COURSE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change:

FALL 2020 Motion Design & VFX

CLASS OUTLINE (Some items are subject to change)

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Week Zero - Greeting.
Overview of Syllabus - How to succeed in this class

Week 1 - Making the impossible possible.
Tech: Foreground & Background plates, masking, mattes (all stills)

Week 2 - Break the world.
Tech: Alpha channel and luminance matte and transparency. Displacement map from PSD to AE.

Week 3 - Smash the interface.
Tech: Motion design in AE from PSD - animating assets, working with masks, layers, pre-comps, and filters/effects. Keyframing. (Integrating 2D motion-design w video - GUI design). AE Camera & Lights & 3D space.

Week 4 - Unmake every place.
Tech: Set extension for video (camera lock-down)

Week 5 - Unsee Perspective.
Tech: Green screen and video compositing.

Week 6 - Simulate your mind.
Tech: Introduction to 3D platform (Cinema 4D) - basics: modeling, texturing, lighting, timing. First look at modeling, including meshes and splines.

Week 7 - Dream a surface.
Tech: Fundamentals of materials & textures & PBR.

Week 8 - Cast a shadow.
Tech: Virtual Light & Camera + Rendering.

Week 9 - Rebuild.
works-in-progress

Week 10 - Elevate.
final critiques
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