3D ANIMATION-II

Paper Code: 
BMA 414
Credits: 
08
Periods/week: 
12
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to-

 

  1. Learn advance 3D Animation in terms of Rigging and its key terms.
  2. Learn about animating gestures and poses of a character in 3D.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

Course

Learning Outcomes (at course level)

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

BMA 414

3D

Animation-

II

 (Practical)

 

Students will be able to:

CO100. Explore bone setup and joints of two legs and four legs for rigging.

CO101. List Constraints and its use in rigging.

CO102. Create an inorganic and organic rigging set up.

CO103. Design & develop muscles system and able to bind skin joints together.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, reading assignments, Demonstrations, Group activities, Teaching using advanced video tools.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Assessment Strategies

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

 

36.00
Unit I: 

Using Joints and Constraints, Joint Basics, Point Constraints, Aim Constraints, Inverse Kinematics, Driven Keys, Creating a Driven Key, Looping Driven Keys, Copying and Pasting Driven Keys, Animating Constraints, Dynamic Parenting, Set Driven Key, Establish Relationships where one action automatically drives another, Create deformers, Non linear deformers.

36.00
Unit II: 

Rigging: Understanding Rigging, Creating and Organizing Joint Hierarchies, Orienting Joints, Naming Joints, Mirroring Joints, IK Legs, FK Blending, Rotate Plane Solvers, Creating Custom Attributes, Spline IK.

36.00
Unit III: 

IK Handle Tool, Create a Master Control. Full Body Inverse Kinematics, Skinning Geometry, Interactive/Smooth Binding, Painting Skin Weights, Editing Skin Weights in the Component Editor, Copying Skin Weights, Mirroring Skin Weights.

36.00
Unit IV: 

Introduction to Mechanical Rigging, Car Rigging, Making custom Controllers, Using Expression Editor, Creating Simple Expressions.

36.00
Unit V: 

Animating Facial Expressions Using Blend Shapes, Creating Blend Shapes, Painting Blend Shape Weights, Adding Targets, Creating a Custom Mouth Control Slider, Connecting the Slider to the Blend Shape, Animating Blend Shapes Sequentially, Animating Object Components with Clusters, Adding Cluster Objects, Painting Cluster Weights, Applying Cluster Components, Constraining Clusters.

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

1.      DariushDerakhshani, “Introducing Autodesk Maya 2012: Autodesk Official Training Guide”, Wiley India Pvt Ltd (2011).

2.      DariushDerakhshani, “Introducing Autodesk Maya 2013 Guide”, Wiley India Pvt Ltd (2012).

REFERENCES: 
  1. Kogent Learning Solutions Inc., “MAYA 2014 in Simple Steps”, Dreamtech Press 2014.
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