Course Overview
In this course students will begin to use 3D application and compositing software including 3DMax, After Effects and Maya to create visual effect segments such as explosions, water, fire and weather such as storms, hurricanes and blizzards for video projects. Students will be taught how to use color keying techniques to bring a real character into a virtual environment. Students will be shown how transfer their new software skills into producing their own visual effects. By changing the parameters in each effect students may create new effects such as changing water into lava. By the end of this course students will produce a video project containing a series of visual effects.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Study the art of visual effects by reviewing successful and unsuccessful movies.
- Visual effects break-down.
- Work as a member of a team to produce a visual effect video project.
- Shoot a raw high definition video.
- Create 3D effects in Maya and/or 3D max using industry related plug-ins.
- Render 3D visual effects for final student project.
- Import video footage and 3D effects into After Effects for compositing.
- Incorporate Green Screen footage and color keying techniques into students video.
- Demonstrate use of Camera and Object Tracking in After-Effects.
- Demonstrate knowledge of Color and light matching between real footage and 3D elements.
- Finalize and render a project for real production.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2011
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