Learn Real-time Virtual 3D Production for Film & Games
Personalized courses and industry mentorship to launch your career
Start your career with expert training in real-time and virtual production
To meet rising demand for skilled artists, CG Spectrum's virtual production course is designed to get you job-ready.
Take the first steps towards your career as a real-time 3d technical artist! Learn world building, lighting and camera essentials, and create a film quality cinematic shot using the Unreal Engine. With a real-time artist as your mentor, you'll learn practical job skills and how they can be applied in the real world for job roles on a stage volume.
Why learn virtual production at CG Spectrum:
- Unreal Academic Partner & Unreal Authorized Training Center
- Course developed and mentored by industry pros
- Job-focused curriculum and additional career support
- 100% online, study from anywhere!
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As an Unreal Academic Partner and one of the Top 50 Best Creative Media & Entertainment Art Schools in the World, CG Spectrum is excited to offer career training in real-time 3D technical art and virtual production using Unreal Engine.
This ever-expanding field is rife with career opportunities, and CG Spectrum has partnered with Epic Games and industry professionals to develop a comprehensive, job-focused study pathway to ensure graduates are well-positioned to enter this field and make a productive contribution from day one on the job.
These skills are practical for new content creators as well as traditional filmmakers wanting to transition their existing skills to the virtual production environment.
Gain speed and confidence with Unreal Engine, learn cutting edge real-time 3d and virtual production techniques and create a high-quality cinematic shot for your portfolio to show employers.
REAL-TIME & VIRTUAL PRODUCTION STUDY PATHWAY
Start your journey towards becoming a real-time 3d technical artist with CG Spectrum's exhilarating new virtual production study pathway. Using the Unreal Engine, you'll discover how to create film quality environments, lighting, and atmospherics, plus how to pair these skills with their real-world equivalents for job roles on a stage volume.
3 MONTHS
Course summary:
In this real-time 3d for beginners course, you'll start with the fundamentals of Unreal Engine, learning a wide variety of features using the editor, working with different materials, rigging and animating characters, and motion capture basics.
Developing a good foundation in this area is essential for moving on to the Real-time 3D and Virtual Production Course where you'll apply your new skills to create a film-quality cinematic shot.
9 MONTHS
Course summary:
Learn how to create film quality environments, lighting, and atmospherics, plus how these skills translate in the real world on a stage volume.
Starting with world building, you'll create landscapes using Unreal and QuadSpinner Gaea before moving on to advanced texture blending, auto materials, and water systems. Next, you'll look at all lighting, VFX, and the post process volume to bring your scene to life. You'll understand how to work with cameras, rigs, lights, and digital humans to create a compelling scene for your portfolio.
Students of this course receive additional 1-on-1 career support, portfolio reviews, and industry insights from CG Spectrum's Career Development Manager.
Note: The Introduction to Real-time 3D & Virtual Production Certificate or an equivalent portfolio submission is a prerequisite for this more advanced virtual production course.
Simon Warwick
Simon has been working in the game industry since 2005, and was credited as the only technical cinematic animator for Batman: Arkham City at Rocksteady Studios.
Read full bioDept. Head of Real-Time 3D
Known for Batman: Arkham Knight
Carl Shedd
Carl has worked in the industry professionally for over 17 years. He started his career at Gearbox Software and is currently a World Building Director at Gearbox Software.
Read full bioMentor of Virtual Production
Known for Borderlands franchise
William Faucher
William is a Real-time TD and Unreal Artist. He shares his passion for Unreal Engine with artists and creators through his highly popular tutorials.
Read full bioMentor of Real-Time 3D
Known for Unreal Engine Education
Deepak Chetty
Deepak is the Producer for film, TV, and virtual production at Epic Games' Unreal Online Learning platform and is sharing his real time production expertise with students at CG Spectrum.
Read full bioMentor of Virtual Production
Known for Gen: Lock
Justin Mohlman
Justin has brought dozens of games to life in his 2-decade career. Credits include Tony Hawk, Mortal Kombat, and other AAA titles like Singularity and Stranglehold.
Read full bioMentor of Foundations
Known for Mortal Kombat Franchise
Jon Robins
Jon currently works as a Lead Character Technical Artist at Striking Distance Studios where he loves solving problems and helping teams in as many ways as he can.
Read full bioMentor of Real-Time 3D
Known for Marvel's Avengers
Currently halfway through real-time world building with William Faucher, and I cannot recommend it enough.
The ability to have your level gauged and directed as to where it needs to be by someone within the industry in real-time is priceless. The personal feedback is also second to none.
I can't speak highly enough about the school.
When I came to CG Spectrum I had 20 years of live entertainment experience, and they seamlessly transferred me from physical to virtual production.
I enrolled looking for a career change...
I didn't have any knowledge about digital arts. Now I can accomplish my dream of creating cinematics within fantasy worlds to tell stories or apply any artistic idea and make it happen with all the new tools under my belt. If you have passion, and need time flexibility, consider joining the amazing community and start your new journey exploring, exchanging, sharing and, most importantly, learning.
CG Spectrum offers unconditional support.
I want to thank the entire CG Spectrum staff and mentors for their unconditional support, for sharing beyond the course syllabus, and for always giving 100% in everything.
I can't stress enough how much I'm enjoying studying here!
I started the course out of curiosity, I was brand new to this world but I feel like I got all the answers that I needed and even more.
Having a mentor definitely helped! It was awesome to have someone I could reach out to when I was stuck.
Getting the weekly feedback also helped in terms of what to improve and what to focus on next. In Term 3, we learned Unreal Engine; I implemented the knowledge I gained in that course to my Advanced 3D Modeling Course to create some additional renders that demonstrated my understanding of using and integrating game-ready assets into an actual game engine.
I was hired by Ubisoft!
It’s your career success that matters. I applied to some companies with my updated reel and got hired by a studio named Dwarf-Labs where I did some animations for a CG commercial. Then I was hired by Ubisoft where I worked on one of their biggest franchises, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate!
An amazing journey!
This course is a complete package with the goal of helping us conquer our dream job! I didn't expect to find a C++ programming course aimed at the gaming industry and of such quality. The big difference the guidance of a high-level professional: Bryan Griffiths in my case! In addition to masterfully explaining technical questions, he shares immeasurable knowledge of the industry.
CG Spectrum is helping me grow as a game designer and as a person.
Both my mentor Andrejs Verlis and Dept. Head, Troy Dunniway, have been so encouraging and empowering. It doesn’t even feel like school. I’m finally seeing so many of my interests culminate, and I’m excited to leverage the great networking and career development here for a beautiful future.
I got a job offer at a major feature film studio before even graduating!
Studying at CG Spectrum gave me the opportunity to network with industry artists while I was learning, and coupled with the amazing course, I was able to secure a position in the industry. Now I'm working on amazing projects in my dream job!
