Diploma in Animation and Visual effects(VFX) With iPAD

Courses Diploma Programs Animation and Visual effects(VFX)

Diploma in Animation and Visual effects(VFX) With iPAD

The 3D animation and visual effects diploma is an exhaustive curriculum aimed to prepare students for the demands of careers in the cutting-edge 3D animation and visual effects disciplines. Animation and visual effects are no longer restricted to feature films but are also widely used in Engineering, television, web content, performing arts and corporate communications. The students learn the fundamentals of art, design, 3D and visual effects, and then apply this knowledge to 3D modeling, character animation, motion capture, character rigging, texture and lighting, and compositing.

An industry appropriate student experience is provided through industry standard software and state of the art labs that boast a one to one (student to machine) ratio.

The program begins by introducing the fundamental of art and design for effective visual communication. The digital design module builds on the fundamentals and enables the students to create effective visual communication for print and web media. The later modules expose the students to the process of creating visually rich animation and integrating live and computer generated imageries.

The course further extends their knowledge with the project development that combines idea generation, production process and advanced CG techniques like 3D objects, particles, effects and camera tracking.

Graphic Design is a comprehensive design curriculum for creating effective visual communication. The exhaustive curriculum incorporates visualization, concept development, design techniques and composition through design case studies and hands-on exercises. The module provides specialization in areas such as layout, illustration, Print based graphics and Digital graphics.

Digital Painting
Sourcing Images
Collage Making Restoring & Retouching Techniques
Color & Contrast Correction
Logo Designing (Corporate Identity)
Digital Illustration
Advertisement Designing
Designing Posters, Banners & Panels
Designing Brochures & Pamphlets
Package Designing
Cover Designing
Preparing Artwork for printing

Visual Design is an extensive hands-on foundation module in Digital Visual Art & Design, aimed to stimulate the student's creativity and imagination. Through Art & Design assignments, students master how to make aesthetic and practical design decisions. Also they learn about the diverse roles and functions of design elements in present-day life and their applications in Digital Visual Media.

Principles of design
Color Theory
Typography
Visual Enhancement
Composition & Layout
Forms & Shading
Perspective Drawing
Figure Drawing Basics
Storyboarding

Web design is a web-focused curriculum that helps master the art and skill of effectively communicating to a global audience through a website. The project based curriculum covers all aspects of creating an effective site including interactive design and interface design. Comprehensive coverage extends from basic to advanced content creation for optimal web delivery.

Networking Basics
Functionality of websites
Print versus Web Design
Web page Designing
Optimizing images
Coding in Html
Cascading style sheets
Website Management
Inserting media elements
Web Hosting & Maintenance
Web Animation
Web Banner Advertisement
Interface Designing
Action Script Fundamentals
Sound Editing & Processing

3D Design provides a foundation to the understanding of 3D concepts like modeling, texturing, lighting, camera, animation & rendering in a simplified manner. The module is innovative, project focused and encourages teamwork, planning and thoughtful execution of 3D project. The Media Animation project taught in this module serves as a strong foundation for aspiring 3D Modelers, Texture Artists, Visual Effects Artists, Character Animators and prepares them to cope with the Specialization modules to be taught in the later part of the Diploma program.

Introduction to 3D Graphics
Modifying and Deforming Geometry
Texturing & Lighting Basics
Camera Manipulation
Logo Animation Techniques
3D Special Effects
Rendering techniques and file formats

Digital Video Editing adds interest and variety to the Diploma. The module enables the students to make a rough cut of their 3D and Visual FX works and apply interesting transitions and video effects. Students learn video capturing, professional video editing techniques like 3 point editing, synchronize audio and video, apply filters and output the edited video to various file formats.

Digitizing footage
Movie titling
Multimedia Presentation
Editing with Special Effects
Rendering techniques

Specialization Modules

Advanced Art
2D Animation
Advanced Animation

Advanced figure drawing techniques
Painting techniques
Drawing for Animation Walk Cycle
Cartoon Basics & Character Creation

Introduction to Animation
Principles of Animation
Flash Animation concepts
Script writing
Storyboard
Audio
Animation process

Advanced Modeling Techniques
Architectural Walkthrough
Advanced Texturing
Natural & Studio Lighting
Character Rigging
Character Animation
Facial Animation & Lip Synch
Set Creation
Fluid effects
Dynamics
Unlimited tools – Hair, Fur
Advanced Rendering Techniques

Course Duration

Normal Track	20 Months 2 hrs classes on alternate days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday (OR) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday)
Fast Track	10 Months 2 hrs class every day (Monday to Saturday)

Career Opportunities

The film and TV industry is making great strides in quality content creation, production and development which are distributed all over the world. The highway to this success was paved by the growth of Visual effects and animation industries. Many Indian visual effects and animation studio work from India turning pixels into Hollywood films. Being home to one of the largest producer of film and TV content, the Indian market is always in demand for more quality professional. The visual effects artist key role is to make imaginations come true on screen, this specialization offered by Image prepares, the student to enter this evergreen industry as a Compositor, rotoscope artist, postproduction artist, Visual effects supervisor, etc to be part of Animation, Feature film, TV and Video game industries.