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 be introduced to the realistic animation of real and imagined creatures. Students will gather the required reference data and deepen their analytical skills to use the data collected to create an original creature animation. Students will familiarise themselves with a variety of creatures' rigs and motion and develop the skills necessary to create industry standard creature animations.
- Intro to Creature Animation
- Flight Mechanics & Creature Movement
- Creature Weight Shifting
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 creature 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