync, expressions and math, particle systems;
• Digital Cinematography
  Digital Cinematography theory and practice, advanced chroma keying, noise reduction, virtual set creation, realistic camera simulation;
• Visual Effects Advanced rotoscoping and compositing, human rotoscoping, tracker-assisted rotoscoping, realistic compositing with multiple masks and depth simulation, Face Replacement, camera matching 3D for set extension;
• Color Correction Digital color theory, color correction, color matching, color matching in linear and gamma color spaces, high dynamic range images, light wrapping, secondary color correction and grading, math-driven color matching;
• Motion Tracking 2D and 3D Motion Tracking techniques, classic feature-based motion tracking, planar motion tracking, 3D motion tracking 3D with optical flow, static 3D camera matching, rigging and assembling trackers with math;
• Deformations and Optical Flow Optical flow tracking, time remapping, deformations, warping and morphing, optical flow pixel motion blur, high dynamic range time remapping;
• 3D Modeling Polygonal3D modeling theory and practice, subdivision surfaces modeling, spline patch modeling;
• 3D Texturing Texture mapping theory and practice, UV Mapping, procedural texturing, nodal texturing;
• 3D Animation Keyframe animation theory and practice, inverse kinematics, rigging, deformations, particle simulations, rigid body dynamics and soft body dynamics;
• 3D Rendering High dynamic range linear rendering theory and practice, volumetric rendering, direct and indirect illumination, physically based materials, advanced math and physics for 3D rendering;
• Digital video Storyboarding, theory and practice of visual storytelling, mechanics and physics of digital cameras, lighting, foleying and music, editing theory and practice;

Softwares Used

Lightwave 3D, After Effects, Mocha, Sketchup, Photoshop, Premiere, Poser Pro, Maya, zBrush

Assignments and Grades

Advanced rigging, complex animation, particle system: Grade A
3D virtual set modeling and rendering, with chroma key actor interacting with moving elements: Grade C
Modeling and rendering animated commercial: Grade B

This certification has been issued on Apr 30th, 2015 by VFX Wizard srl, Rome, VAT Number IT06977431003