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

- Introduction to our Masters and how it operates
- Applied theory in Character Creation
- Psychological profile of our characters
- Z Brush: Initiation - practice
- Sculpture: Cranium
- Anatomy: Proportions of the human body.
- Drawing: Proportions and fitting.
- Anatomy: El torso humano
- Z brush: Work methodology in phases.
- Drawing: The Human Torso
- Sculpture: The Human Torso
- Anatomy: Upper extremities
- Z brush: optimización y recursos de hardware
- Drawing: Upper extremities
- Sculpture: Upper extremities
- 1st deadline:Realistic character proposal. Homework from prior week.
- Anatomy: Hands
- Z brush: Scultpting techniques
- Drawing: Hands
- Sculpture: Hands
- 2nd deadline: 2nd and last deadline for realistic character. Homework from prior week.
- Anatomy: Hands
- Z brush: Blocking zspheres and other techniques
- Drawing: Hands
- Sculpture: Hands
- Anatomy: lower extremities
- Z brush: Sculpting techniques
- Drawing: lower extremities
- Sculpture: lower extremities
- Anatomy: Feet
- Z brush: projection, layers and morphs
- Drawing: Feet
- Sculpture: Feet
- Anatomy: The feminine torso
- Z brush: sculpting techniques, projection, layers and morphs
- Drawing: The feminine torso
- Sculpture: The feminine torso
- Anatomy: The human head
- Z brush: Retopology tool
- Drawing: The human head
- Sculpture: The human head
- Anatomy: Portraits and reasonable resemblances
- Z brush: UV creation
- Drawing: Portraits and reasonable resemblances
- Sculpture: Portraits and reasonable resemblances
- Theory : techniques for hair
- Z brush: Cutaneous and subcutaneous details; pores, imperfections, vains and scars
- Marvelous designer: concepts
- Sculpture: Sculpture of hair and tuft
- Teoría: Textiles and clothes
- Z brush: Baking techniques
- Z brush: Extracting techniques and Sculpting techniques for hair and fibermesh
- Marvelous designer: Patterns ans simulations
- Sculpture: Sculpting textiles

-Applied theory for creating Cartoon characters
- Substance Painter: Initiation
- Sculpture: Blocking
- Marvelous designer: Personalizing our models
- Applied theory for creating Cartoon characters, visual language
- Sculpture: Blocking
- Marvelous designer: Garments and morphs
- Polygonal Modeling 3d Max
- Low Polygon Concepts
- Retopology in 3D Max
- Retopology in Maya
- Retopology in Blender
- UV Unwrapping in 3D Max
- Substance Painter: Baking and texturing techniques
- Hard surface polygonal Modelling
- Modelling props
- Modelling vehicules
- Substance Painter: Texturing techiques
- Basic setup and character poses
- Substance Painter: Baking and texturing techniques
- Hard surface polygonal Modelling
- Modelling props
- Modelling vehicules
- Substance Painter: Hand painted texturing techniques for characters
- Marmoset viewer: Iniciation
- Implementing Marmoset Viewer
- Modelling enviroments
- Procedural modelling
- Modelling props for enviroments
- Trees, rocks and ruins

- Baking techniques with Xnormal
- Hard surface polygonal Modelling
-Modelling props
- Modelling vehicules
- Substance Painter: Hand painted texturing techniques for props
- Marmoset Viewer lighting
- Marmoset Viewer Baking and animation
- Marmoset Render
- Modelling enviroments
- Procedural modelling
- Marmoset Viewer Baking and animation
- Marmoset Render
- Feedback on final projects
- Advise and approach for personal reel
- Post production in Photoshop and After effects
- Final deadline

CONCEPTS
- Presentation
- Character Anatomy
- Nodes
- Preparation and planning

TRANSFORMATION / DEFORMATION
- Transformation
- Controls
- Constraints
- Joints
- Skinning

PROPS
- Rigging Props

BIPED CHARACTERS
- Planning
- Skeleton
- Skinning
- Skinning Clothes and Accessories
- Skin Helper

SPINE
- Hierarchy
- Spine
- Head

ARM
- Arm IK/FK Blend
- Arm Controls
- Fingers LEG
- Leg IK/FK Blend
- Leg Controls
- Foot
– Reverse Foot

STRETCH
- Stretch Concept
- Arm Stretch
- Stretch Attributes
- Spine stretch

BLENDSHAPES
- Blendshape and mirroring techniques
- Blendshape targets
- Target Mirroring

FACIAL CONTROLS
- Facial Controls
- Facial Control Mirroring

FACIAL RIG
- Nose, ears, hair
- Eyes
- Mouth
- Eyebrows
- Advanced Facial Rig (tweaks)
- Head Deformer

ADVANCED CHARACTER MODULE
- Extra skinning
- Follow (isolate)
- Corrective Morphs
- Ribbons

STRUCTURES IN RIGGING
- Quadrupeds
- Characters with wings

FINALIZING
- Finalizing and organization
- Cleaning the Rig
- Final Revision
- Tips and commonly used tools

RIGGING FOR GAMES
- Creating Rigs for Games
- Cloth Simulation
- Implementing in Unity
- Implementing in Unreal Engine
- Technical Specifications

MEL FOR MAYA
- Introduction to MEL

MEL SCRIPTING
- Creating scripts with MEL

PYTHON FOR MAYA
- Introduction to Python for Maya
- Variables
- Conditionals
- Loops
- Dictionaries
- Funtions
- Classes
- UI

PYTHON SCRIPTING
- Creating scripts with Python I
-Creating scripts with Python II

RIG WORKSHOP
- Exercises