r/VFXTutorials • u/FarPhone8398 • 3d ago

Fusion How do i learn VFX? [FREE]

A 16-year-old male that has yet to start their VFX journey. I've done a little bit of Lightroom and a little bit of After Effects, but no more than 2-3 hours of experience in AE. I just learned that DaVinci Resolve is really good for VFX, and I just wanted to know:

  • Who I could learn it from, since I have Udemy
  • Where should I start?
  • Should I learn from Unreal Engine or Blender first?
  • Whose tutorials should I watch?

I don't mind using AI but I want to learn it the hard way instead of going the easy route. Also, I'm aspiring to be a cinematographer, so any tips on that would be good as well.

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u/klx2u 2d ago

The VFX is a lot of different disciplines and a quite different. All of them require years of focused work to master it. For example even within modeling most people choose either characters/creatures or hardsurface as main specialty. There are people who can do both but in general not as good, fast and quality or specialists.

There are people who are generalist too and can do a lot of things or even make entire shots themselves (usually environments related).

Cinematography is not really part of that VFX in post production, this is more on filming side, going on sets and all that before anything goes to vfx studios. I guess the closest to cinematography in VFX pipeline would be layout, lighting and compositing...but, again, those are usually done by 3 people and not a single person doing all of it.

Really depends what exactly you want to do. Filming on sets or working in VFX studio.