Work on Breathtaking Productions

Python is an integral part, an impactful skillset and a huge asset in any Visual Effects, Animation and Games production. Suddenly you are able to create helpful and complex tools on big budget movies and games that make your and your team's workflow faster and easier.

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You will hear "Thank you! 💚" a lot. 

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The biggest challenge is to advance from where you are now to where you want to be. How do you get to the highest production level worthy of the best studios? How do you work on the most desirable projects in the world? Without guidance it is a hard path with a lot of twists and turns. It is easy to get lost and lose motivation in the coding jungle. What do you need to know to become a (better) Technical Artist or Technical Director?

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Let me guide you to a successful career in the industry!​

 Your Roadmap 

 MODULE 01 

Advanced Tools

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Before starting our game-changing journey, you need to prepare your environment and learn how to use it on an advanced level. We will cover familiar, unfamiliar and parts that are surprisingly essential for our progress.

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• Learn the most important advanced tools and how to use them efficiently in your work​

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• Explore the exact workflows professionals use to get the most out of their tools

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• Examine the most common and helpful plugins, shortcuts, tips and tricks

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• Integrate git into your workflow to work on a higher production level

 Module 2 

Coding Style

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Like a spoken language with proper pronunciations, coding style creates a better understanding of what someone else is saying. It adds a layer of clearness, collaboration, care and it can also be fun to pull off while developing a well structured codebase. Coding style is essential in production and team work.

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• Understand the professional module structure​ and how tools are build

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• Unravel the chaos of your scripts and make them collaborative and team ready

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• Integrate documentations and comments into your code workflow

 Module 3 

Advanced Python

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The moment your scripts start to fulfill more key tasks, are shared regularly and even worked on by multiple developers; collaboration and optimization become more and more vital. Suddenly it is a necessity to write systematic code and to structure away from the one module solution or the top to bottom approaches. To realize this you have to create interconnected, more robust but dependent modules that live as part of a system and use what is there instead of reinventing the wheel each time.

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• Understand the importance of classes and how to use them in your scripts

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• Learn to control your tools with configuration files and to save your data in data files

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• Optimize and cultivate an advanced Python workflow using professional practices

 Module 4 

UI & PySide 2

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Graphic User Interfaces (short GUI) create the bridge between the intentions of the developer and the goals of artist. It is a way to add options to the application so it can be used in different ways; according to the users needs. Creating an intuitive and easy to handle UI is an artform in itself and should be part of your time investment when developing an application which interacts with a user.

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• Understand how to build software independent and beautiful User Interfaces using PySide 2

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• Design UIs easily with the QtDesigner and integrate them into your Python code

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• Build your app from scratch with a professional UI

 Python 

 Advanced 

  is perfect for me if

Advanced code made my career!

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Suddenly I found myself looking at the screen and working on Avatar 2 at Weta Digital and was wondering how I got here in just 2 years. 2 years prior I was the only Technical Director in a small regional company, writing helpful pipeline scripts and trying to catch up with the production demands.

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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 an opportunity arose and a Technical Director asked me: “Do you know how to script in 3ds Max?” and I was like: “Kind of.” That was apparently enough to convince him and he took me under his wing and taught me my first share of production scripting in animation.

A year later I enrolled at the Filmakademie BW to study Technical Directing and became the pipeline TD for my whole year - no one seemed to wanted this job. It was a blast and I enjoyed being able to plan the technical workflows and make things work smoothly for the all teams. During that time I developed my own first pipeline (Plex) for the short VFX film Breaking Point and was awarded with the VES Award 2017.

My advanced Python skills opened the doors for me to work as a Technical Director for Weta Digital, Framestore and Mackevision coding for Avatar 2 and the Monsters at Work (Disney-Pixar) series while teaching Python at ArtFx and CGMA. It became clear to me that my success came from my advanced coding skills and that it opened rare opportunities for which others had to work their whole live to arrive. That is also why I created this masterclass to share what I've learned and to give the same opportunities to others as was given to me.

Pick a plan and let's start with your change today!