image ireland VFX academy

Website: www.imageireland.ie Courses offered (online & in-house): Character Modelling for Games, Zbrush hard surface Modelling, Creature design, Character rigging, Concept Art in Photoshop, nuke Compositing, fluid dynamics, lighting, Acting for Animators, storyboarding students: Max of eight per course After working in visual effects for over 20 years, in 2013, Stephen Lohan set up Image Ireland, a dedicated VFX studio based in Dublin. The country’s first and only dedicated VFX school and the first Foundry-authorised Nuke training centre, Image Ireland encompasses everything from compositing, Zbrush sculpting and 3D modelling to storyboarding and photography.

Courses are intensive, and are taught by some of the best artists in the world, who have worked on titles including Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Terminator and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Image Ireland also offers an incubation hub, in which you’ll get the opportunity to work with experienced tutors to develop original content.