-Geometry in Houdini: points, primitives, verticies and detail
-Contexts (SOPs, DOPs, COPs, ROPs, CHOPs, LOPs, TOPs)
-UV Mapping, shading, modeling, lighting
-Attributes management
-Procedural modelling
-VEX vs VOPs
-Transfer, promotion, creation and management for attributes
-SOPs solver
-POPs basics
-POPs dynamics
-Rain system
-Magical effects

-Model prep for destruction
-Material fracture: wood, glass, concrete
-Creation and constraints management
-Creation and proxies management
-RBD dynamics
-Volume concepts (VDB/volume)
-Volumes management
-Intro to Pyro and Sparse
-Fire, smoke and explosions
-Intro to FLIP
-Long a small scale simulations

-Whitewater y meshing
-Shading and render for FLIP
-Intro to Vellum
-Hair simulations
-Cloth simulations
-CFX production techniques (problem solving)
-Intro to crowds
-Agents management, animation clips and layers
-Crowds simulation
-Triggers y ragdolls

Introduction to Animation
- What is animating?
- Observe
- Act, endow characters and objetcs with a soul.
-Interface and animation tools (Maya)

The 12 Principles of Animation
- Squash and stretch
- Anticipation
- Timing
- Arcs
- Appel
- Exaggeration
- Solid Pose
- Secondary action
- Slow-in and Slow-out
- Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
- Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Overlap
- Animation resources

The importance of the arcs
- Study of the arcs that describe the movement

PREPRODUCTION
Work Methodology
- How to frame a shot
- Storyboard

The pose
- Silhouette
- Line of action or Balance
- Weight
- Exaggeration
- Asymmetry
- Appeal

Procedure (Planning)
- How to face a shot or Storyboard
- Layout or Video Reference and Thumbnails
- Blocking
- Blocking-Plus
- Refine
- Polish

ACTING AND LIPSYNC
What is Acting?
- Introduction to Acting

Our Character
- Character personalities
- Where does it come from? Where is it going?
- Action motivations

Body Expression (the language not spoken)
- Non-verbal communication
- The Body does not lie
- Clarity and simplicity first of all

Study of an Audio track
- How to break it down and understand it

Facial expression
- Study of emotions
- The eyes
- Center of interest
- Behavior

REALISTIC ANIMATION
Anatomy study
-Human

Movement study (body mechanics)
- Understand dynamics and physics
- Study human movement
-Arcs in realistic animation
-Weights in the human body

CARTOON ANIMATION
-Arcs in cartoon animation
-Non-human bipeds
-Weights
- Different materials that the characters can have
-Elasticity of a cartoon character
-Exageration of a cartoon character

QUADRUPIDS
Study quadrupeds anatomy
- Felines, canines and equines

Movement study (body mechanics)
- Understand the dynamics and physics in animals
- Felines, canines and equines

INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO OR MORE CHARACTERS
-More than one Character
-Who has the ball?
-Focusing on the action

Entertainment
- How to make an entertaining shot

Taking animations one step further
- The key is in the details

Interaction between 2 or more characters
-Using everything we have learnt throughout the year to plan a scene between two or more characters:
-Who carries the action
-What is the motivation
-Where is he/she going?
-How does the secondary character support the acrtive character

HISTORY
-Matte painting and photo bashing applications

Exercise
Find 6 Matte painting works / Photo Bashing that inspire you and that you would like to achieve.

COMPOSITION
-Study of composition standards
-Study of classical works
-Practical application of composition
-Breaking the compositional norms

Exercise
Analyze the compositional scheme of 5 classic works.

COLOUR
-Theory of color
-The chromatic circle
-Basic colors
-Complementary colors
-Tertiary colors
-Color palette study
-The chromatic circle
-The triangle

Exercise
Extract the color scheme of 5 classic works.

PERSPECTIVE
-Perspective two vanishing points
-Perspective three vanishing points
-Narrative use of perspective

Exercise
Generate 6 Composition Sketches

PHOTOGRAPHY
-Reflex photography fundamentals.
-Shutter speed
-Diaphragm aperture.
-ISO sensitivity
-Use of lenses
-Lens aberrations and their application

Exercise photography
-20 textures
-10 animals
-10 insects
-20 plants
-10 Landscape
-20 objects
-20 Macro
-10 Portrait

PHOTOSHOP
-File management
-Essential tools; brush, eraser
-Brushes settings
-Brush creation
-Selection masks
-Cloning buffer
-Use of layers
-Blend modes
-Color settings
-Hue, brightness and saturation
-Filters
-Warp
-Color palette scheme

Exercises PHOTOBASH
-Anthropomorphic Robot
-Non anthropomorphic robot
-Action character
-Vehicles: asphalt and plains
-Vehicles: off road
-Vehicles: motorcycles
-Vehicles: aerodynamic aerial
-Vehicles: space
-Fantastic Natural Park by day.
-Night Fantastic Natural Park.
-Landscape with architectural ruins.
-Landscape with technological elements.
-Futuristic city extra radio.
-Futuristic city inside.
-Medieval city extra radio.
-Medieval city inside.

3D MAX
-Interface
-Use of geometries and primitives.
-Modifiers
-Splines
-Spline modeling
-Polygonal modeling
-Subdivision Modeling
-UVs
-Material Editor
-Lighting
-Render

ZBRUSH
-Basic concepts
-Organic sculpting

Exercise
Include in your Matte Painting elements created in 3D by yourself.

AFTER EFFECTS
-Introduction
-File management
-Use of layers
-Blend modes
-Properties Editor
-Timeline
-Stock Animation
-Masks
-Animated masks
-Filters
-Color settings
-Lighting settings
-Particle systems vs alpha footage
-Rotobrush
-3d layers
-Cameras and lighting
-Camera mapping techniques
-Tracking camera

Exercise
Bring 5 of your original Matte Paintings to life.

FUSION
-Node Methodology
-Loaders
-Basic compositions
-Matte effects-
-Atmospheric effects
-Color settings
-Camera tracking
-3D camera
-3D elements implementation
-Rendering

Exercise
Bring 5 of your original Matte Paintings to life.