Class FAQ

PUATC stands for Premier Unreal Authorized Training Center.  Epic has given this status to a handful of schools that meet their exacting standards for teaching Unreal Engine and Virtual Production, and has outstanding instructors with years of film industry experience. CG Pro is proud to be one of 5 Premier Authorized Training Centers in the world, and the only one in North America. Also, CG Pro is the only US based school offering fully live remote classes.

Why Study with Us?

CG Pro’s classes are taught 100% live online by one or more instructors, many Unreal Authorized (we have six total at the school!), along with industry veteran creative tech artists. In addition to the live online training, you will have access to or experience: 

• Ongoing support in the CG Pro private community group from the class instructors and teaching assistants.

• Regularly scheduled office hours/labs where you can ask your questions.

• Supplementary training with live industry guests.

• Course completion certificates and/or badges.

• Links to CG Pro class recordings for the current class for review post-live session.

• Long-term access to recordings post-course.

• Network and relationship building with other participants, including instructors.

• Learning about the latest stable version of released software.

The CG Pro Difference:

Before you enroll in another course, ask yourself this question. Will you be learning from generic pre-recorded videos, or will you be learning live in a supportive community setting?

CG Pro has the edge over other schools, as we carry the torch of the Unreal Fellowship experience with with our live personalized training.

Class sizes vary, with advanced classes typically having fewer participants.  We gear the number of teaching assistants and mentors who offer individual and small group tutoring, and the number of in-class instructors, to the size of each cohort.

Recommended Hardware

• Desktop or Laptop: Laptops are portable but much less power and harder to do in camera VFX. Desktops are the best solution for Virtual Production.
• Operating Systems:  While you can use a Mac and Linux it is recommended to use a PC. If on a Mac Bootcamp will make more things work, but some additional problems can arise too.
• Hard Drive: Ideally NVMe M.2 fast SSD. Especially needed to take advantage of Nanite in Unreal 5. Have your OS and programs installed to it. Also ideally your Unreal projects, especially if Nanite. 2gb recommended min. Ideally 4gb
• CPU: Intel i9 or AMD (Ryzen or my preference Threadripper)
• RAM: 32gb min. 64gb recommended for UE5. I like 128gb+
• Graphics Card:  NVidia is king as of writing this, although AMD Ryzen cards work. Just try to use a more current card from within the last year. NVidia 20**+ series to be able to do real time Ray Tracing. Ideally a 3090, but these can be hard to find
• Puget Systems make great pre-built machines with a very reasonable turnaround time. We have a special discount for our students. Please inquire for details as you can access this as a student.

Struggling to get a machine in time?

• Consider a cloud virtual workstation!
  • AWS
    • AWS Workstation info 

    • AWS Marketplace easy link

    • AWS Activate Look into free credit
  • Azure
    • https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/virtual-workstation-cloud/
    • Look into free credit: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

There are no pre-requisites needed, however we do recommend equivalent experience for more advanced courses as there is assumed a working knowledge of Unreal going in greater depth in specific areas of interest.

• Cancellation at least 10 days before the scheduled start date: 100% tuition refund.
• Withdrawal before the first day of instruction: 90% tuition refund
• Withdrawal before the second day of instruction: 50% tuition refund
• Thereafter, no refunds are due or payable.
• Students may with a valid reason, (for example, course is too advanced or too easy, work schedule changed), with the approval of school officials, after the first day of instruction but before the second, join a different class at the same tuition level instead of continuing with the enrolled class.  

Yes we do. We understand the financial investment may be difficult for some and being that we are dedicated to your learning.  For your convenience you can use Klarna and Afterpay directly from the checkout page.  If these options do not work in your situation, please schedule a call to find out more.