What do you want to learn in the later stage of film and television? Is it difficult to learn this?

There are many skills learned in the later stage of film and television.

First, special effects synthesis software: AfterEffects(AE), Nuke, Fusion.

2.3D animation software: 4D cinema (C4D), Maya, 3D Max, Houdini.

1, aftereffect (AE for short)

Adobe is a professional nonlinear editing software for high-end video editing system. Combined with the success of many softwares, video editing and synthesis has risen to a new height. AE has strong compatibility and can easily import layer files of PS and Illustrator. The transformers we saw used AE.

2. Premiere

It is also a product of adobe, a video editing software, which is mostly used in conjunction with AE. Premiere is an indispensable editing tool for video editing enthusiasts and professionals. Its Premiere provides a complete set of processes of collecting, editing, toning, beautifying audio, adding subtitles, outputting and burning DVD, and is efficiently integrated with other Adobe software, so that you can meet all the challenges in editing, production and workflow.

3. Nuclear weapons

The powerful post-synthesis video software FOUNDRY NUKE V6.0 is a powerful starting point. The synthesis software based on Nuke channel is used for super-advanced vfx special effects synthesis of single-shot pictures, which can support the synthesis of 1023 channel information at most. Nuke must be used when the 3D vfx composite resolution exceeds 4k.

4.4D Cinema (C4D for short)

When you use C4D software, you don't want to use Maya and 3D Max. The advantage of this software is that it is quick to use. It can be mastered in about a month, which is very suitable for small white and special effects producers with 2~3 years of post-film experience. There is another bright spot: it can be well connected with AE.

5.Autodesk Maya (Maya)

Maya is a very popular 3D animation software, and its company is Autodesk, which integrates many 3D softwares and basically occupies a dominant position in the whole industry. Maya is used in most visual design fields abroad, and even in China, the software is becoming more and more popular. Many companies have begun to use Maya as their main creative tool. Maya is widely used, such as Star Wars series, Spider-Man series, Final Fantasy and Madagascar. Maya special effects module has a complete and powerful cloth system, cloud and smoke system, ocean creation system, water and liquid module, perfect dynamic system, powerful particle system and so on.

6.3D Studio Max (abbreviated as 3D Max)

Its predecessor is 3D Studio series software based on DOS operating system. The combination of 3D Studio Max+Windows NT suddenly lowered the threshold of CG production. At first, it was used for animation of computer games, and later it began to participate in the production of special effects of movies and TV, such as X-Men II, the Last Warrior and so on. Easy to learn, high production efficiency, and the rendered picture is not bad.

7. The flagship product of Houdini Side Effect Software is an effective tool to create advanced visual effects. Because of his ability to span the entire product line of the company, Master Houdini has provided unprecedented ability and work efficiency for animators who want to make computer animation more exciting. Houdini's own renderer is Mantra, which is based on Reyes rendering architecture, so it can also quickly render motion blur, depth of field and displacement effects.

In addition to the feature synthesis software mentioned above, there are many excellent softwares, so I won't list them here. Among them, the combination of AE and C4DDE is a tool used by mainstream companies.

In fact, I suggest that you master the specific skills of two kinds of synthesis software. You will find that these softwares are concrete means to realize these principles, and there is not much difference in essence, but the interface form and operation mode are very different. If you can realize this and learn other synthesis software, it will be a piece of cake.

Finally, for a special effects synthesizer, it is very important to choose software. But it is more important to grasp the camera and feel the film. While mastering a special effects synthesis software, we should observe more, learn more knowledge outside the software and integrate it into our own films. Only in this way can we become an excellent special effects synthesizer.