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Jul 25, 2025
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CCOM 362 - 3D ANIMATION & VFX 4 FLM MAKNG
Course Description:
The course is designed to empower artists with the creative and technical skills needed to enter the demanding 3D Animation, 3D Modelling, Visual Effects, and Games industries. The course is focused on 3D Animation and 3D Modelling and its various departmental specializations, The course also includes the fundamentals of storytelling through acting and visual composition, camera tracking, and look development and the basics of compositing.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Learn 3D animation deals with multiple steps like Modeling, Unwrapping, and Texturing, lighting, animation and character rigging.
2. Creating a step-by-step modeling to have a complex model for a complete game, action movies VFX.
3. Learn digital UVW mapping.
4. Learn how to use computer generated lighting applications.
5. Learn multiple render engines.
6. Learn image layers, and various rendering options.
7. Learn camera, camera effects, and camera tracking.
8. Learn Animation techniques.
9. Learn how to create 3D visual effects such as destructions, explosions, water effects and clouds, as well as procedurally generated environments such as cities, beaches and forests.
10. Creating Cloth behavior and its stimulation for the character which is modeled with creating constraints, adding geometry parts to cloth using deformers.
11. Learn Layer-Based Compositing.
12. Learn coloring principles and effects.
13. Learn Storyboarding & Animatics.
14. Learn Match moving Techniques, Matte Painting.
15. Learn Green/Blue Screen.
16. Pre-visualization & VFX Video Shoot.
17. VFX Film Making - Pre to Post Production.
18. Learn advanced Compositing Tools.


12.000 Continuing Education Units
12.000 Lab hours

Levels: Continuing Education
Schedule Types: Lab

SCE Partnership &Programs Department

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs:     
      3D Animation & VFX 4 FLM Makng
Must be enrolled in one of the following Departments:     
      SCE Partnership &Programs

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