Module Descriptors
ADVANCED 3D CHARACTER MODELLING AND ANIMATION
FVFX60128
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
30 credits
Contact
Leader: Paul Lucking
Email: P.A.Lucking@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 72
Independent Study Hours: 228
Total Learning Hours: 300
Assessment
- ASSIGNMENT weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None
Module Texts
Learning Maya: Character Rigging and Animation, Maya Press, 2003, Sybex, ISBN: 1-894893-41-7
Module Additional Assessment Details
ASSIGNMENT written with accompanying practical work weighted at 100% assessing Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Module Indicative Content
Students will learn skills in the following:-
- Using templates as a guide for creating character geometry.
- How to create a UVW map which will then be exported to a bitmap editing package.
- Using a bitmap editing package with the UVW to create colour, bump and specularity maps which will then be reapplied to the model.
- How to create a 'normals' map from a complex model that can then be used to displace a more simple model.
- How to create and use inverse kinematic systems to control movement on a 3d model.
- How to use deformers to alter a 3d character's geometry based on the relative movement of inverse kinematic systems.
- Using templates as a guide for creating character geometry.
- How to create a UVW map which will then be exported to a bitmap editing package.
- Using a bitmap editing package with the UVW to create colour, bump and specularity maps which will then be reapplied to the model.
- How to create a 'normals' map from a complex model that can then be used to displace a more simple model.
- How to create and use inverse kinematic systems to control movement on a 3d model.
- How to use deformers to alter a 3d character's geometry based on the relative movement of inverse kinematic systems.
Module Learning Strategies
3 hours per week Interactive lecture / lab sessions
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(1:40)3
Module Resources
Alias Maya 3D software