Live Mentorship | Limited Seats
$175 /week
Billed as one payment of $1400 for the full 8 weeks. Additional payment options available.
This course includes:
- 8 live classes with mentors
- Weekly review sessions
- Projects and assignments
- VFX Apprentice asset library
- Permanent curriculum vault access
- 3 months of Instant Access courses
Gaming VFX Beginner Bootcamp
Beginner Level | 8-Week Mentored Course
Learn VFX for games from scratch. This beginner course dives into 2D and 3D FX foundations to teach you drawing, painting, game engines, and particle systems. Develop your first effect in a real-time game engine with a professional VFX Artist guiding you along the way over eight weeks.
Mentors: Gabriel "Nibilli" Boileau
Next Start: Early 2027
What you will learn in class
- Gaming VFX fundamentals from scratch
- 2D FX animation and timing principles
- VFX design principles and physical elements
- Real-time VFX in Unreal Engine or Unity
- Create textures, shaders, and materials
- Game-ready assets and particle systems
8 Week Course Breakdown
Week 1 - Intro to 2D FX
Learn the fundamentals of timing, and apply them in practice while creating small 2D FX in Adobe Animate or another tool of your choice.
Week 2 - FX Foundations
Discover the Design principles, such as physical properties and composition. Understand perspective, line weight and try them on paper.
Week 3 - FX Artistry
Continue your 2D FX practice with more complex looping animations, or pivot to learn and apply concept painting techniques.
Week 4 - Advanced 2D Techniques
What are VFX if not organized forces of nature? Study how the elements behave, and apply those principles to enrich your art.
Week 5 - Intro to 3D VFX
Get acquainted with Unity or Unreal: start by recreating block-ins to practice timing and learn the base toolset of your chosen engine.
Week 6 - Textures & Meshes
Building blocks of VFX: discover how to make good textures (hand-painted or procedurally) and meshes for your effects.
Week 7 - Shaders & Materials
Practice making shaders in Unreal or Unity: learn the tools from ground zero, and try techniques widely used in the industry.
Week 8 - Particle Systems
Assemble the results of your hard work making assets and learning the fundamentals, and create your first effect in the engine!
Mentors & FX Courses
Weekly sessions with our mentors to guide you, plus access to our vast All Access learning materials.
What you walk away with
- Direct feedback from pro VFX artists
- A custom completed visual effect
- VFX asset downloads and references
- Hands on experience in game engines
Your Beginner Bootcamp VFX Mentor
Gabriel "Nibilli" Boileau
Gabi has worked as a VFX / Tech Artist on projects including Horizon Zero Dawn (Virtuos Games), VALORANT (Riot Games), and World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment).
They're a staple in the VFX Apprentice community, welcoming new artists with kindness and confidence to tackle any task. You can often find Gabi sharing tricks in hangouts or creating effects in follow-along sessions.
Outside of work, Gabi enjoys Tabletop RPGs and exploring the outdoors. They are also a huge fan of traditional animation.
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94% of Graduates Recommend VFX Apprentice Mentored Courses
Lachlan Dunbar
Graduate - Gaming VFX Beginner Bootcamp
VFX Apprentice took me from someone fumbling in the dark with FX to been moved from rigging to vfx full time at work.
I couldn't be more grateful for that!!
Kevin Leroy
VFX Artist - Riot Games
I truly wish this existed when I started VFX. It's full of industry-defining resources.
More importantly: it covers different engines and software. From concepting to in-engine, this course has it all, and it is all of the highest quality.
Oliver Mendez
Graduate - Stylized VFX for Games
The content is great, the teacher's ability to motivate students is really inspiring, and overall the experience has been excellent.
I would love to join another mentorship as soon as I can. 🙂
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