Course overview
This immersive industry based course, delivered on-site at Rising Sun Pictures, will build upon students’ existing visual effects knowledge, and familiarises students with professional practice in the visual effects industry, providing the theory, skills, and techniques to produce industry-standard 3D animations. In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of a professional animation pipeline. In addition, students will learn how to use scene description to build a scene; key animation toolsets and layers; and they will build familiarity with Shotgun. Students will learn how to analyse video references for their animation work; and they will develop the required skills for animating mechanical assets and professionally producing vehicle and prop animation.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically analyse and implement industry-standard 3D animation production practices
- Apply key tools and techniques within industry standard software to generate professional quality, photorealistic asset animations
- Demonstrate autonomy and adaptability in planning and managing a program of work to meet a production brief and its deadline through iterative project submission and review
- Demonstrate direction within a simulated team environment and produce work that meets industry-standard quality assurance and review processes