TECHNICAL INFORMATION I
- CODECS
- 8-16-32 Bits
- Containers
- Banding
- Curves
- Digital Cameras vs Analog Movie Cameras
- Digital Film Cameras vs DSLR
- Optical Differences in Photos, Video and Cinema
- Circular Optics vs Anamorphic Optics (bokeh, flare)
- Differences between Linear sensors vs Log vs Raw
- Using Blackmagic
- DaVinci Resolve for Grading

FILM ANALYSIS
- The World of Cinema
- Brief History of Cinema
- Reading the Interpretation of a Script
- Screenplay Exhibition
- Work with Actors
- Storytelling
- Frame by Frame Analysis
- Making Storyboards
- Color and light, sound, uses and forms.
- Actors and Technical Team

TECHNICAL INFORMATION II
- Shooting a Long Take
- Making a Story Board
- Lighting, types and lighting layouts
- Reading of Script and scope of the Project
- Production needs, optics, chromas, movements.
- First economic Budget, what to include or discard

PLANNING
- Shooting Static Shots
- Shooting Moving Shots
- Axes, basic rules of the Directing
- Relationship of the SCRIPT with the Assistant Director
- Technical Script and StoryBoard

PRE-PRODUCTION
- Production design
- Final Budget of a Short Film
- Creation of Concepts
- Creation of the Storyboard in 2D and 3D
- Offline shooting
- Using Adobe After Effects for 2D Animatics
- Preparation of a Management Dossier
- How to do Casting. Techniques and recommendations.
- Lenses and Objectives for the Director, Storytelling and point of view.

DIRECTING ACTORS I
- Directing actors
- Action Scene
- Suspense Scene
- Horror Scene
- Comedy Scene

FX ESSENTIALS II
- Offline shooting - Rotoscopy
- Chroma Key
- Matte Painting
- 3D Animation
- Unreal Engine
- Using Adobe Premiere for 2D Animatics

DIRECTING ACTORS II
- Directing Actors II
- Practice shooting
- FX Supervision for Directors
- Assembly, Mixing and Grading for Directors

PRODUCTION I
- Final shoot

MOCAP
- Visit the MOCAP Study
- Motion Capture
- Visit the Locations
- Short Film Thematic Production Team
- Final shooting

PRODUCTION II & POSTRODUCTION I
- Final shooting
- PostProduction and Assembly
- Final Assembly

PRODUCTION II
- Final shooting

POST-PRODUCTION II & SOUND
- PostProduction and Assembly
- Color grading
- Grading
- FX
- Rotoscopy, Chromas and Integrations
- Project representation
- Render parameters
- Frame resolutions
- Layered rendering
- Sound Post Production

POST-PRODUCTION II & SOUND
- PostProduction, Assembly, Grading and Mixing
- Premiere of the Short Film in a Cinema

UNREAL & SHOTGUN
-Cinematics with Unreal
-Setting up a production pipeline wih Shotgun
-Implementing visual effects with Unreal Engine
-Reel
-Breakdown

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