ActionVFX

Artists are having a hard time out there. So, we're releasing this for free!

The New VFX Career Playbook, a free, two-hour masterclass with Allan McKay (Transformers, Avengers: Endgame, Flight), built specifically for mid- to senior-level artists navigating a job market that looks nothing like it did a few years ago.

Inside: how to find studio roles before they're posted, how to structure a reel that survives the first 15-second review, and how to become the artist a studio calls back first.

We've always believed the tools and knowledge in this industry shouldn't be locked behind who you know. That's the whole point of what we do here, give artists what they need to build careers that last.

Watch it here → https://www.actionvfx.com/academy/the-new-vfx-career-playbook

Most artists never get to practice on footage that looks like a real job.

Stock sites want you to pay first. Real production plates aren't available unless you're already on set. So there's no reps. No mistakes made somewhere that doesn't cost a client.

We started giving footage away for exactly that reason, so skill-building doesn't require a budget or a job you don't have yet. No brief attached. No guardrails. Just a plate and the freedom to figure it out.

The Practice Footage Library exists because the artists who improve fastest are the ones who get to fail cheaply, before it matters.
Download For FREE: https://bit.ly/3AAwUlL

Filmmakers find out their shot has a VFX problem after it's too late to fix it.
Something got missed on set. Nobody in the room knew to catch it, because nobody in the room needed to know how comp works.

That costs and money.
A shot that goes back and forth for days because a decision made on set makes it harder in post.

The filmmakers who avoid this aren't VFX artists. They just know the handful of things that matter on set before the crew wraps, and this course teaches exactly that: how what you shoot carries through to what you can build.

Sign-up for VFX for Filmmakers
https://bit.ly/4d6xIjk

Samuel Mourão took a stack of practice footage and turned it into a predator movie trailer!

One creature. Composited into jungle plates that weren't shot for this. Animated to move like something hunting.

A month of work. No brief telling him what to make.
Just raw footage and the challenge to go create something with it.

This is the whole point of the Community VFX Challenge.
We hand out real practice footage, no guardrails, and see what artists build with it.
Samuel used it to make a full-blown creature sequence that looks like it belongs in a trailer.

If you're sharpening your compositing, animation, or creature work, or just want a reason to finish something instead of letting it sit half-done, this is where you do it.

We run it regularly on our Discord. Join us there.
https://bit.ly/3MoqR6H

Studios aren't asking if you know AI tools anymore.

They're writing it into the job spec. We're seeing more Compositor positions listing.
Requirements: Nuke and ComfyUI.

That's not a trend piece anymore.

Artists who treat AI tools as optional are competing for a shrinking pool of jobs.
Artists who integrate them into a working production pipeline are the ones getting hired.

This is exactly what our courses are built on.
Enrol in Advanced AI Workflows for VFX Artists: https://bit.ly/4d6xIjk

VFX for Filmmakers takes you through the whole pipeline in three weeks: how to plan and shoot footage that actually holds up, how to key, roto, track, and clean up your plates, how to build environments and drop in elements that look shot in-camera, and how to use AI tools to do alone what used to take a team.

By the end, the shots you used to send out, you can finish yourself. The skill pays for itself on the first project.

Built for filmmakers who already shoot and edit. Three weeks, start to finish, at your own pace, yours for good.