Gottfried Hofmann writes:
As part of the Blender Institute training program 2018-19 a course on advanced FX in Blender 2.8 by Gottfried Hofmann is scheduled from 01.08.-03.08.2019.
The course features an in-depth introduction to shading with Cycles, smoke and fire simulations and how they interact with other systems and how to use the animation nodes addon to create your own tools for procedural modeling and animation.