Virtual Production Fellowship Wales

Course Details

Take part in a ground-breaking 9-month programme designed to elevate your skills in the world of virtual production. Delivered by the Final Pixel Academy in partnership with Fivefold Studios and Gorilla and fully funded by Media Cymru.

The Virtual Production Fellowship Wales programme has been designed and developed to teach the critical skills, techniques and technologies required to carve out an exciting new career path in this fast-evolving virtual production landscape.

It will provide Fellows with hands-on, experiential learning that will successfully and confidently develop the wide variety of creative, film making and technical skills necessary to navigate virtual production and real-time industries.

The programme will be split into four specialist areas, with the four cohorts working closely together throughout the programme:

• Producing Virtual Production (e.g. producers, line producers, script supervisors)
• Creating Virtual Art (e.g. 3D artists, technical artists, VFX, production designers, postproduction)
• Running a Volume (e.g. stage technicians, stage operators, VP supervisors)
• Filming in a Volume (e.g. DoPs, directors, art department)

With a thorough, blended delivery of course content, mentorship, specialist learning (creative and technical), independent study, industry-led masterclasses, and on-set, practical experience on an LED Volume, our Virtual Production Fellowship programme establishes a high benchmark for developing the virtual production skills needed in our industry. There are clear, achievable and measurable learning outcomes for each specialism, with proficiency and achievement level tracked and recognised within Final Pixel’s digital badges framework.

This experience will also provide a roadmap to carve out a successful career path in virtual production, as well as how to best utilise and diversify transferable skills across multiple sectors.

Integration with industry, studios, employers, and university partnerships, will create a lasting legacy and embed virtual production training into the local community where it is delivered.

Delivery Details

A.   How this Works

This programme is fully funded by Media Cymru, delivered in partnership with Final Pixel Academy and supported by Fivefold Studios and Gorilla.

This 9-month programme is exclusively for Welsh or Wales-based professionals currently seeking to elevate their skills in the cutting-edge world of virtual production, preferably with a background in Film, TV, Games, Animation, VFX, Post production, or Broadcast and Live Events.

Trainees may be eligible to claim travel and accommodation expenses to support attendance for in-person days.

There will be a maximum of 16 Fellow and 4 Student/Graduate training places for this programme.

B.   Who can apply?

This course is open to any Welsh or Wales-based screen sector professionals working – or seeking to work – in the media sector.

The Fellowship is for:

• Mid- and Senior-level professional crews across Film, TV, Games, Animation, VFX, Post production, or Broadcast and Live Events.
• Talent who work across a variety of creative and technical departments who are interested in skilling up and learning how to work within virtual production environments and apply those skills to projects
• There are 16 places for Fellows

The Student/Graduate Shadowing is for:

• Applicants are required to be either currently enrolled on a relevant university course (degree or postgraduate) or have graduated since 2024.
• There are 4 places available for students/recent graduates to shadow the Fellows.

We recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited and welcome applications from all backgrounds. This includes people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

C.    When and where

The application process will close on Friday 25th July

Shortlisted applicants will be notified and asked to provide a 3-minute pre-recorded interview to be submitted by Monday 4^th August.

We will let everyone know whether their application has been successful by Friday 8^th August.

We ask that you ensure you are able to attend all in-person training sessions and online masterclasses during the programme:

• 2  September 2025: Programme Kick-off / online masterclass
• 11 September 2025: On-set day 1 at FiveFold Studios
• 7 October 2025: Online Masterclass
• 4 November 2025: Online Masterclass
• 20 November 2025: Breakout day 1 at FiveFold Studios
• 4 December 2025: On-set day 2 at FiveFold Studios
• 9 December 2025: Online Masterclass
• 6 January 2026: Online Masterclass
• 3 February 2026: Online Masterclass
• 18 February 2026: Breakout day 2 at Gorilla Academy
• 18 and 19 March 2026: On-set days 3 & 4 at FiveFold Studios
• 7 April 2026: Online Final Review and Programme Wrap

There will also be online mentor sessions, tutor drop-ins, portfolio reviews and access to a comprehensive on demand online learning, throughout the programme.

View the indicative programme schedule

D.   Access and Accessibility

If you have any specific requirements that would make this application more accessible to you (such as advice, scribing or reading support) or would like this application in an alternative format (video or audio formats, audio narration, large font, plain text, or alternative language) please email academy@finalpixel.com

View application questions.

E.    Any questions?

If you have any questions, please contact: academy@finalpixel.com

 

Webinar

Join the Final Pixel Academy team for an information webinar on Thursday 10 July, 4pm. Register your interest.