Whilst there’s plenty of training available at full price, finding subsidised courses and programmes for employees in Post-production and VFX is hard going these days.
Not since 2004 in the early days of UK Post (as we were then called) has there been significant public subsidy avaialable for training in broadcast post. Back then some of our members, with support from UK Post created the “First Post” training scheme to move runners up into their first operational roles. This programme was funded by the European Social Fund and gave training to over 120 new entrants.
Whilst VFX received some DCMS funding a few years ago, designed to underpin the skills demand created by the tax credits, broadcast post-production has not been well served in this respect for years and UK Screen Alliance has been lobbying to redress this.
UK Screen Alliance liaises with the main skills body for our industry, ScreenSkills, to direct funding into initiatives relevant to post-production and VFX. We also liaise with some of the BFI Skills Clusters, especially the Metro London Skills Cluster, to direct National Lottery funding to post and VFX. In 2025/26, we commissioned the following training…
- Client Relationships and Negotiation Skills for Post & VFX
- Leadership of Neurodiverse Teams in VFX and Post
- Cinematography for VFX Artists
- Introduction to Comfy UI
Footnote: As part of the Creative Sector Deal in 2019, DCMS provided funds for the development of more apprenticeship standards. UK Screen Alliance working with ScreenSkills directed this funding to create 3 new VFX apprenticeship standards, a post production engineering standard, an audio engineer standard (in conjunction with UK Music) and a camera technician apprenticeship standard.
