Why wait?

Glad you asked, yes! You will get the newest updates about the most important changes inside the RealFlow with each new version. LearnWateryDesign is based on universal knowledge about working wirth RealFlow and forces in general sense. This way you built sustanable knowledge you could use in the future, instead of having a temporary value. 

Yes, because LearnWateryDesign is built on universal knowledge about working with forces and particles in RealFlow. However, all lessons are shown on RealFlow Standalone, so you will need to adjust in a little of your effort. Some students are able to follow along regardless. 

Yes! You're in amazing spot! You will reap tremendous amount of value from LearnWateryDesign, and most importantly, you will not only be able to fix mistakes you've been doing previously,  but avoid the most painful mistakes in the first place! I've got your back. You will be guided from a to z throughout the whole process of creating 3D watery design, from planning, fluid simulations, research, to look development, and final representation to your client or/and the audience. This is what is so unique about LearnWateryDesign, connecting the dots of information and guiding you to use all the time for the most important part - practice.

Yes! Yes and again, yes! This is the deal: first, you'll be given tasks to built the mostly needed technical skills and then all of the rest will be creative tasks. Good thing is,if you will follow the guidance and be patient in building the skills first, those will be buit up one upon another in a way that eventually will help you to be the master of it all. This way you will save loads of time, there's a rule that fits: slow and steady wins. Once we get into cretive tasks, things will get groovy! Overall, I will show you how to practice with purpose and lead you to create proffesional work, great design, have lots of fun and avoide time wasting. LearnWateryDesign is based on building the knowledge and pratice simultaneously and pulls you forward by giving you guidelines to think ahead and create. Thus, you won't need sticking with already pre-made scenes, unless it will be nescessary for the purpose of some bonus feature in the future. The only exception will be that I'll be giving some presets for rendering, maps, objects and Photoshop templates to ease your work.  Mindset behind it is, if you will be just fixing pre-made 3D scenes you will not be able to do it on your own. And you are much more powerful than that. You know you can create and create great stuff! I've got our back. 

Yes, of course! Once you enroll in to the course, you will be granted a catalysee acount with personal password. Therefore, you'll be given an instant access to Part I and building the skills audio and written tasks starter. All of LearnWateryDesign is contained with online video lessons, written important notes and audio downloads for creative tasks and building the skills tasks. You can access all of it from any device: desctop, iPad or your smart phone. In addition to this you'll be given access to LearnWateryDesign dropbox library, where you are highly encouraged not only to use references for your inspiration, but upload playbacks and print screens of your project. This way I will be tracking your progress and giving you feedback once you get it going. Lastly, you will be able to see your progress visually inside the course, so you will be able to pick up easily from where you left off, and from any device! This comes handy, especially when all of the lessons of Part II will be revealed. 

We're going to use one of the mostly used tools in the industry: Fluid simulations on RealFlow2015/RealFlow10 and updates are coming for the newest versions of RealFlow, Look Development on VRay in Maya (+ quick adaptation with Redshift in Houdini, more look development in Houdini updating at the moment) Additional tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects. The only one plugin we'll definitely be using for post-production is Frischluft for Adobe After Effects (mainly Depth of Field). Other than that, course is aimed to be plug-in free in order to prepare you to do the great work in the lowest expenses needed. However, there are a few plugins in RealFlow that comes in handy, such as Q solver, which helps really gain smooth detail needed (advanced), sheeter and Macro daemon works fine to fill holes and make tendrils too, Macro close to the way Q solver does (so built-in sheeter is okay to use because it became way better lately than it was in older versions of RealFlow), however I do reccomend using Q solver for small scale splashes whenever you need high production and it is better with Q. It's important to understand, that even using plugins you need to know how to do great without them, because plugin will not save you, but your knowledge will. All images/videos you see in here are made in RF plugin free, and cherry case study of Catalysee client work was made with Q. But we do cover Q-Solver specifics.

Yes, quick heads up, most of the software are aiming to use GPU nowadays, which means you have much faster simulations. So I would suggest you to keep that in mind once you buy you're thinking to buy new workstation. RAMs are extremely important as well, especially working with post-production software. Also operating system MUST be 64bit, and I highly reccomend to have at least 3TB of space, because particle cache and meshes takes up loads of space. You can read separate requirements of each software you're going to use or write directly to custom service of theirs. However, I'm still using an old machine of mine, which I think is enough to get it going, and now it's not as expensive as it was years ago (just do not count only on me, this is the very basis, and newer graphics card with better fan is reccomended). Here it is: 1x PSU Corsair CMPSU-850TXEU ATX 850W PFC, EU version; 1x Intel Core i7-2600, 3.40GHz, 8MB, LGA1155, 32nm, 95W, BOX; 1x ASUS P8P67 Rev.3.0, P67, DDR3 1800, SATA6, GLAN, CF, ATX; 8x Corsair Vengeance 4GB, DIMM,1600MHz, DDR3, CL9,XMP,Non-ECC,with Heatsink (blue) ; 1x ASUS ENGTX560 GeForce GTX 560 DCII TOP, 1G GDDR5(256 bit), DVI,mini HDMI; 1x internal HDD WD Caviar Black 3.5'' 1TB SATA3 7200RPM 64MBcache; 1x LG SuperMulti SATA DVD+/-R22x,DVD+RW8x,DVD+R DL
16x,SecurDisc,bare bulk,black. I've lately added RTX2080 for that old machine, but keep recording mostly on that old pc to make sure you have enough to go around (most of content was recorded without RTX2080).