Zero Density has recently launched an online learning platform for creators of real-time broadcast graphics and virtual sets, ‘Zero Density Academy’. Featuring more than 50 in-depth video lessons, Zero Density Academy enables broadcasters to learn skills and earn a certification for free.

Zero Density Academy is based on feedback from industry and educational partners. It offers structured self-paced micro-learning content. Anyone can log in and search for a video lesson on anything including real-time graphics operations, production controls, creative workflows, green screen, AR compositing and more. They can also follow pre-defined Reality courses that cover skills for key career tracks, including: Operator, Generalist, Content Specialist, Technician, Virtual Production Specialist, and Broadcast Designer.

In order to represent real-life scenarios, each course on the Zero Density Academy has been created using Zero Density’s own in-house R&D studio. Once learners pass all the courses on the certification path, they will receive a final assignment that will be submitted to Zero Density’s product experts.

“When we released our Reality software, we were the first to make high-end compositing happen in real-time, live on broadcast,” says Faraz Qayyum, Head of Academy at Zero Density. “We’ve since helped clients like Fox Sports, The Weather Channel, and Warner Media to enhance their virtual studio production workflows with Reality ecosystem which enables them to deliver photorealistic immersive experiences to their global audience. We then made Reality freely available on our website, where it’s been downloaded tens of thousands of times. Now, we are taking the next step: sharing all we know about creating immersive broadcast graphics by launching Zero Density Academy.”