About Our Company

VFXtraining is a result of many years of experience in both training and the working in all the aspects of production and post production. Our trainers are certified instuctors and certified pros. They teach at major Universities like NYU and SVA. And they all work in the industry producing many of the things that you see on televeision and on the silver screen.

Founded in 2001 by Yan Shvalb
VFXtraining has been providing training and consulting service to some of the biggest names in the industry including Apple, Viacom, Universal, Sony Music, New Video, all the major networks, and a variety of small studios and independant producers. We take pride not only in the relationships that we have with all the big names in the industry but in providing services to the individual. Thousands of people have taken either our small group classes or our custom one on one courses. VFXtraining is all about offering the kind of training that you would expect, Personal, Comprehensive, Valuable and Affordable.

About Yan Shvalb
Yan Shvalb developed his chops in the digital arts through commercial work, teaching and consulting. He studied art at Brooklyn College and took to it so readily he was teaching graduate-level courses in 3D animation, compositing and non-linear editing while still an undergrad. Through an internship at Sony he learned to do high-end 3D animation and compositing on Avid, Flame and SoftImage systems. Shvalb learned DVD authoring at Crush, one of the first such facilities in the country; there, he worked on titles for Criterion, pioneer of the now-standard “added features” on DVDs.

Shvalb moved to Michigan to run a DVD authoring facility at General TV Network, then to Florida to serve as chief technical officer and CIO at Inflight Online, where he earned patents in air-to-ground communications technologies and “crazy stuff for in-flight entertainment.” In 2001 he returned to New York to start his own company, VizualFX. He currently offers custom training, contract video services, DVD authoring and consulting for workflow design and other production and post-production processes.