VFX Supervisor Damian Allen Has Put Together a Free Previs Course for Moviola

Looking to learn more about previs and its workflow? Now there is a place where you can start. VFX Supervisor and founder of Pixerati Damian Allen has a free course covering previs for Moviola.com.

Previs for the rest of us

Previsualization is a significant branch of visual effects these days. It’s also one of the few VFX tasks with a healthy immunity to outsourcing: directors and DP’s typically need to be in the same room as the artists to communicate changes to shot blocking and staging.

moviola.com has just completed a free master course on creating pre-visualization using Sketchup, Unreal Engine, and Adobe’s Fuse and mixamo.com offerings. The software is mainly free (minus the cost of an Adobe cloud subscription) and the process demonstrated is typically much faster than one employing a traditional 3D DCC package like Maya.

The entire moviola.com site recently removed the paid subscription barrier making the whole content on the site available to everyone. The previs course joins a comprehensive library of filmmaking fundamentals covering topics like framing, coverage, sound, screenwriting, aesthetic principles of editing, color, and more. It’s the kind of information that’s useful whether you’re a live-action filmmaker or plan to live on the animation and effects side of things.

Get started with the fundamentals of previsualization here.