Apprenticeship training course

Junior visual effects - VFX artist or assistant technical director - ATD (level 4)

Create high quality, performant visuals within budgets.

• Qualification level: 4 ; Equivalent to higher national certificate (HNC).
• Typical duration: 18 months
• Apprenticeship category: Creative and design
• Maximum funding: £10,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Also known as:
  • Assistant technical director
  • Cg artist
  • Cg generalist
  • Junior 2d artist
  • Junior 3d artist
  • Junior compositor
  • Junior pipeline technical director
  • Layout artist
  • Lighting artist
  • Matchmove artist
  • Previz artist
  • Roto/prep artist
  • Technical runner
  • Texture artist
• Skills:
  Skills an apprentice will learn

  • Identify the information required, and gather the appropriate research or reference materials to carry out your work to expected creative, narrative and technical standards on each production
  • Select the appropriate software and technique to meet the required standards and tasks, taking into account the needs of other departments in the production pipeline
  • Use appropriate techniques to reduce degradation of the source material
  • Identify render errors and fix/escalate them as appropriate
  • Work in line with agreed workflows, adapting to operational and creative changes as they occur
  • Operate within and adhere to agreed organisational policies, standards and procedures such as health & safety, confidentiality, security, asset storage and legal and regulatory requirements
  • Manage own workload and operate both individually and as part of a wider VFX team, keeping colleagues, clients and/or other departments updated on progress and report any issues arising
  • Use reliable information to keep-up-to date with the new tools, software, data and other related technology, and how they affect your work
  • Interpret and correct lens distortion, parallax and overscan
  • Multitask on simultaneous projects, often for different clients, deciding how to prioritise the work to ensure that all tasks are completed on schedule
  • Respond positively to feedback on work, making refinements as needed
  • Apply the naming conventions, file formats and version control for the work
  • Deliver content in the correct format as required by the employer and clients
  • Use maths to describe problems, recreate physical systems or manipulate computer generated geometry
  • Move, store and organise assets created, ensuring data integrity, in order to enable their use throughout the rest of the pipeline
  • Analyse and determine the most appropriate approach to carry out the work
  • Trouble shoot VFX problems, taking responsibility for the course of action followed, including identifying opportunities to deliver viable solutions and sharing these outcomes.

Full information on Junior visual effects - VFX artist or assistant technical director - ATD (level 4) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

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