3D Animation

Course details

3D Animators can graphically simplify complicated concepts and convey complex inter-relationships, which are difficult to visualize. Concepts and ideas,which cannot easily be represented in words or even through illustrations, canbe easily created and viewed from different angles. Animation can combine vast amounts of scientific data into a compact package, which can then be presented simplistically. Animation captures attention, and the information which is presented as a moving image is retained by the viewer for a longer time and with greater accuracy. Animation can re-create an event, which is too expensive or too dangerous to reproduce, e.g. an aircraft accident. Scenes which have beenaltered or which no longer exist, e.g. Demolished buildings or colonies to be constructed can be easily re-created through animation.

Course Contents 

Getting started

• Introduction to 3dS Max
•  Basic Concept about 3D
• Introduction to view ports
• Introduction to the Axis

Different types of objects

• Introduction to Objects
• Primitive Objects
• Extended Primitives
• Splines

Rendering an object

• Introduction to rendering
• Save a rendered output as bitmap.

Animation

• Introduction To Animation
• Introduction to Key frames
• Introduction to Particles
• Particle Animation
• Space warps
• Special Effects
• Rendering an animation

Introduction to Camera

• Add a Camera into the view port
• Animation of camera along a path
• Making a walkthrough