Animax | Workshop on 3D Animation

This workshop is specially dedicated to those who dream to work in an environment full of colour and imagination and want their careers in a happening animation industry It also covers an overview of the 3D computer animation industry, Basic modeling techniques, Creation of materials & Texture maps, Basic lighting techniques, Basic camera manipulation, Hierarchy linking, Basic key framing techniques, Rendering and Basic designing techniques in animated movies. After the workshop participants will come up with a short 3D movie designed by them.

Topics to be covered in Workshop

Interactive session

• About animation
• About MAYA
• Application of MAYA

 GUI

• Clearing the user interface
• Introduction of different palettes

 Creating Primitive shapes

• Polygon Primitives
• Nurbs Primitives
• Subdiv Primitives

Learning about Different modes of an object

• Vertex mode
• Edge Mode
• Face Mode
• Object Mode
• Learning about Mesh Flow

 Familiarizing Tool Palette

• Selection & Move tool
• Rotate tool
• Scale tool
• Implimitation of these tools with shortcuts

 Modeling

• Learning the difference between Plane Modeling and Box Modeling
• Go through the 'Edit Mesh' menu
• Creating Interiors
• Learning to place Blueprints for higher modeling

 Texturing

• Hyper shade Palette
• Unwrap UV

 Lighting

• Learning about different lights
• Simple lighting
• Three point lighting

 Creating Camera

• Learning to use camera for production level
• Learning about camera settings

 Simple rendering

• How to render image with different sizes

 Rigging

• How to place bones
• How to assign controllers to bones
• Explaining the use of 'Advance Biped'

Time Line & Animation

• Learning about Frames & Frame rate
• Explaining what is animation with the help of persistence of vision
• Key frame animation
• frame by frame animation
• Camera Animation
• Object Animation

 Character Animation

• Explaining Principles of Character Animation
• Creating Simple Walk

Project Maintenance

• How to create new Project & work in it

 Advance Rendering

• Batch Rendering

Duration: The duration of this workshop will be two consecutive days, with eight hour session each day in a total of sixteen hours properly divided into theory and hands on sessions.

Certification Policy:

• Certificate of Participation for all the workshop participants.
• At the end of this workshop, a small competition will be organized among the participating students and winners will be awarded with a 'Certificate of Excellence'.
• Certificate of Coordination for the coordinators of the campus workshops.

Eligibility: There are no prerequisites. Anyone interested, can join this workshop.