This professional certificate course will provide candidates with how to apply the Principles of Animation in all aspects of Character Animation, Creating Animated Sequences from Original Concept to Final Film or Video Production while emphasising on storytelling, motion, performance, and expression through industry leading digital forms and tools.
Candidates will master complex character and creature techniques and learn how to create compelling scenes that captivate the audience.
3D Modeling, Sculpting, Dynamics and Animation
Character Sketching, 3D modeling Techniques, Digital Sculpting, Working with Digital Clay, Sculpting Techniques, maintaining polycounts, Vehicle modeling, Spline Modeling, Procedural Modeling, Storyboarding Techniques, Fluid Animations, Fluid Dynamics, Soft Bodies Simulation, Slow-Motion Simulations, and Multi Simulations, Advanced Particle simulations, Mesh handling and exporting. Physical Simulators
Tools: Autodesk Maya
Introduction to The Maya Interface, 3d Concepts: Different Coordinate System, Pivot Point, Advanced Polygonal Modelling, Advanced Nurbs Modelling, Subdivision Surfaces, Shading and textures, Advanced Lighting, Light Baking, GI, Camera Models, Final Gather, Fluids and particle systems, V-Ray and Arnold. Rigging.
Mudbox and Z-Brush
Brush, Material, Zbrush, Quickstart, UI, Hotkeys and Custom Menu, blocking out Organic Shapes, Refine Organic, blocking out Hard Surface, Refine Hard Surface, Complex Creation, Posing and Rendering.
Postproduction and VFX
Digital Video formats, Kinds/ Styles/ Types of Editing, Principles of Editing, Concept of Linear and Non-Linear Editing, Computer as a tool for Editing, Equipment and Software used in Non-Linear Editing, Understanding and identifying editing styles using documentaries, movies, ad films news telecast, etc., Color Correction, Chroma Removal, Tracking and Stabilizing, Effects, Particles, Motion Graphics
Adobe After Effects
Using 3D Features (2.5D), Advanced 3D, Photoshop and After Effects, Lesson 5: Particles, Paint Effects, Performing Color Correction, Advanced Effects, Advanced compositing
Adobe Premiere and Adobe Audition
Introduction to Audio and video, Bit Rates, file formats, technical jargon, Signals and noise, Encoding.
Tools: Adobe Premiere and Adobe Audition
Introduction, Bit Rates, Common Tasks and Functions, Special Effects, Audio Mixing Methods, Noise Reduction, Voice Adding, Chanel Mixing, Multi Band Effects, Video Resolution, Importing and exporting, Video and audio Effects
