Instant Access includes all on-demand FX courses. Live mentored classes are not included.
Instant Access Course Catalog
Everything included, organized by track.
All 2D, 3D, and 2.5D courses below are including with Instant Access. Nothing here requires a separate purchase or scheduled live class.
2D FX Courses
Start with animation principles and software fundamentals or create series-ready FX and stylized in-game assets.
3D VFX Courses
Dive into real-time lessons teaching VFX and particle systems for industry-standard game engines.
VFX Apprentice Toolkit
Breakdown VFX projects, build and play in real-time game engines, and see how VFX artists create effects for games.
2D FX Courses for Games and Animation
20+ Courses | Beginner & Intermediate
Master stylized, professional-level FX principles for gaming and animation,
from foundational mechanics to polished, portfolio-ready assets.
2D FX Explosion Masterclass
Create a massive 2D explosion inspired by FX created for television.
Ignited - 2D FX Animation
Work through a fiery animated short from the concept phase through production.
2D FX Animated Title/Logo Masterclass
Step-by-step breakdown of a 2D FX artists maximizing the excitement of an effect for a slick title logo.
VFX Paintover Series
VFX supervisors use paintovers to offer feedback. Learn to enhance your FX concepts through the feedback process.
FX for Characters
Create a variety of VFX for different characters. Pick up crucial aspects of creating fire, smoke, electricity, and more.
2D FX Meme Lab
Budgets dictate the style and level of detail when creating effects. Let's breakdown the difference!
Post Process and Mograph
Learn various post-process techniques that make your FX shine in After Effects.
Applied Foundations - FX Animations
Animate 2DFX like fireballs, lightning, sparkles, and negative blips to create next-level effects.
Animating Small 2D FX
Start with the leading motion and finish with a ready-to-show FX flipbook.
Animating Medium 2D FX
Make directional fire, bubble bursts, and water flings with complex shapes.
Intro to FX Concept Painting
Get to know painting techniques to create fire, wisps, zaps, and goo.
FX Concept Painting Elemental Studies
Create concept art for elemental explosions, splats, and zap effects.
FX Design Principles
Learn the fundamentals of effects animation to help you plan out designs.
Drawing Foundations
Good old-fashioned pen and paper drawing lessons focusing on linework and perspective.
Intro to Toon Boom Harmony
Dive into the popular 2DFX animation software with this step-by-step burst effect.
Intro to Photoshop for VFX
Get up to speed on the Photoshop tools, layers, adjustments, and pro tips.
Intro to Adobe Animate
Create FX flipbooks with Adobe Animate by making an animated swipe effect.
3D VFX Courses for Games
12+ Courses | Beginner & Intermediate
Targeted training focused on real-time game pipelines in Unreal and Unity.
Everything to equip you with the technical and artistic expertise to excel in your game development career.
Booms & Blasts
The definitive course for real-time stylized FX for Unreal Engine and Unity. Create explosions, wisps, lightning, and splats.
Procedural Textures in Substance Designer
Create seamless textures using Adobe Substance 3D Designer.
Beginner's Guide to VFX
Learn about game development and the teams, styles, and tools used to make games.
Elemental Studies in Unreal
Study and create fire, water, lightning and more in Unreal Engine.
Color Theory for Visual Effects
Learn how color works and how to create color palettes for your effects.
Unreal Engine 5 Niagara Block-in VFX
Start making Niagara effects in Unreal Engine 5. Start with a collection of block-in VFX like fire, hit impacts, and explosions.
Intro to Materials for Unreal Engine 5
Navigate the node-based Shader interface in Unreal Engine and learn key concepts when creating UE materials for VFX.
Unity Block-in VFX
Start making effects in the Unity game engine. Learn Get started with block-in VFX like fire, hit impacts, and explosions.
Intro to Shaders in Unity
Learn about node-based Shaders and how to create them inside of the Unity game engine.
VFX Foundations & Artistic Principles
Learn how VFX are used to inform gameplay with their use of shape, color, value, and timing.
Modeling for VFX
Modeling meshes for VFX allows you to create a variety of different effects.
Intermediate 2D/3D and 2.5D FX Courses
Bridge the gap between design and implementation with training
that blends 2D and 3D theory to make game-ready assets that stand out!
Attacks: Production-Level FX Breakdowns
Breakdown production-ready attack FX and study the design of projectiles, slashes, and explosions.
Magic Shield: Production-Level FX Breakdowns
Create a magical shield in Unreal Engine 5 using the Niagara particle system. Learn how to import VFX into UEFN.
Game FX for Sidescrollers
Dive into the Unreal Engine sidescroller FX pipeline and create in-game spells and healing effects.
Portfolios and Job Applications
A series offering insight into creating portfolios that will impress professional artists and companies.
Tools for Every Apprentice
Work and play in game engines.
Create and kitbash real-time VFX in tools trusted by AAA game developers and studios.
VFX Asset Library
Build and play with real-time VFX.
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 VFX artists behind your favorite worlds
Study under veteran FX artists led by Jason Keyser. Absorb techniques used to create legendary visual styles across games and animation.
Meet Your Instructors
Direct Feedback
Member-only feedback channels offer clear critiques and guidance from VFX artists. No more hitting creative or technical roadblocks.
Weekly Live Sessions
Instant Access members are invited to weekly live sessions every Monday and Wednesday. Pick up in-demand skills studios are looking for.
Global Community
Connect with thousands of students, creators, and working artists in a Discord server. Share work, swap tips, and stay motivated.
What Professional VFX Artists Say
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.
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.
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.
