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Allan McKay is a Director & Visual Effects Specialist. Working primarily on Hollywood films, some of his more recent effects sequences work have been for Superman Returns, Blade Trinity, Exorcist: The Beginning, Paycheck, Scooby Doo 2, Inspector Gadget and dozens of other feature films. Allan has also consulted as a specialist on projects such as Hellboy, Day After Tomorrow, Destroy All Humans 2 and Def Jam 3.

With over 12 years of experience, Allan has raised the standard of VFX in both feature films and Games. Allan is well respected amongst both his peers and fans as he so freely sharing a lot of his techniques and methodology with both peers and aspiring beginners alike.

Outside of Hollywood, Allan has worked with a lot of the more prestige studios including Blur Studio, Frantic Films, Digital Dimension, Reel FX, Infogrames, and Valve Software amongst others.

Allan has also worked on a lot of big name projects such as the opening ceremony for 2006 Asian Games held in Doha, various concept cars for Toyota, Key speaker at many master classes at Siggraph, as well as speaking all over the world. Allan has close involvement with the development of a lot of today’s industry standard software as well as a very close relationship with Autodesk.

Currently Allan works both as a director for various big game cinematic and visual effects orientated projects, as well as consulting as a visual effects specialist around the world, helping other studios and facilities with their workflow, pipeline and raising the standards on what people can expect from CG. Allan has recently finished up on the new feature film thriller, Asylum, as well as the very popular Halo Wars and Bioshock and Warhammer Cinematics from Blur Studio.

In addition, Allan has released two training DVDs, Advanced Visual Effects and Advanced Visual Effects 2.

Fume FX - Hollywood Digital Pyrotechnics
with Allan McKay

Course starts 13 October 2008.

Registration: Closed

Hollywood Technical Director & Visual Effects Specialist Allan McKay is back to take students through the world of Hollywood Digital Pyrotechnics using FumeFX. With the new implementation of fluids into 3D Studio Max in the form of the plugin FumeFX – visual effects has never been so fun! However, tackling a subject like fluids to most can be quite tricky to grasp, let alone master as the learning curve can sometimes be quite steep. In this class, Allan will take the bull by the horns and jump right into creating high end visual effects and mentoring students in their creations of digital fire, explosions and other cool content.

Have a look at Allan's Showreel here.

Some of Allans more recent effects sequences have been for Superman Returns’, ‘Blade Trinity’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Scooby Doo 2’ and ‘Inspector Gadget’, just to name a few.


” I had a great time in the course because the instructor is someone that I have high respect for and wanted to learn all I could from.”
Michael Russell, Student, FumeFX April 2008

” I learned a great deal of information about this particular plugin and more on Dynamics and particle systems.”
Eric Ennis, Student, FumeFX April 2008


More information >>

Visual Effects for Film
with Allan McKay

Course starts 18 August 2008.

Registration: Closed


In this fantastic workshop, Hollywood Technical Director & Visual Effects Specialist Allan McKay is back to showcase the 3ds Max plug-ins AfterBurn and PFlow tools and demonstrate their full power in creating amazing visual effects. Allan will illustrate the techniques for producing incredible animation such as procedural tornados and making believable explosions, ground fog, clouds and more. Starting with simple examples, Allan works up to more complex effects that need to be seen to be believed.

Have a look at Allan's Showreel here.

Some of Allans more recent effects sequences have been for Superman Returns’, ‘Blade Trinity’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Scooby Doo 2’ and ‘Inspector Gadget’ , just to name a few.

Throughout this workshop, students will be jumping into both introductory subjects as well as more exciting and ambitious topics, such as explosions, twisters, and creature effects. Previous 3ds Max experience is required for this class, however, if students have some shader and particle background and have little or no experience with particle flow, they are still welcome to participate.

By workshop end, students should be very comfortable with effects, having developed a very good insight into the creation of some of todays’ bigger budget FX films.

“The complete and through introduction to VFX. Was great to have a industry expert sharing both great tutorials with practical industry tips and tricks.".
Chad Naeger, Student

Allan’s training DVDs:
Advanced Visual Effects
Advanced Visual Effects 2

More information >>

Fume FX - Hollywood Digital Pyrotechnics
with Allan McKay

Course starts 09 June 2008.

Registration: Closed

In this exciting workshop, Hollywood Technical Director & Visual Effects Specialist Allan McKay will take students through the world of Hollywood Digital Pyrotechnics using FumeFX. With the new implementation of fluids into 3D Studio Max in the form of the plugin FumeFX – visual effects has never been so fun! However, tackling a subject like fluids to most can be quite tricky to grasp, let alone master as the learning curve can sometimes be quite steep. In this class, Allan will take the bull by the horns and jump right into creating high end visual effects and mentoring students in their creations of digital fire, explosions and other cool content.

Have a look at Allan's Showreel here.

Some of Allans more recent effects sequences have been for Superman Returns’, ‘Blade Trinity’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Scooby Doo 2’ and ‘Inspector Gadget’, just to name a few.


” I had a great time in the course because the instructor is someone that I have high respect for and wanted to learn all I could from.”
Michael Russell, Student, FumeFX April 2008

” I learned a great deal of information about this particular plugin and more on Dynamics and particle systems.”
Eric Ennis, Student, FumeFX April 2008


More information >>

Visual Effects for Film
with Allan McKay

Course starts 07 April 2008.

Registration: Closed


In this fantastic workshop, Hollywood Technical Director & Visual Effects Specialist Allan McKay will be at hand to guide and mentor students in the use of 3ds Max plug-ins AfterBurn and PFlow tools to showcase their full power in creating amazing visual effects. Allan will illustrate the techniques for producing incredible animation such as procedural tornados and making believable explosions, ground fog, clouds and more. Starting with simple examples, Allan works up to more complex effects that need to be seen to be believed.

Have a look at Allan's Showreel here.

Some of Allans more recent effects sequences have been for Superman Returns’, ‘Blade Trinity’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Scooby Doo 2’ and ‘Inspector Gadget’ , just to name a few.

Throughout this workshop, students will be jumping into both introductory subjects as well as more exciting and ambitious topics, such as explosions, twisters, and creature effects. Previous 3ds Max experience is required for this class, however, if students have some shader and particle background and have little or no experience with particle flow, they are still welcome to participate.

By workshop end, students should be very comfortable with effects, having developed a very good insight into the creation of some of todays’ bigger budget FX films.

“The complete and through introduction to VFX. Was great to have a industry expert sharing both great tutorials with practical industry tips and tricks.".
Chad Naeger, Student

Allan’s training DVDs:
Advanced Visual Effects
Advanced Visual Effects 2

More information >>

Fume FX - Hollywood Digital Pyrotechnics
with Allan McKay

Course starts 28 January 2008.

Registration: Closed

In this exciting new workshop, Hollywood Technical Director & Visual Effects Specialist Allan McKay will take students through the world of Hollywood Digital Pyrotechnics using FumeFX. With the new implementation of fluids into 3D Studio Max in the form of the plugin FumeFX – visual effects has never been so fun! However, tackling a subject like fluids to most can be quite tricky to grasp, let alone master as the learning curve can sometimes be quite steep. In this class, Allan will take the bull by the horns and jump right into creating high end visual effects and mentoring students in their creations of digital fire, explosions and other cool content.

Have a look at Allan's Showreel here.

Some of Allans more recent effects sequences have been for Superman Returns’, ‘Blade Trinity’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Scooby Doo 2’ and ‘Inspector Gadget’, just to name a few.


More information >>

Visual Effects for Film II
with Allan McKay

Course starts 27 August 2007.

Registration: Closed


Hollywood Technical Director & Visual Effects Specialist Allan McKay is repeating his fantastic VFX workshop with VFX for Film II. In this class, Allan will guide and mentor students in the use of 3ds Max plug-ins AfterBurn and PFlow tools to illustrate their full power in creating amazing visual effects. Allan will illustrate the techniques for producing incredible animation such as procedural tornados and making believable explosions, ground fog, clouds and more. Starting with simple examples, Allan works up to more complex effects that need to be seen to be believed.

Have a look at Allan's Showreel here.

Some of Allans more recent effects sequences have been for Superman Returns’, ‘Blade Trinity’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Scooby Doo 2’ and ‘Inspector Gadget’ , just to name a few.

Throughout this workshop, students will be jumping into both introductory subjects as well as more exciting and ambitious topics, such as explosions, twisters, and creature effects. Previous 3ds Max experience is required for this class, however, if students have some shader and particle background and have little or no experience with particle flow, they are still welcome to participate.

By workshop end, students should be very comfortable with effects, having developed a very good insight into the creation of some of todays’ bigger budget FX films.

“The complete and through introduction to VFX. Was great to have a industry expert sharing both great tutorials with practical industry tips and tricks.".
Chad Naeger, Student, Visual Effects for Film I

Allan’s training DVDs:
Advanced Visual Effects
Advanced Visual Effects 2

More information >>

Visual Effects for Film
with Allan McKay

Course starts 19 March 2007.

Registration: Closed


In this fantastic new workshop, Hollywood Technical Director & Visual Effects Specialist Allan McKay will guide and mentor students in the use of 3ds Max plug-ins AfterBurn and PFlow tools to illustrate their full power in creating amazing visual effects. Allan will illustrate the techniques for producing incredible animation such as procedural tornados and making believable explosions, ground fog, clouds and more. Starting with simple examples, Allan works up to more complex effects that need to be seen to be believed.

Have a look at Allan's Showreel here.

Some of Allans more recent effects sequences have been for Superman Returns’, ‘Blade Trinity’, ‘Exorcist: The Beginning’, ‘Paycheck’, ‘Scooby Doo 2’ and ‘Inspector Gadget’ , just to name a few.

Throughout this workshop, students will be jumping into both introductory subjects as well as more exciting and ambitious topics, such as explosions, twisters, and creature effects. Previous 3ds Max experience is required for this class, however, if students have some shader and particle background and have little or no experience with particle flow, they are still welcome to participate.

By workshop end, students should be very comfortable with effects, having developed a very good insight into the creation of some of todays’ bigger budget FX films.

Allan’s training DVDs:
Advanced Visual Effects
Advanced Visual Effects 2

More information >>

 
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