I’ve taught visual effects for years.

In classrooms. On Discord. In DMs. Late-night calls. Across Moodle, Forums, Google Sites, YouTube, Vimeo, Notion, wherever teaching could live at the time.

I’ve taught juniors who were just starting, and artists who only needed one missing piece. Along the way, something kept bothering me. Not about the students. Not about their effort. Not even about the quality of the teaching.

It was the medium.

We act as if a school can teach you everything you’ll need. It can’t. The best any school, including Alpha Chromatica, can do is give you a starting vector. After that, life takes over. People get hired, burned out, laid off, promoted, sidelined, become parents, move countries, or step away entirely.

Learning doesn’t stop.
But access to knowledge quietly fractures.

That fracture is where most artists lose momentum.

The internet looks like abundance, but in practice it’s incoherent. Playlists don’t agree with each other. Tutorials assume missing steps. Links die. Channels get abandoned. I’m guilty of this too. Free-form VFX education collapses the moment real life intervenes, not because people don’t care, but because coherence takes time, and time usually isn’t compensated.

What artists actually need isn’t more content.

It’s a place to return to.

High-quality visual effects aren’t magic. They’re inputs, decisions, and cause-and-effect. When you can see someone connect a node, adjust a value, and explain why that choice was made, something important happens. The skill stops feeling distant. It becomes achievable.

Show doesn’t inspire.
Show demystifies.

Show, don’t tell.
That’s the logic behind HeyGanz.

Not a course you “finish.”
Not a playlist you binge.

A living reference. An appendix to your career. A place where you can find one exact thing quickly, understand how it works, and move on with your shot. And just as importantly, a place that’s still there if you leave the industry for a year and come back needing to remember how to think again.

VFX is too niche, and the prerequisites are too high, for learning to be disposable. We don’t get to treat knowledge like entertainment. If you lose momentum, the cost is real. Starting over shouldn’t be the penalty for stepping away.

HeyGanz is built for continuity.

In time, it becomes something else too, a way for former students to feed real production knowledge back into the system. What you pick up at one studio shouldn’t vanish when you move on. It should accumulate. Quietly. Usefully. Without ceremony.

I didn’t build this because there wasn’t enough teaching in the world.

I am building it because what was missing wasn’t knowledge.

It was a place for our collective knowledge to live.

HeyGanz.com

P.S. HeyGanz is already live, with active subscribers.