
UP.GRADE Berlin
3 short courses running from July to November presented and organised by the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (DFFB) and with some of the best teachers and lectures from the film and post-production industry.

Compositing & 3D
A Nuke X Digital Compositing Masterclass for Film presented by Victor Perez, a Spanish director and compositing supervisor, and a 3D Studio Max Certification to learn the fundaments of visual effects and to work closely with the other departments.

Visual Arts
High School
6 Years studying art forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture, design and architecture, as well as applied arts like industrial design, graphic design and decorative art.
From the origins of painting to early photography.
UP.GRADE Berlin
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (DFFB) Berlin, Germany
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019

Workflows
- Evaluating project requirements for versatile, colour consistent pipeline design
- The Netflix approach to workflows for colour consistency
- Explore FilmLight’s powerful array of workflow routes
- Harness ACES. DaVinci Resolve Color Management and CDLs
- Selecting an effective pathway for preproduction. VFX and mastering
- Get to grips with Truelight Colour Spaces, Truelight CAM and T.Log
TEACHERS: Tobias Schaarschmidt, CSI; Daniele Siragusano; Miga Bär

Toolset
- Grading operators to manipulate and combine image data
- Mastering variations in tool behaviour in various colorspaces
- The creative use of colour space conversions, matrices and the RGB Channel mixer
- 1D, 3D and 2.SD LUTs
- Principles of CDL, LMTs and getting into DCTL
TEACHERS: Dirk Meier, BVK; Paul Dore; Edmon Laccon; Peter Doyle

Creative
- Expanding your relationship to the images
- History of light in reproductions and colour in cinema
- Defining and realising a cinematographers artistic intent
- Exploring aesthetic attributes from set to post
- The significance of primaries vs secondaries
- Practical approaches to look development
TEACHERS: Vanessa Taylor, Pasquale Iannone, Philipp Weiss
Compositing & 3D
ViFX Digital Art School Vicenza, Italy
2015

The Foundry – Nuke X Digital Compositing for Film 2015
- Digital Image Fundamentals and Digital Compositing Basics
- Rotoscoping, Advanced Green Screen & Keying Techniques
- Camera, Photogrammetry & Camera Mapping
- Paint, Rig-Removal and The Back Plate
- CGI Light, 3D Relighting, Beauty and Arbitrary Output Vectors
TEACHER: Victor Perez (Masked Frame Pictures)

3D Studio Max 2015 Certified Professional 2015
- Polygonal and parametric modeling
- Photography and composition
- Texturing/Shading, Lighting & HDRi
- UV Mapping
TEACHER: Cristian Spagnuolo (The Mill FIlm), Cristian Sella & Riccardo Morici
Visual Arts High School
Liceo Artistico U.Boccioni Vicenza, Italy
2007 – 2014
Visual Arts Degree – Design & Applied Arts