Specialization in 3D Digital Animation Course

The “Specialization in 3D Digital Animation” onlinejob oriented course provides a thorough understanding of fundamentals of 3D Production pipeline, process of 3D Modelling, Texturing & Shading techniques in look development in 3D objects, evaluating lighting scenarios from real world to digital environments. Ability to articulate and can perform rigging mechanisms to any type of objects and making ready for movements and to perform animation process to believable motion and finally to exemplify different types of effects to add realism to a scene / shot.

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  1. Duration of the program: 3 Months
  2. Attendance – 80% COMPULSARY
  3. Examination pattern – 50 % written, 50 % assignment submission and evaluation.
  4. Minimum for pass – 50%
  5. Number of attempts - 2
Months Weeks Topics covered Duration in Hrs (60)
Month 1 Week 1 Fundamentals of 3D 5
Week 2 Fundamentals of 3D 5
Week 3 Modeling& Unwrapping 5
Week 4 Interface of 3D Software 5
Month 2 Week 1 Interface of 3D Software 5
Week 2 Shaders & Textures 5
Week 3 Lighting & Rendering 5
Week 4 Lighting & Rendering 5
Month 3 Week 1 Rigging 5
Week 2 Animation 5
Week 3 Animation 5
Week 4 Dynamics / FX 5

Total No. of Sessions – 60
30 Theory Sessions + 30 Practical Sessions

Basics of 3D pipeline, explanation of pre-production, production, post-production, history of animation, types of animation, how animation industry evaluation over the century, brief about studios in India & other countries, difference between 2Dimension & 3Dimension, pipeline explanation from 2D to 3D, 3D to VFX, 3D to Games, animation usages in 3D industry ex: Movies, Games, Architecture etc., showcasing 3D demo reels from different industry. Introduction to 3D Software installation, types of other 3D, sculpting, texturing, painting, & rendering software packages, Brief explanation about employment opportunity in 3D.

Explanation of User Interface & menu’s, viewport navigation controls, different types of viewports, description about primitives, explanation of tool box, project folder settings, new, save & open files, layers, selection criteria, snaps, pivots / gizmo, groups, link / parent, duplicates, undo & redo. Briefing about curves / splines, discussing about polygon & curve components with usages, explanation of different types of curves.

Briefing about tools like extrude, bevel, smooth, loop tool, multi-cut, bridge, Booleans mirror, merge, combine etc., explanation about triangles, quads &ngons, exploring curve tools like loft, revolve, extrude, add points tool, attach curve, detach curve, adding points etc., soft selection tool usages, description about sculpting tools in 3D application. Introduction to UV’s, different types of UV mapping like planer / box, spherical, cylindrical, automatic etc., briefing about Texel density, explanation of tools like unfold, optimize, layout, move & sew stitches, integration between 3D to 2D application about UV maps.

Explanation about hypershade / material window, explanation about different types of shaders like lambert, blinn, phong, anisotropic etc., briefing about commonly used maps like diffuse / color map, specularity, normal / bump map, roughness, reflection, refraction, sub surface scattering, transparent / opacity, height / displacement. Lecturing about textures like fabric, wood, marbles, chrome, glass, velvet, wax etc., showcasing about painting software usages for 3D pipeline, explanation of alphas, brushes, masking, generators, filters, materials etc.,

Explanation of concepts of lights, difference between direct and indirect lighting, briefing about real and reel world light difference, different type of lights is directional, omni / point, spot & area lights, showcasing about emissive & photometric lights, lecturing about environment / HDRI lighting pipeline, explanation about render settings, introduction about camera and its angle with properties like shutter, F-stop, exposure, depth of field, bokeh etc., concept explanation about three point lighting, light rig set-up. Explanation of photorealistic render engine in 3D like Arnold, Cycles, Eevee, V-ray etc., showcasing about render engine shaders and materials, briefing about render passes for compositing.

Introduction to joint / bone set up, explanation of tools are insert, mirror, orient, connect joints, briefing about IK handle connections, introduction to deformers, showcasing deform tools like blend shape, cluster, wrap, jiggle, lattice, nonlinear tools, explaining about different types of skin / binding methods from joints to object, describing about skin weights & interactive bind skin, importance of parent, group, constraints.

Different types of animation in 3D application, explanation of frames per second (24 / 25 / 30) set key / key frame animation workflow, briefing about timeline and range slider, explanation of graph editor to tweak animation, showcasing tangent types like linear, spline, stepped, flat etc., explaining about play bast animation / exporting sequence of animation. Briefing about traditional 12 animation principles, basic exercises on ball bouncing, walk, run, jump, weight lift along with this explanation about body mechanics. Briefing about lip sync and facial expressions.

Introduction to particle systems, briefing about different types of emitters, colliders, particle shapes, instance / duplicates, describing about different types of fields like air, vortex, turbulence, gravity etc., explanation about fluid simulation, showcasing fire, water, smoke, dust exercises, briefing about cloth simulation with colliders, introduction to hair system, explanation of soft and rigid bodies.

Course Outcome

  1. Gets familiar with fundamentals of 3D Production pipeline
  2. Able to understand the process of 3D Modelling
  3. Apply texturing & shading techniques in look and development in 3D objects
  4. Evaluate lighting scenarios from real world to digital environments
  5. Articulate and can perform rigging mechanisms to any type of objects and making ready for movements
  6. Able to perform animation process to believable motion
  7. Exemplify different types of effects to add realism to your scene / shot

References

  1. Danan Thilkanathan, 3D Modeling for Beginners: Learn Everything You Need to Know About 3D Modeling, 2016.
  2. Chris Legaspi, Anatomy for 3D Artists, 3dtotal Publishing, 2015.
  3. Allan Brito, Blender Quick Start Guide, Packt Publishing, 2018.
  4. Morr Meroz, Animation for Beginners: Getting Started with Animation Filmmaking, Bloop animation studios, 2021.
  5. Lee Lanier, Aesthetic 3D Lighting: History, Theory & Application, A Focal Press Book Publishing, 2018.

Criteria to enrol to this course

  1. Interest in designing
  2. Basic Computer Skills
  3. Creativity

Job opportunities after the completion of the course, as

  • Graphic Designer
  • 2D Animator
  • 3D Animator
  • 3D Modeller
  • Texturing artist
  • Lighting artist
  • Rigging Artist
  • FX Artist
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