Each day follows a structured learning approach:

• Morning Lecture – Focus on Unreal Engine’s technical aspects
• Technical Deep Dive – Theory behind realism and cinematic lighting
• Practical Art Exercise – Genre-based lighting challenge
• Nuke Workflow – Color grading and final compositing
• Studio Collaboration – Pipeline and best practices for production

Day 1: Color Workflows

Understanding color pipelines and how to use them across Unreal and Nuke / DaVinci

• How to set your scenes in Unreal and compositing to use a consistent color workflow ACES vs sRGB workflows

Day 2: Bringing a scene to life

This day focuses on understanding light properties inside Unreal Engine 5. A lighting artist must know how different light sources behave to control mood and realism. Quite often lighting artists are asked to sell the setting and movement of a shot only with lights.

• Physical Light vs. Game Engine Light: How UE5 interprets brightness and decay
• Typical shot scenarios; moving interiors, lighting, fire
• Animating lights using animation tracks

Day 3: Bringing a scene to life continued…

This day builds on the previous, jumping into a wide variety of lighting setups where we look at how animated lights help support the story and action

• Physical Light vs. Game Engine Light: How UE5 interprets brightness and decay
• Typical shot scenarios; moving interiors, lighting, fire
• Animating lights using animation tracks

Day 4: Cinematic Cameras

Cinematic lighting doesn’t just depend on light sources but also on how they are captured by the camera. A lead lighting director must align lighting with the camera’s focal length, lens distortion, and exposure to create consistent visual storytelling.

• Why focal length, depth of field, and motion blur matter are used to plus your shots
• Applying lens aesthetics to give your images a feel as if they were lensed in real life

Day 5: Materials

Achieving realism requires understanding how light interacts with materials. A lead lighting director must ensure that roughness, metalness, and subsurface scattering are properly set up to maintain visual credibility.

Lecture: PBR Workflow & Surface Perception

• How PBR workflows define material realism
• How reflections and translucency effect lighting

Technical Deep Dive

• Using Nanite & Virtual Texturing for hyper-real details
• Screen Space vs. Ray-Traced Reflections

Art Exercise: Neon Noir – Cyberpunk Rain Scene (Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Thriller)

• Unreal Engine Techniques: Emissive Materials, Reflection Captures
• DaVinci Resolve: Teal & magenta futuristic grading
• Studio Collaboration: Cloud-based dailies in Evercast
• Film Reference: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Days 6-10: Final Cinematic Scene

Over the last five days, artists have applied everything learned to develop a final cinematic sequence, ensuring they master:

• Lumen-based real-time lighting
• High-end cinematography with lensed camera techniques
• Volumetric atmosphere and optimized ray tracing
• ACES color grading for film-like contrast
• Finalizing shot lighting for a professional finish

The final project is reviewed in a studio setting, using Perforce, Unreal Sequencer, and Nuke / DaVin.

Final Outcome: A Studio-Ready Cinematic Lighting Portfolio

This boot camp is ideal for artists and professionals looking to elevate their fighting skills, whether for films, cinematics, or high-end visuals in Unreal Engine.

By the end of this course, you will have a specialized understanding of digital lighting tools, a strong artistic eye for color, contrast, and balance, and the ability to create compelling, cinematic images in Unreal Engine.

• Lighting in Unreal using Lumen and Path Tracer.
• A basic understanding of compositing software, such as Nuke, DaVinci Resolve, or similar programs, is recommended.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine, either through personal practice or by completing the 5-day “UE Fundamentals” course with Jan Adamus at ANOMALIA, is required.

All participants will get well-respected qualifications within the industry, demonstrating they’ve studied an industry-based course under expert supervision and have the practical, hands-on skills to continually grow as professional games and VFX studios are looking for.

Fees

Czech artists: 351€
All other artists: 1 950€

The fee covers participation in the course. It doesn’t cover accommodation, meals, and travel.

Approximate living costs during your stay in the Czech Republic:

• Accommodation at the venue: 25 EUR / night
• Breakfast at the hotel – 7 EUR
• Restaurant meal between 5 – 10 EUR
• Grocery in general – 50 EUR per person a week

Funding for Czech employees and freelancers

Czech Labour Office (Úřad práce) offers to cover up to 82% of the course fee within the so-called Digital Education Course.

Cancellation Policy

• In the case of cancellation 6 weeks or more before the course starting date, the whole fee (course fee, or course fee + accommodation) will be refunded minus 150€ admin fee.
• With less than 6 weeks‘ notice, 50% of the total course fee will be refunded.
• If cancellation occurs in the final 30 working days before the starting date, no refund will be given.
• However, we will consider transferring the fees to another course (conditional upon vacancies) but a 20% cancellation fee will be charged if this change will be made in less than 4 weeks before the course starting date.
• We reserve the right to cancel a course if fewer than 4 people are enrolled. In this case we can transfer your fees to any future course or refund the fees you have paid in full.
• Refunds will be paid within 2 weeks after receiving your full bank details.

Český Krumlov Study Centre

Accommodation in double or single rooms directly in the building of the training centre where the bootcamp takes place.  

• Price for double room: 750* CZK / person / day 
• Price of single room: 1 000* CZK / person / day 
• Breakfast: 175 CZK / person / day (optional) 

 How does it work?  

• After mutual confirmation, we will make a binding reservation for you in the training centre.  
• Payment is made directly to the host before the end of your stay.  

* Prices are valid for stays of 5 nights or more. For stays shorter than 5 nights, a higher price per unit will be charged.