Course Term 1
VFX DESIGN & VISUALISATION
- History of Visual Effects in Films
- Concepts of Graphics and Illustrations
- Digital Illustrations
- Concepts of Cinematography & Photography
- Lights, Colour & Perspectives
- Digital Painting
- Anatomy Study
- Character Design
- Visual Scripting with Film Language
- Audio-Video Editing
- Storyboarding and Animatics
- Application of 2D Animation Principles
- Project Portfolio
Course Term 2
3D DESIGN & VFX BASICS
- Fundamentals of VFX and 3D Basics
- Digital Modeling with Maya
- Digital Sculpting
- Texturing 3D Models with Maya
- Lighting Models with Maya
- Rigging 3D Models with Maya
- 3D Character Animation & Rotomation
- Particle & Dynamics
- FX & Simulation
- Match Moving and Camera Tracking
- Crowd Simulation
- Working with Arnold Renderer
- Layer-Based Compositing
- 3D Design Portfolio
- Relevant Courses
Course Term 3
VISUAL EFFECTS FOR FILMS
- VFX Film making – Pre to Post Production
- Pre-visualization & VFX Video Shoot
- Introduction to Nuke
- Rotoscopy using Silhoutte
- Roto and RotoPaint
- Wire removal
- Colour Correction
- Green/ Blue screen
- Matchmoving Techniques
- Match Moving Techniques
- Time Remapping & Bounding Boxes
- Channel & Multi passes
- Advanced Compositing Tools
- FX with Houdini
- Z-depth & Multipass Compositing
- Specialisation & Digital Portfolio Development (Choose 1 elective)