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DMA 231 - 3-D Animation II


5 CR

Students work with character motion and advanced animation techniques.

Prerequisite(s): DMA 130 or DMA 230  at BC with a C- or better, or instructor permission.

Course Outcomes
  • Describe and use 3D animation software hierarchies.
  • Provide examples of high-fidelity images created by advanced rendering engines and explain the differences to those created with a standard rendering engine.
  • Create beginning to intermediate character set-ups (rigs) in a 3D application.
  • Explain and apply both smooth and rigid skinning when connecting a 3d mesh to a joint structure.
  • Fully implement the 12 animation principles in actual examples.
  • Create intermediate to advanced shading networks in a 3D application.
  • Create believable human and animal motion in an animated example.


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