Jahirul Amin
CAVE Academy Founder and VFX Teacher
Before launching CAVE Academy, Jahirul Amin worked as a VFX Trainer for the multi Oscar-winning VFX studio, DNEG London, published and co-authored a number of books for 3D Total, and created training content for 3D Total, 3D Artist and CG Circuit. His role at DNEG included designing and delivering training on all stages of the DNEG VFX pipeline from onset data acquisition, to assets and shots, and creating and maintaining the in-house documentation covering pipeline, workflows and best practices. Since the launch of CAVE Academy in 2018, he has released over 10 on-demand courses, and run numerous online, in-person and remote training courses for companies such as: Warner Bros. Discovery, Framestore, Rebellion, Union, BlueBolt, Clear Angle Studios, BBC Media (Tunisia), Lumine Studios (Indonesia), Bournemouth University, Filmakademie, NFTS and Creative Media Skills. His relationships with industry have also allowed me to continue working directly on production projects. with companies such as Clear Angle Studios, and currently he is supporting Bentley/Paramex on their car configurator, and many other companies on pipeline design and workflow support.
Events featuring Jahirul Amin
Creating Expressive Faces for Games, VFX and Animation
Jahirul Amin of CAVE Academy introduces FACS, (Facial Action Coding System) to create expressive faces. You'll study the anatomy of the human face, the universal expressions and micro expressions. Following on from this, you work in Maya and ZBrush to take a neutral head and create a more expressive face.
Book here.