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3D Texture Painting

Take your painting skills to the next level, learning to hand paint textures and create shaders for richly detailed organic objects and creatures, down to micro details of skin pores and wrinkles. A great class for both modelers and lookdev artists. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 357.)

Studio X Story Development

You will learn how to make your ideas come to life using visual development, storyboarding, basic drawing, basic design, basic fundamentals of animation, film grammar, and three-act story structure. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 498XD.)

Cinematics for Animation & VFX

Cinematics is the language and techniques of filmmaking. To learn Cinematics Animation and VFX, you’ll board, shoot, and edit a film, critically analyzing examples of film content and production to understand why choices in filmmaking are made.

Introduction to Animation Principles & Techniques

Gain technical skills practicing experimental and stop motion animation. Building a firm foundation for future animation work, you’ll gain hands-on experience with media of clay, paper cutouts, found objects, pixilation, and stop motion puppets.

Careers in Animation and VFX

Step back and survey your body of work. Working with faculty, you’ll identify strengths, weaknesses, and interests to determine your emphasis and begin developing your portfolio to meet industry standards.

Studio X 3D Animation

In this advanced 3D animation course that recreates the production environment, you will be responsible for generating animation to the specifications of the project’s stakeholder. You will focus on matching action across shot cuts, adapting animation styles to align with project aesthetics, and delivering files in the production pipeline. Portfolio… Read More

Node-Based Compositing 2

Develop your ability to plan and solve problems in a production environment. You’ll apply independent skills you’ve acquired in Nuke and other software to real-world projects. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 441.)

Advanced Lookdev and Lighting

Lighting can determine both what the audience sees and how they feel. You’ll learn advanced lookdev techniques, such as grooming hair and rendering cloth fibers down to the thread level, as well as advanced lighting techniques and tricks of the trade used by cinematographers to create stunning animated shots. (This… Read More

3D Character Animation 3

Apply acting and performance methods to character animation. You’ll take an in-depth look at character acting, action, game animation, lip-sync, facial expressions, subtext, and reference. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 620.)

Organic Modeling 2

Model organic characters like professional visual effect studio modelers. This course further develops comprehensive instruction in Zbrush software for high resolution organic modeling. Course concepts include model retopology, character concept design, polypainting and texturing, transform and decimation tools, and rendering model turntables. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 413.)