WHY Coaching WITH Alexander?
I will give you a straightforward, skip the nonsense, clear advice on how to grow in your creative field through technical thinking, scripting, personal development, portfolio and branding.
My experience is build through an academic background (media computer science, BSc and Technical Director, Diploma) combined with 6+ years of working with the industry leaders and countless hours of research, practice and trial&error. This is me sharing my straight up business experience to help you with your challenges as a creative entrepreneur.
Additional to my working experiences, open source pipeline, YouTube tutorials, articles and blog posts, I am also enrolled in regular speeches at events (FMX, Effects America, Siggraph Munich), Masterclasses, company and private coaching for years now. So you can feel assured that I bring the right amount of background with me to help you succeeded in your future path. Sharing knowledge and giving value are two of my core fundamentals which also means I am evolving every day to advance in the art of coaching and success.
If you’re looking to jump head past the trials and tribulations of running a creative practice, want to add to your working and personal development or feel the call of changing direction, then coaching with me is what you need.
WHY Coaching WITH Alexander?
I will give you a straightforward, skip the nonsense, clear advice on how to grow in your creative field through technical thinking, scripting, personal development, portfolio and branding.
My experience is build through an academic background (media computer science, BSc and Technical Director, Diploma) combined with 6+ years of working with the industry leaders and countless hours of research, practice and trial&error. This is me sharing my straight up business experience to help you with your challenges as a creative entrepreneur.
Additional to my working experiences, open source pipeline, YouTube tutorials, articles and blog posts, I am also enrolled in regular speeches at events (FMX, Effects America, Siggraph Munich), Masterclasses, company and private coaching for years now. So you can feel assured that I bring the right amount of background with me to help you succeeded in your future path. Sharing knowledge and giving value are two of my core fundamentals which also means I am evolving every day to advance in the art of coaching and success.
If you’re looking to jump head past the trials and tribulations of running a creative practice, want to add to your working and personal development or feel the call of changing direction, then coaching with me is what you need.
Interview & Negotiation
A rare opportunity to step up your interview and contract negotiation style and to become more successful in the final stage of the hiring process. Get a job in the Visual Effects, Animation and Games. Learn how to change your mindset, update the way you present yourself, and create a clear and successful plan to get the right contract.
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Become confidant in interviews
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Practice interviews with feedback
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Learn contract negotiation
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3 hours of personal coaching
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Establish your personal goal
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20+ pages book
Interview & Negotiation
A rare opportunity to step up your interview and contract negotiation style and to become more successful in the final stage of the hiring process. Get a job in the Visual Effects, Animation and Games. Learn how to change your mindset, update the way you present yourself, and create a clear and successful plan to get the right contract.
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Become confidant in interviews
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Practice interviews with feedback
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Learn contract negotiation
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3 hours of personal coaching
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Establish your personal goal
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20+ pages book
Coding with Style
Python Advanced
Feedback
Python
Advanced
VFX | Animation | Games
This eight weeks masterclass teaches you how to use Python professionally in Visual Effects, Animation and Games. Advance to the next level of scripting and become a technical artist or director building valuable tools and applications that help you and your team into the future.
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9 hours video training
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4 hours personal coaching
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weekly assignments
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individual code reviews
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Python Advanced book
Term Start: July 2021
Boost your confidence
Using scripting for your work in VFX, Animation and games can become an impactful part of your skill sets and a huge asset in any production. Suddenly you are able to create helpful tools that make your and your team's workflow faster and easier.
Thank you!
Still it can become quite a challenge to advance from here. Without guidance it is hard to measure your own progress and where you should go next. What do you need to know to become a better technical artist or technical director?
It is easy to get lost and unmotivated in the coding jungle.
No worries about the scripting tiger - he's just moaning!
Advanced Style/Python/Tools
Improve your style using industry standards (e.g. PEP8) to collaborate across different jobs and companies.
Advance your Python coding to the next level using
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classes
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decorator
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try-except
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Update your tool knowledge with
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new script editors (+ plugins)
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shell
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git
UI & PYSide2
A basic understanding of application design improves the look and feel of your application, its usability and creates the most impact to the artists work.
The UI API PySide2 is a fantastic addition to Python since it is integrated in most DCC packages (Maya, Houdini, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Nuke, Fusion, ...) and it equips you with an API and tools to create more advanced user interfaces and experiences.
Assignments
& Reviews
The newly learned topics are followed by assignments which get you hours of practice time while a personal code reviews will help you to advance in the future.
We also develop an advanced prototype together which you can use for your work and will show your progress throughout the project.
Python Advanced Book
200+ digital pages cover the most important topics in professional scripting you have to know to work on an advanced level:
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Coding Style
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Advanced Python
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Advanced Tools
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UI & PySide 2
The book will summarize the course while adding a variety of additional topics and references for hours of new material.
Free Content
Watch my talk from my Python Advanced masterclass at the Effects America 19 and get a taste for the new topics.
You can also find more resources on my YouTube channel.
Free Video
Great code boosted my career!
I didn't always work in mid to big sized studios. Originally I studied media computer science and used to work in the IT department of a small animation studio in Hamburg. Until one day one of the Technical Directors came over and asked me: “Do you know how to script in 3ds Max?” and I am like: “Yeah and no.” Nevertheless he took me under his wing and I learned my first share of production scripting in animation.
Later I studied Technical Directing at the Filmakademie BW and became the pipeline TD for my whole year - no one seemed to want this job. I enjoyed being able to plan the technical workflows and make things work smoothly. During that time I developed my own first pipeline for the short VFX film Breaking Point that helped the team and me win the VES Award 2017. It became my open source pipeline Plex.
This openend the doors for me to work as a Technical Director for Weta Digital, Framestore, Studio Soi, Arx Anima and Dwarf Animation Studio while teaching Python at ArtFx and CGMA. I learned the basics in university but it was the real production with all its feedback, unpredictability, changes and failures that really made me understand how to write valuable code.
Lets start where I already arrived!
Alexander Richter
I am a Technical Director and Coach with 8+ years of experiences in the VFX and animation industry. I worked for Weta Digital, Framestore, Mackevision, ArtFx and many more.
Python
Advanced
Finally feel confident
your application will work.
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Learn professional coding
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Design advanced UIs
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9 hours video training
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4 hours personal coaching
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weekly assignments
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individual code reviews
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Python Advanced book
Term Start: July 2021
