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Ryan H.

Visual Effects Artist | Graphic Designer | Photographer

Visual Effects Artist | Graphic Designer | Photographer

$40/hour

5.0 (101 ratings)

  • 208 hours tutoring

About Ryan

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Hello! My name is Ryan, and I am currently pursuing a B.F.A. in Visual Effects and Technical Direction at the Savannah College of Art and Design. As a current student, I know how important an engaging tutor really is!

In addition to furthering my own education, I have been a freelance designer and photographer for over 6 years! My skillset primarily lies in the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite with a focus on motion graphics, visual effects, and photo editing. I also have experience with print...

Hello! My name is Ryan, and I am currently pursuing a B.F.A. in Visual Effects and Technical Direction at the Savannah College of Art and Design. As a current student, I know how important an engaging tutor really is!

In addition to furthering my own education, I have been a freelance designer and photographer for over 6 years! My skillset primarily lies in the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite with a focus on motion graphics, visual effects, and photo editing. I also have experience with print layout and logo design as well. I use Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, Media Encoder, and Premier Pro on a daily basis.

Furthermore, I have experience with 3D animation and rendering in Autodesk Maya and Houdini. I also have a background compositing in NukeX as well.

As a part of my lessons, I choose to cover the basics of good design as well as the technical aspects of the software. It is important to incorporate elements such as composition, balance and movement into your toolkit so that you can utilize your software skills to their full potential!

I have been a professional photographer for weddings, family photos, and aspiring social media influencers. I have focused mostly on the post-shoot process including clean-up, color correction, compositing and occasionally typography.

As for graphic design, I have mostly been a freelancer for logo and brand design. Additionally, for the past 5 years, I have worked for local churches looking to incorporate motion graphics and video production into their weekly services.

I believe art and design is constantly evolving, and as artists we need to embrace that change. It can be difficult to keep up with the latest technology and software, but together we can refine your digital design skillset according to your individual goals!

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Education

BFA Savannah College of Art and Design
Visual Effects and Technical Direction

Policies

  • Hourly Rate: $40
  • Rate details: Discounts available for current students of any grade! Please reach out if interested.
  • Lesson cancellation: 12 hours notice required

  • No background check

  • Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

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Subjects

Art

Photography,

Photography

I have shot for weddings, family photos, and aspiring social media influencers. I often choose to shoot in natural light rather than a studio atmosphere, despite the additional challenges of balancing shutter speed, ISO, and aperture size to prefect image exposure. Occasionally, I will use a shoe-mount flash, or a reflector to even out skin tones for portraits. When shooting landscapes however, I tend to use a tripod and neutral density filter on a wider angle lens (14-35mm). I only shoot in RAW 16 bit image formats to maximize editing freedom in post. My primary interest lies in editing photos in Lightroom or Photoshop. This may include color correction in Adobe Camera Raw, or composting and clean up (such as frequency separation) within the main software. As a result of shooting in natural light, shadows and highlights are often inconsistent, and must be fixed in post using advanced editing techniques as well.
Video Production,

Video Production

Video production is an essential part of the VFX pipeline. I have had 2 years of experience as a visual effects supervisor on set, and over 5 years of experience editing and shooting video myself. My expertise lies in Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects, although I have some compositing experience with The Foundry's NukeX as well. I currently composite 3D assets and renders into live action footage using these programs. From pre-production to post-production, I have experience shooting, lighting (both on-set and re-lighting using camera tracking and geometry projection in post), importing, editing, and exporting movies and short film projects.
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Computer

Animation,

Animation

I have had 5+ years of animation experience using Adobe After Effects, creating motion graphics and lyric videos primarily for local church services. I have also completed some freelance logo animations for startup companies as well. Additionally, I have worked on numerous 3D animation projects using Autodesk Maya, including a student produced Dunkin Donuts commercial. Some of these projects required character rigging, parenting, and all of them required keyframe graph editor manipulation. I am mostly skilled at keyframe animation, all though I am proficient in stop motion and frame-by-frame animation.
Photography,

Photography

I have shot for weddings, family photos, and aspiring social media influencers. I often choose to shoot in natural light rather than a studio atmosphere, despite the additional challenges of balancing shutter speed, ISO, and aperture size to prefect image exposure. Occasionally, I will use a shoe-mount flash, or a reflector to even out skin tones for portraits. When shooting landscapes however, I tend to use a tripod and neutral density filter on a wider angle lens (14-35mm). I only shoot in RAW 16 bit image formats to maximize editing freedom in post. My primary interest lies in editing photos in Lightroom or Photoshop. This may include color correction in Adobe Camera Raw, or composting and clean up (such as frequency separation) within the main software. As a result of shooting in natural light, shadows and highlights are often inconsistent, and must be fixed in post using advanced editing techniques as well.
Video Production,

Video Production

Video production is an essential part of the VFX pipeline. I have had 2 years of experience as a visual effects supervisor on set, and over 5 years of experience editing and shooting video myself. My expertise lies in Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects, although I have some compositing experience with The Foundry's NukeX as well. I currently composite 3D assets and renders into live action footage using these programs. From pre-production to post-production, I have experience shooting, lighting (both on-set and re-lighting using camera tracking and geometry projection in post), importing, editing, and exporting movies and short film projects.
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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Best tutor ever.

Seriously. He is the best tutor ever. My son loves his time with Ryan. He learns so much. Ryan doesn’t say,”click here, click here“. He explains why you click here and how he knows. Plus he makes it fun

Brayden, 15 lessons with Ryan

Great tutor!!

Such a great tutor! Very very patient and explains everything as he’s going through! I’ve learnt so much in my first session with him! Would definitely recommend!

Angela, 3 lessons with Ryan

Great instructor!

I had a pretty complex (in my opinion) problem making an enormous project. I’m a very basic photoshop user but Ryan sorted it out within the time we had! Easy to follow along with and clearly knew what he was doing!

Brett, 1 lesson with Ryan

After Effects Tutor

Taught a session on Adobe After Effects. Clear. Patient. Knowledgeable. Very happy with what I learned. I thereafter requested follow-up sessions. ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

Max, 5 lessons with Ryan

great teacher

Ryan is such a great teacher! Explains everything so clearly and in a way that is so easy for me to understand having zero experience. I have learned so much so far!

Amy, 10 lessons with Ryan

Great and patient Tutor

My son just started learning photoshop and really enjoyed Ryan’s lesson. He was thorough and answered all of his questions in detail. We will definitely be doing another lesson!

Elizabeth, 1 lesson with Ryan

Excellent teacher

Although I've never worked with Adobe After Effects before. Ryan was able to get me going very quickly. He's very knowledgeable, patient. and easy to work with.

Kevin, 3 lessons with Ryan

Amazing.10/10 Best tutoring experience I have had.

He was knowledgeable about the software, patient and knew how to teach. He showed me how to do everything on his screen, then walked me through doing it on mine. It was really fun. I can't wait for the next lesson.

Terra, 2 lessons with Ryan

He’s great to work with

He is teaching me how to use photoshop. He is an excellent teacher. Great to work with and always shows me something new and interesting. I highly recommend him.

Debra, 6 lessons with Ryan

Knowledgeable and patient tutor!

Ryan H. really knows his stuff and how to explain it! He taught me how to apply the principles of animation in After Effects. A great first lesson for a beginner like me.

Angela, 8 lessons with Ryan
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