3D & Animation

MONTPELLIER - TOULOUSE
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES – COURSE STUDY TIME: 3 YEARS – STUDENT STATUS


The evolution of visual digital technologies has revolutionised the world of entertainment. Animation, video games, cinema and advertising... Our daily lives are bombarded with 3D computer generated images. Thanks to its richness and diversified approach (from image semiology to 3D digital animation techniques), the teaching methods enable students to express themselves freely in a professional context. It is a 3-year course interspersed with outside training periods in summer. The objective of this course is to train animation professionals in CGI graphics.

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  • 3D Modelling: initiation to different modes of 3D geometry such as polygons, subdivisions of surfaces and nurbs, in order to be able to create any object or character in 3d.
  • Rendering: Materials, textures, UV unwrapping, constructing shaders, mapping, lighting, cameras, Maya and Mental Ray rendering, caustic effects, final gather...
  • Animation: Study of character animation techniques, mastering the creation of animation skeletons using linkage mechanisms such as inverse kinematics, skinning techniques for deforming character envelopes via their animation skeletons… Facial animation, non-linear animation techniques…
  • Special Effects: Study of physical phenomena such as gravity, wind, fog, dust... rigid bodies and their particularities: momentum, mass, collision; deformable bodies; Creating hair and animal fur…
  • Compositing: The final image treatment consisting of mixing and re treating layers in their different renders. How to use DIGITAL FUSION software.
  • Editing: How to use FINAL CUT PRO software.
  • Sound: Recording and editing films in a professional studio (le Studio des Aviateurs).
  • Script writing: How to develop a synopsis and write a screenplay.
  • Story board: The sequence of the film...