Learn and master the concepts, the techniques and tools to be a successful Environment and Prop Artist.
The role of the Environment/Prop Artist is to create worlds. They need to tell a story that will immerse the players in a narrative. They do this through designing and creating all types of assets; like castles, all kinds of vehicles, weapons, etc. An Environment/Prop Artist collaborates with other disciplines like level designers, and other artists, and between them they build and refine the 3D content that will define the game aesthetic and make sure the gameplay flows smoothly.
Working for a large illustration, concept, film or video game company is thrilling. Here you will discover all the professional techniques, keys and tricks. We will provide the technical knowledge to take your art to the next level and how to design fantasy worlds, real or fictional, that will later become small or large film, television or video games productions. Your imagination has no limits, discover how to direct your talent towards a future profession. You will learn the basics of professional drawing and delve into composition, vanishing points, framing, perspective, thumnails and a wide range of concepts before moving on to the next steps of shading, color and texture for enviroments and characters and achieve professional results. You will create a final portfolio of your work to present at studios and production companies.
Learn about the professional concepts of top level animation. From the Fundamentals of Animation to Body Mechanics to Acting. This discipline will teach you how to not only create your characters but, most importantly, to make them believable. You will learn the art of Animation while using current industry techniques and tools.
You will learn about internal structures and production processes used by audiovisual companies specialized in animation films, video games and advertising. By the end of your academic training, you will have produced a reel of your best animation work created throughout the course which will be your main asset in presentations and will help you get your your first job as a character animator in the industry.
INTRODUCTION TO MODELING
-Concept analysis
-Maya Interface
-Navigation
-Surface types overview (NURBS, polygons, and subD)
-"Box" modeling
-Bump, displacement, and normal maps
-Understanding Physical Based Rendering (PBR)
-Modeling Toolkit
-Quality Check preparation for UVs
-UV creation
-Retopology
-Materials, textures, and the hypershade editor
INTRODUCTION TO SUBSTANCE PAINTER
-Interface and Bakes
-Layers, Smart Materials, Anchor points, IDs material.
-How to work with UDIMS and instances.
-How to export textures
-How to work with masks
-Particle brushes
-Iray offline renderer
MODELING FOR PRODUCTION
-High / low poly modeling
-Packing UVs to maximize texel density
-Texture Baking
-Topology and good practices
-Refine the model
-How to present your model
-Showing your work to your supervisors and artistic directors
-Final Quality Check ,Cleaning
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PROPS, WEAPONS AND VEHICLES FOR VIDEOGAMES
-Modeling and textured prop hero.
-Advanced modeling and texturing techniques
-Lighting and presentation.
-Rigging
-Introduction to Animation Fundamentals
ZBRUSH INTRO FOR CONCEPTING
-Zbrush interface
-Navigation, brushes and common tools.
-Polygroups, Insert Mesh, Booleans, Polypaint.
-Brushes for Hard Surface, Creasing, Clip, Slice, Trim, Zremesh
-Curve Brush Basics
-Fibermesh Basics, morph targets
-Custom Alphas / VDM
-ZModeler Basics
-Dynamic Subd, Creasing, QGrid
ZBRUSH FOR PRODUCTION
-Refine the model
-Deformer Rotate, Scale, Offset, Stretch, and Skew
-UV Master, Decimation Master
-Live Boolean Basics
-Group and Panel Loops, moving and splitting
-Custom Hard Surface Alphas
-Reconstruct Subdiv
-Surface Noise, Noise Maker, Document Tiling
-Polygroup It
-ZBrush Native Render (and IBL)
-Stylized Rendering Basics
ADVANCED SUBSTANCE AND INTRODUCTION TO UNREAL ENGINE
-Lighting, texturing and materials for video games
-Generation of photorealistic tileable textures with Quixel Mixer.
-Static Mesh Editor, Material Editor and lights in Unreal.
-Post process and Unreal cameras
CREATION OF FINAL PROJECT
-How to gather reference and organize it for project.
-Blocking and initial modeling.
-Modeling and textured final of 1 prop.
-Introduction to Unreal Engine 5
-How to use Nanite and Lumen
FINAL PROJECT AND REEL
-Final modeling of the environment.
-Modeling and textured environment
-Light it up and present it in Marmoset or Unreal.
-Development of camera movements and take out sequences of images and final renders.
-Edit the final reel.
FUNDAMENTALS I
-Introduction to Photoshop
-Basic Geometric Shapes
-Basic Rules of Lighting
-Types of Lighting and Shading
-Fundamentals of Perspective (1 PF)
-Basic Anatomy
-Materials: Basic
FUNDAMENTALS II
-The value (Grayscale)
-Materials: Intermediate
-Basic Anatomy
-Fundamentals of Perspective (2PF)
-Proportions
-Complex Geometric Shapes
FUNDAMENTALS III
-Fundamentals of Perspective (3 PF)
-Basic Anatomy
-Complex Vehicles and Objects in perspective
CONCEPT ART I
-Advanced Perspective (1 PF, 2 PF, 3 PF)
-Scenes and camera angles
-Light and Shade
CONCEPT ART II
-Advanced Anatomy
-Theory of color
-Materials:Advanced
-Coloring Lanscapes
CONCEPT ART III
-Advanced Anatomy
-Reference searching and generating ideas
-Creating thumbnails
-Creating your own brushes and personalized shapes
-Composition, The rule of thirds
-Designing with silhouettes
-Prop Design
CONCEPT ART IV
Advanced Anatomy
Designing interiors and exteriors
Environments and backgrounds for video games
Designing arms
Photo texturization and matte painting techniques
CONCEPT ART V
Designing characters with silhouettes
Exploring characters with lines
Layer strategy in Photoshop
The occlusion pass
Character turn arounds
CONCEPT ART VI
Advanced Anatomy
Acting
Expressions
Layout
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
PHOTOSHOP.
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