For filmmakers · For VFX artists · For small studios
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Blender
Nuke
ComfyUI
Times are changing. The tools to make a film now fit on one desk. Very few people know how to use all of them. What stays rare is the eye and the idea: deciding what a shot needs, directing how it gets made, and leading the small team that helps you finish it. That takes a master of multiple mediums.
A specialist in integration.
A generalist in generation.
We call them Full Stack Filmmakers.
Every broken handoff has a part of the course built to close it. Here's the route.
Tools are downstream of judgment. So we start with how to plan and direct a shot, then how to film it, then both bridges, then the kit.
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Real productions with real problems. You get the actual footage, terrain and assets from the hero project to work with.
We open up our own productions and reveal the hidden planning behind every shot.
Never shared in any tutorial
Most people are stuck at level 0 believing they need level 5. The gap is judgment.
Filming on greenscreenWhatever you miss on set is gone for good.
Getting a greenscreen actor into a 3D world. And making CG belong inside real footage. Most artists learn pieces of each and never cross either one end to end. Here's how we do both on real plates, from the first track to the final comp.
One real plate, taken all the way: film, track, align and scale, build, light, render, comp. You work on the actual Rider plates with the same tools we used.
From on-set plate to 3D integration
The reverse crossing. HDRIs, grey balls and a Macbeth chart turned into a CG object that sits in the plate, matched to the light that was really there.
From capture to final integration
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Solo projects collapse when people try to author every asset. You're learning the opposite job: composing the frame and deciding where each piece comes from.
Half of what makes hybrid filmmaking hard solo is friction. Every tool here exists because something was too slow to survive a real production. They all come with the course.
Extra tutorials for the parts of a project that aren't a bridge, but still decide whether it gets finished.
2.5D vs 3D vs AI, generating a 3D object in ComfyUI, AI stock elements projected into 3D, decal projections, and Blender + Claude for proceduralism.
Camera path helpers and virtual camera workflows that take the robot out of CG moves.
A hero shot from The Rider, built up in Nuke version by version, look-dev decisions included.
Bonus Blender tools for grading, blending and painting large environments so they stay fast to build and art-direct.
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Taught by someone who crossed it
Senior Compositor with feature-film credits at Weta Digital, Industrial Light & Magic and Sony Pictures Imageworks, who then spent years building and finishing his own productions outside the studio system, with small teams and small budgets. This course is that second half.
Enroll during launch and save $100 on the Full Stack Filmmaker Framework™, with $1,400 in production assets and the full tool kit included.
Lifetime access · All future updates included
That's the exact problem this was built for. You need beginner Nuke and beginner Blender. Everything after that is about decisions, which is what nobody has taught you yet.
Yes. The second bridge is a complete CG integration workflow: HDRI grade matching with grey balls and a Macbeth chart, scene alignment, spatial reflections, shadow catching and the Nuke comp, using our plane-wreck shoot as the example.
The first bridge covers the other direction, putting greenscreen actors into CG worlds.
Those teach you to build and render worlds inside a game engine. This teaches you to shoot real footage and join it to CG in both directions: the on-set side, the 3D side and the finishing.
Beginner Nuke, covered by our Nuke Beginner Series, and beginner Blender, which you can get free on YouTube in 4 to 5 hours. We use Blender for world assembly, lighting and materials, not modelling from scratch.
Yes. The one limit is that Nuke Non-Commercial can't export camera tracks into Blender. We show a workaround using an alternative tracking software that costs around $30, and the rest of the course is just as relevant on Non-Commercial.
To make your own projects, yes, and whatever you have can work, even an iPhone. You can still complete the course without one since we provide the plates.
No. ComfyUI is optional and only appears in the bonus asset workflows.
There are Nuke compositing lessons, but the course covers the whole production bridge so you can create your own projects. Basics like camera tracking or keying are covered in the Nuke Beginner Series. A bonus walkthrough shows a Rider shot built up in Nuke version by version.
The hero shot assets from The Rider: greenscreen plate, lava terrain, vehicle and HDRI, plus the project files for the CG integration examples.
On top of that, you get a library you can use on your own future projects under an individual license: the full tool kit, photogrammetry scans of a real volcano's lava fields, sci-fi vehicles, explosions, dust and dirt impacts, lens effects and more.
The other productions are studied as examples; their shot assets aren't included.
Yes, for questions about the course content. We can't consult on or supervise personal projects.
We don't offer refunds once purchased, since you get immediate access to the digital content.