本视频教程是由fxphd机构出品的影视视觉特效艺术视频教程第一季，FXPHD VFX201 VFX Foundations I，大小：1.35 GB，MP4高清视频格式，附工程源文件，教程使用软件：Nuke，shake，作者：tahl niran，官方发布日期：2012年7月，语言：英语。
NUKE是一个获得学院奖(Academy Award)的数码合成软件。已经经过10年的历练，为艺术家们提供了创造具有高质素的相片效果的图像的方法。NUKE无需专门的硬件平台，但却能为艺术家提供组合和操作扫描的照片，视频板以及计算机生成的图像的灵活、有效、节约和全功能的工具。在数码领域，NUKE已被用于近百部影片和数以百计的商业和音乐电视，NUKE具有先进的将最终视觉效果与电影电视的其余部分无缝结合的能力，无论所需应用的视觉效果是什么风格或者有多复杂。
FXPHD机构是老牌在线教学网站，网站的创建者就是Fxguide的团队，PXPHD制作了大量视觉特效、后期制作、摄影摄像的精品教程。每年支付4000元左右，就可以享受其中5门课程的教学，还可以提供VPN链接内网，每套课程都是10周左右的时间，每节课30分钟左右，包含训练文件和素材。FXPHD主打专业教学，所有的教程作者都是该领域的权威，必须拥有大量的项目经验。
FXPHD VFX201 VFX Foundations I
In response to a huge government and private initiative, a large cross section of people from many of the top of the VFX facilities in the UK got together in 2011 to define what was the most crucial things for educators and students in VFX to know. What did industry really want their staff to know ? What do people in VFX really need to know to do their jobs well. They created a bible for anyone studying VFX in any capacity and it was called the Core Skills of VFX. You can read their guidelines here :
In the wake of this document, many things about training artists for vfx changed. For returning prof Tahl Niran, it was a major turning point in how he approached training. Visual effects training is often designed to get people ‘up and running’ with software, make pretty images or just get people feeling comfortable with a complicated application. But underneath every system which creates, manipulates or even displays images is a very simple set of core ideas. Identifying and understanding these is the key to a truly deep understanding of visual effects compositing.
Enter VFX Foundations I, the first of a two-part course here at fxphd. It is a course designed for EVERYONE, from an absolute beginner to a career visual effects professional. No matter what you know or think you know about working with images using a computer this course will give you a better grasp of what those buttons sliders and nodes are truly doing. If you’re in visual effects, regardless of your level, this course should be a requirement.
Tahl Niran, is a compositor and trainer who has been working in visual effects since 1999. In that time he has worked in games, broadcast design, tv commercials and feature films and trained artists in Australia, London, New York, Mumbai and Shanghai. Tahl was one of the foundation professors at FXPHD and also one of the creators of the original Foundry Nuke Masterclasses. He returns to FXPHD after three years in London working with the team at Double Negative Visual Effects.