An overview of creating computer-generated (CG) images

- [Instructor] So as I was creating this course, … I don't really know what your background is. … You might be a director or producer looking to … kind of just get familiar with visual effects … and what's possible. … Or you might be an editor … that actually looking to get your fingers dirty … and get into visual effects yourself, … but in any case I thought it might be helpful … to give you a very brief, … high level overview of making computer generated, … or CG imagery. … We're going to be referencing CG images … or also 3D images as it's called oftentimes. … But we're going to referencing that stuff a lot … in these visual effects courses … as many core elements such as, … the canyon scene in the finale, … Galhauten, … the brush and the explosion scene, … the campfire logs in the aerial shot, … the candles and the helmet scene, … and more were all created in 3D programs. … So the basic workflow of 3D is … that first you create and shape a 3D object. … The object is called a model, …