Animation and VFX

• Trace the historical evolution of visual-effects techniques and articulate the function of each stage in a contemporary VFX pipeline (pre-production, on-set supervision, and post-production).
• Use colour theory and grading workflows to shape mood, continuity, and narrative impact across live-action and CG-augmented shots.
• Capture motion-capture sessions, clean and retarget the data, and combine tracked performances with CG assets or live plates.
• Execute professional rotoscoping and advanced chroma-keying—handling hair, motion blur, and stereo pairs—to generate clean, production-ready mattes.
• Perform 2-D, planar, and 3-D camera tracking (including lens-distortion workflows) to anchor CG or matte-painted elements seamlessly into moving footage.
• Produce kinetic typography, logo animations, and particle-based effects (fire, smoke, rain, explosions) that integrate convincingly within composite shots.
• Combine multi-pass renders, HDR imagery, lighting, and camera moves to create digital set extensions, sky replacements, depth-of-field, and parallax effects.
• Estimate costs, schedule resources, automate workflows with scripts/expressions, iterate through client feedback, and output a polished, production-ready sequence that meets technical and storytelling goals.

• Describe the evolution of VFX, major historical milestones, and the roles of pre-production, production, and post-production stages in a modern VFX pipeline.
• Analyse the psychological impact of colour and perform primary/secondary colour-grading to reinforce mood and continuity across multi-shot sequences.
• Differentiate optical, inertial, and marker-less MoCap systems, record a basic performance, clean the data, and retarget it to a digital character.
• Generate articulate mattes—including hair and stereo pairs—using shape, point-track, and planar-track workflows; export renders for downstream compositing.
• Remove chroma backdrops with advanced keyers (Keylight, IBK) and refine edges with spill suppression, light-wrap, grain-matching, and garbage mattes.
• Create and animate text, logos, and infographic elements using masks, mattes, graph-editor curves, and plug-ins to communicate information visually.
• Perform 2-D point, planar, and 3-D camera tracking; solve lens distortion; and insert CG or matte-painted elements that lock seamlessly to live-action plates.
• Integrate multi-pass renders, HDR footage, lights, and cameras in After Effects/Nuke to create depth-of-field, parallax, sky-replacement, and digital set-extension shots.
• Employ Trapcode, Optical Flares, Particular CC, or equivalent tools to simulate rain, smoke, fire, explosions, and abstract particle trails within composited scenes.
• Estimate resources and costs, organise assets, automate repetitive tasks with scripts/expressions, iterate through client feedback, and output a polished, production-ready sequence that meets technical and storytelling goals.

The Academic Approach of the course focuses on the “work centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book !), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as well as development of the society.

Learning methodology

• Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
• Learners are then exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the architecture of the tool or Tool Map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions and their inter-relations.
• Learners are then exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level
• Learners then perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made outputs.
• Learners are then engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Learners are then encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• After imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression.

Evaluation Pattern of DEEP Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

MKCL’s DEEP Certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
   • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments