Level Up Your Art with Veteran Feedback
VFX Apprentice All Access is a massive training community designed to help you master stylized 2D and 3D effects.
Instead of guessing your way through random tutorials, you get the exact skills, project assets, and direct mentor critiques needed for your artistic growth.
Your Core Toolkit: How We Fast-Track Your Growth
- Move step-by-step from beginner fundamentals to advanced real-time engine implementation
- No more getting stuck: bring your projects to our live sessions to get your technical and artistic roadblocks solved in real time
- Get clear, actionable written critiques from mentors working in the industry who know exactly how to polish your work
- Save hours of tedious setup with downloadable, professional base assets that let you jump straight into kitbashing and creating
- Connect with students, independent creators, and VFX pros in our exclusive Discord channels to swap tips and stay motivated.
What's Included?
VFX Training
Move step-by-step from absolute beginner fundamentals to advanced real-time engine implementation at your own pace, without the guesswork of random tutorials.
Global Community
Instantly connect with thousands of fellow students, independent creators, and working artists in our dedicated Discord server to share your work, swap tips, and stay motivated.
Feedback Channels
No more hitting creative or technical roadblocks. Get direct feedback and clear critiques from top-tier mentors who help you polish your effects and elevate your work to a studio standard.
Choose Your Own Path or Follow a Proven Roadmap
Dive into any 2D, 3D, or real-time course, or follow our step-by-step learning tracks designed to guide you from foundation skills straight through to advanced engine implementation.
2D FX Courses
Start with animation principles and software fundamentals or create broadcast-ready FX and stylized in-game assets.
3D FX Courses
Dive into real-time focused lessons teaching VFX and particle systems for industry-standard game engines.
Monthly New Lessons
All Access includes instant access to new lessons every month. New courses cover a variety of new software and VFX.
Build Your Projects inside Real Game Sandboxes
Master the exact creative software used by major studios, and drop your custom effects straight into our interactive game environments to see exactly how your work performs in real time.
Sidescroller
Preview FX and work inside of a fully functioning sidescroller environment for Unreal Engine and Unity.
3D Sandbox
Explore and build FX in a 3D sandbox environment. See and feel your FX in real time with Unreal Engine and Unity.
Learn Directly from the Artists Behind Your Favorite Worlds
Meet a team of veteran artists led by Jason Keyser. You get to absorb the techniques used to create legendary visual styles across titles like:
- League of Legends & Arcane
- World of Warcraft & Hearthstone
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Testimonials
Luke Mason
VFX Artist - Blizzard Entertainment
The comprehensive photoshop lessons forever changed how I paint, whether it be for texture painting or concepting. I haven't followed anything that so directly led me towards personal growth as a digital artist.
Kevin Leroy
VFX Artist - Riot Games
I truly wish this website existed when I first started VFX. It's full of industry-defining training covering a vast diversity of subjects. More importantly, it covers different engines and software. From concepting to in-engine implementations, these courses have it all, and it is all of the highest quality.
Fred Hooper
Lead VFX Artist - NVIDIA
VFX Apprentice is THE go-to place to learn real time visual effects. Jason will teach you how to make effects from the ground up from an artistic and technical perspective. The VFX Apprentice courses will start you on the path to becoming a real time VFX artist.
Financial Aid
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up to 70% off the current
Monthly All Access
We are interested in your story, and what drives you to learn.
Our team carefully reviews every application, and each discount is personalized accordingly.
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