Virtual Production: Underwater Scene Look Dev & FX | Masterclass with Bogdan Amidzic | AVENUE

How do you create believable underwater environments for film and visual effects? In this AVENUE Masterclass, Bogdan Amidzic explores the workflows behind developing realistic underwater scenes, drawing on more than a decade of experience at Crater Studio. Using real production examples, he demonstrates how the studio has evolved its approach to look development, rendering and visual effects while delivering feature film projects centred around underwater environments. The session takes viewers through the complete production pipeline, including scene layout, environment population, character setup, crowd instancing, rendering configuration, volumetric lighting, caustics, particles, underwater gases, FX elements and compositing techniques. Whether you're interested in look development, visual effects or production workflows, this masterclass provides valuable insight into building convincing underwater worlds for film and virtual production. About Bogdan Amidzic Bogdan Amidzic is a Visual Effects Supervisor at ‪@craterstudios_official‬, where he has spent more than a decade developing visual effects pipelines for feature films and high-end productions. His expertise spans look development, rendering, compositing and complex visual effects workflows, with particular experience creating realistic underwater environments and simulations. Through his work, Bogdan combines technical innovation with practical production experience to deliver high-quality visual effects across a wide range of projects. About AVENUE This masterclass is part of AVENUE, a European Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) co-funded by the European Union. AVENUE brings together education, research and industry partners to strengthen vocational excellence across Europe's creative visual industries. Through free learning resources, professional training, research and international collaboration, AVENUE supports lifelong learning across: Animation Games Virtual Production Extended Reality (XR) Visual Storytelling Discover more free learning resources, courses and opportunities: 🌐 https://www.avenuecove.eu