M.Sc in Animation and Visual Effects

This program has been designed from fine arts, through digital arts, animation process and pipeline, 3D animation, production management and so on to make you an animation professional with thorough pipeline knowledge and management capabilities & creating high-quality digital output for Film & Television. You will create captivating environments working on live action footage (VFX).

Course Content:

• Manmade drawings

• History of art & world art

• Overview on Digital imaging

• Introduction to vector & raster image

• Image editing techniques,

• Interior Modeling

• Concepts & purpose of unwrapping

• Application of materials in Maya

• FG, GI, Caustics, HDRI, physical sun & sky

• Types of Joints & IK creation

• Biped rigging

• Keying, blocking, primary & secondary animation

• Walk cycle animation

• Car Animation

• Different fields & effects

• integrate Photoshop layers to compositing

• VFX Compositing

• Live study drawing& painting

• Basic Composition

• Editing digital images

• Selection, Retouching, painting, text Tools

• Apply effects

• Understand important loop flow in model

• Different mapping methods

• Basic utilities

• Types of camera & its purpose

• SDK

• Quadruped rigging

• Editing animation in Graph editor

• Run cycle animation

• Facial Expressions

• Soft & rigid bodies

• Dynamic simulation

• 3D Compositing

• Preproduction drawings

• Focus (depth of field)

• Print usage

• Layer masks

• Car Modeling

• Cartoon character

• Generating texture using Maya & Photoshop

• Lights & its applications

• Constraints

• Skinning methods

• Principles of animation

• Squash & stretch animation

• Jump & Dive Animation

• Emitters, particles & its purpose

• Cloth & fur simulation

• Develop storyboards for group shoot

• Compiling movie through editing

Tution Fee

Note: The above fee includes annual University enrollment fee and examination fee payable to university for all subjects until completion of course. In case of arrears in examination, student will have to bear the expenses as per university norms.