Your source for professional Nuke and VFX training.

LearnVFX combines video training and professional mentoring to fulfill Aaron Estrada's vision of creating a community where students of VFX and animation can come together to learn from peers and mentors.

Aaron Estrada is a VFX and animation veteran with 20 years of experience, 14 feature film credits and several TV and location based entertainment credits. 

IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0261785  
Linked-In page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronestrada

Aaron currently offers recorded online courses and remote mentoring, where students may subscribe to weekly Live Q&A sessions and get personal feedback on their assignments.

Check out our current flagship training courses: Learn Digital Compositing in Nuke NK101 and NK201 here: Courses

Several of Aaron's alumni and mentees have gone on to get jobs at major studios, including ILM, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digital Domain, and Tippet Studios. At least two alumni are working at a Los Alamos National Lab.

Check out what former students have to say about the quality of  training and mentorship they received from Aaron here:  Praise

Beyond the challenges of learning the technical and artistic aspects of VFX are the more subtle considerations that sometimes block students from attaining a high level of mastery.

There are two major impediments that students encounter when honing their professional skills. The first is access to professional mentoring.   A good mentor will help you calibrate your “eye” and coach you on the “soft skills” you will need to enter the workforce. What differentiates our training from most other on-line training options is the high level of direct mentorship students receive. We want you to succeed. 

The second impediment students often encounter  is a lack of opportunity to practice at a professional level. Ask anyone who has graduated university and started their career and they will tell you they learned vastly more in their first year on the job than in four years in school. Through LearnVFX, we connect students to opportunities for collaboration and practice at a PROFESSIONAL LEVEL, by providing challenging high-level assets for students to practice with. In most cases, there will be tutorials associated with these assets, but sometimes the assets will simply be provided as raw plates students may use as they please to improve their demo reels.

Check out our Courses page for freebie assets and Tutorials.

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