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Motion Capture (images in collection courtesy of Vicon & OptiTrack)

 

Next course: Jan 11th - Feb 19th 2009

Register to course now!

 

6 weeks - 240 hrs.

course price: 3 290,- €

The course is designed for students who want to apply for a job in the 3D industry straight after finishing this class.

Classes focus on the 3D character animation, modeling, and texturing. You will be working with MoCap technology and various animation software tools.

Each student will end up with at least 30 seconds of character animation and several models for their showreel.

Professional class is restricted only for Intro&Advanced class graduates. You can take 2 courses together for just EUR 5 900,-

(C) Martin Lisec
(C) Daniel Nezmar
(C) Daniel Nezmar

Week 1 - 2:

Animation introduction

Autodesk Maya, Motion Builder
Vicon Nexus, IQ2
  • Character animation
  • Working with camera
  • Blendshapes
  • Project work

Week 3 - 4:

Animation

Autodesk Maya, Motion Builder
  • Deformers
  • Facial animation
  • Motion Capture
  • Cleaning and exporting MoCap data
  • Mounting MoCap data on your own character
  • Project work

Week 5:

Rendering & Post-production class

  • Camera tracking
  • Light & rendering
  • Color matching
  • Editing
  • Basics of dynamics & VFX
  • Project work

Week 6:

Project week

  • Project finishing

 

Course daily schedule:

09:30 - 10:45
Education
10:45 - 11:00
 Break
11:00 - 12:15
Education
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:45
Education - workshop
14:45 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 16:30
Education - workshop
16:30 - 17:30
Workshop