B.Design in Animation

This is the most important, most creative and fundamental part in animation without which neither production or post-production can be done. Pre-production for any animated film or game or comic is the process where you create a story, design the visual world that story will take place in, design the characters who will interact in that environment, and the pace or timing of the film. Preproduction involves character design, Background layout (BG), script writing & storyboarding. At Artemisia, though we teach all the aspects of animation, we focus a lot on pre-production as it is the most valuable skill an animator can have to rise high in animation industry.

The process which follows after completion of Pre-production is called as Production. 2D Production involves rigging & animation of the characters according to storboard & backgrounds developed in pre-production. Production process for creating a 3D animation involves Modeling, Texturing, Rigging & Animation.

• Fundamental of Art – Study about basic principles of art & color theory required in every design process.
• History of Animation – A study of the history of Animation from 1888 till the modern era which includes study of classics & the work of world famous animation studios.
• Sketching – Still Life, Nature Study, Life Drawing, Figure Drawing, Perspective, Gesture Drawing, Landscape, Coloring through different mediums.
• Principles of Animation on Lightbox – Study of the 12 principles of animation through various assignments on lightbox like bouncing ball, flour sack animation, etc.
• Pre – Production I (Character design & Layouts) – Introduction to character design & turnaround for animation. Introduction to Backgrounds & layouts for animation. This also includes case studies & adapting styles to create new characters & backgrounds.
• Introduction to Digital Tools – Photoshop -Use of photoshop for cleanup of rough ideas to create concept art, character design & making layouts & background for animation with coloring.

• Cinematography – Study about the tools of Cinematography, Shooting methods, Cinematic Continuity, Camera Movements & Film formats.
• Art Direction – Study about Animation Aesthetics, Animation styles, Production Design (shorts vs series vs feature productions), Inspiration, Composition, Staging & formats, Rhythm & Style Variety, Value & Color, Color scripts
• Storytelling – History & function of storyboards, various types of storyboards, production process, the beat board, story reels, choosing an idea, creating compelling characters, creating empathy, drama & conflict, Story Structures, The Hero’s Journey
• Advance Principles of Animation on Lightbox – Extension and application of animation principles through advance animation assignments for Morphing, Wave Principle Animation, Lip Sync, Pose to Pose Animation (Create passes in various emotions), Straight ahead animation, Key Cleanup & Inbetweening
• Storyboarding – Study of animation storyboards, writing your own story & storyboarding of the same story, Creating Animatics according to storyboard
• Pre-Production II (Advance Character Design & Backgrounds) – Breakdown of Key Layout according to storyboard, Rendering of Each Breakdown, Creating color keys, Rendering of Each Breakdown on Photoshop, Hero Character Design, Villain Character Design, Anthropomorphic Character Design .
• 2D Digital Animation (Flash & 2D Shortfilm) – Learning digital animation on Flash, Character rigging on Flash, Differences between Paperless Animation and Traditional Animation. Making 2D short film in Flash from script to screen.

• Digital Modeling – Study of Fundamentals of a Digital Model, Digital Modeling Methods, Model Classification: Hard Surface & Organic
• Lighting & Rendering – Fundamentals of Lighting Design, Types of Lights, Shadows & Occlusion,  Lighting in Animation, Cameras & Exposure, Composition & Staging, Shaders & Rendering
• Virtual Reality –  What is Virtual Reality – Stereoscopic Displays, Motion Tracking Hardware, Eye Tracking, Input Devices, Computing Platforms, How Virtual Reality is made? Hardware & Software Requirements to create Virtual Reality Difference between Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality, Animation in a VR world – Anime VR, Applications of Virtual Reality – 360º panoramas, etc.
• Dynamic Anatomy – Detailed study of human & animal anatomy. Study of Human Skeleton, Joints, Movements & Muscles. Study of basic structure of Quadruped Animals.
• Stop Motion Animation – Developing Basic Geometrical shapes in clay, Clay Modelling of human figures using armature, Introduction to Stop Motion Animation, Introduction to Puppets, Introduction to Aluminum Puppets, Creating your own stop motion animation from script to screen
• 3D Modeling & Texturing – Maya – Introduction to Maya 3D Modeling Interface, Developing Hard Surface Models like cars, architecture, etc., Hand Model Model, Character Modeling – Human & Animal (High Poly & Low Poly), Creating hair on a character, Creating  fur, Interior Environment. Software used – Substances Painter, Maya, Marmoset Toolbag
• 3D Rigging & Animation – Maya – Learn rigging of organic & inorganic models for 3D animation. Create 3D animation through various assignments using principles of animation.
• Unreal Engine – Game Engines are used to create high quality animations & environments & have become a major part of the animation & film industry as well. Learn to create basic to intermediate animations & environments on Unreal Engine.

• Visual Effects – Introduction to the Motion Picture/VFX Pipeline, Principles of motion picture & VFX, Origins of Visual Effects & VFX concepts,Rotoscoping, Motion Tracking & 2D Matchmoving, 3D CGI creation & its applications
• Digital Compositing – Compositing Application, Structure of Digital Images, Different between live action & CGI, Blue screen & Green screen. & their use in VFX.
• Motion Capture – History of motion capture, Pipeline of motion capture
• Digital Sculpting – Introduction to ZBrush for 3d Sculpting, Creating detailed characters on Z Brush.
• Visual Effects I – Learning various VFX softwares like Nuke, Fusion, PFTrack, After Effects, Real Flow.
• Visual Effects II – Learn how to do live action chroma shoot, Adding VFX to footage using VFX softwares.
• Unreal Engine – Game Engines are used to create high quality animations & environments & have become a major part of the animation & film industry as well. Learn to create advance animations & environments on Unreal Engine.
• 3D/VFX Short Film – Create your own 3D Short film from script to screen with VFX.