Track
Digital Designing
Duration
60 hours
Skill Level
Beginner
Language
English
About this Course
Learn animation basics and introductory VFX using modern digital tools.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- Overview of Animation and VFX History
- Difference in Animation and VFX
- Role of Animation and VFX in Various Industries
- Future Trends in Animation and VFX
- Structure of the Animation Industry
- Key Players and Studios in Animation
- Animation Production Pipeline
- VFX Production Pipeline
- Career Opportunities in Animation
- Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
- Basic Tools
- Selection Tools
- Making Selections with Different Tools
- Modifying an Existing Selection
- Saving and Loading Selections
- Case Study -Creating a Mockup
- Using Adobe Photoshop Scaling and Transform Tools
- Scaling
- Drawing and Coloring Tools
- Text Tools
- Type Tool and Options
- Advanced Text Options
- Tool Presets
- Image Modifications
- Color Modifications
- Using the Brush and Paint
- Brush Presets
- Colors and Shapes
- Advanced Tools
- Working with layers
- Layer Options
- Layer Effects
- Layer Styles
- Blending Modes
- Applying Masks
- Applying Masks
- Mask mode, Channels and Selections
- Getting Creative with Types
- Type Tool and Options
- Advanced Text Options
- (Exploring Filter Gallery)
- Filter and Effects
- Vanishing Point
- Techniques and Ethics in Photo Restoration
- Types of Photo Damage
- Scanning guidelines for old photo restoration
- Applying Restoration Techniques
- Use of Spot Healing Brush
- Use of Healing Brush Tool
- Use of Patch Tool
- Use of Clone Stamp Tool
- Use of Smudge Tool
- Colorizing Vintage Photos
- Applying Color Restoration Techniques
- Retaining the Authentic Look
- Preserving and Sharing Restored Photos
- Case Study - Wedding Photography Retouching
- Introduction to Digital Art
- Fundamentals of Digital Art
- Photo Manipulation: Techniques
- Photo Manipulation: Transforming Images into art
- Combining Multiple Images into Artworks
- Combining Multiple Images into Artworks Advance techniques
- Matte Painting
- Adding Fantasy Elements and Effects Setting Up and Basic Techniques
- Adding Fantasy Elements and Effects Advance techniques
- Adding Fantasy Elements and Effects Mastering Complex Composition
- Surreal Compositing Techniques Adding Basic Elements
- Surreal Compositing Techniques - Advance Techniques
- Digital Painting
- Introduction to Illustration
- What is Illustration?
- Introduction to Visual Communication Skills
- The Art of ‘Visual Communication’
- Importance of Illustration in Various Industries
- Overview of Different Illustration Styles
- Exploring Diverse Illustration Styles
- Adobe Illustrator for Beginners
- Introduction to Illustrator
- A Simple Guide to Vector and Raster Graphics
- Introduction to Basic Tools
- Illustrator Interface
- Organizing Files
- Saving files
- Understanding Artboards
- Tools
- Every Adobe Illustrator Tool Explained
- Colors in Illustrator
- Changing Color Modes in Illustrator
- Creating Your Own Color Palette
- Utilizing Ovals and Opacity
- Alignment Properties
- Isolate Selected Object
- Convert to curve with outlines
- Arc Tool
- Spiral Tool
- Rectangular Grid Tool
- Polar Grid Tool
- Rectangle Tool
- Ellipse Tool
- Polygon Tool
- Star Tool
- Flare Tool
- Using Brush Tool
- Pencil Tool
- Working With Gradient
- Mesh tool with multiple color
- Eyedropper Tool
- Measure Tool
- Working with color picker
- Multiple ways of fill color
- Layer Management and Workflow
- Exploring Hidden Features of Layer Panel
- Advanced Options to Manage Layers
- Converting Sublayers to the Main Layer
- Exploring the Basics of Paint Brush Tool
- Understanding the Flow of Digital Brush with Symbol Graphics
- Exploring the Digital Brushes and Techniques to Create a New
- Managing Color Swatches Panel with Existing Colors
- Adding and Sharing the Color Codes
- Using the Color Blending Options
- Create a Vector Peach from Sketch
- Reflect an Object
- Applying Skew and Shear Transformations to Objects
- Mastering the Bounding Box
- Perspective Grid Tool
- Basic Principles of Character Design
- Ethical Considerations for Character Design
- Practical Tips for Effective Character Design
- Character Turnaround
- Facial Features in Character Design
- Variations in Facial Features, Expressions and Emotions
- Hairstyles and Facil Hair
- Posture and Body Language
- Recap and Conclusion
- Exploring Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Responsible Practices
- Protecting your Illustrations
- Client Considerations
- Ethical Considerations
- Resources and Laws
- Copyright Infringement
- Overview of 2D digital Animation
- Basics of 2D Frame-by-Frame Animation
- Animation Principles Overview
- Squash and Stretch
- Anticipation
- Staging
- Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose
- Follow Through and Overlapping Action
- Slow In and Slow Out
- Arcs
- Secondary Action
- Timing
- Exaggeration
- Solid Drawing
- Appeal
- Understanding the 2D Animation Pre-Production Pipeline
- Importance of Pre-Production in 2D Animation
- Scriptwriting
- Writing the Narrative
- Dialogue Creation
- Scene Breakdown
- Script Analysis of ‘The Jungle Book’
- Research and Concept Development
- Story Idea Generation
- Character Concepts
- Initial Storyboard Sketches (Mood Board and Brainstorming)
- Character Design
- Characters Study
- Model and Exposure Sheet
- Expression Sheets
- Storyboarding
- Storyboard format
- Visual Storytelling
- Storyboard Examples from Iconic Animations
- 2D Layout
- Background Study in Animation
- Prop study
- Shot Composition
- Animatic Creation
- Turning Storyboards into Animatics
- Adding Temporary Sound and Dialogue
- Conclusion of Pre-Production
- Final Approval of Pre-Production Assets
- Preparing for Production Phase
- Overview of Toon Boom Harmony
- Installing and Setting Up Trial Version of Toon boom
- Basic Concepts of Toon Boom Harmony
- Navigating the Interface
- Basic Drawing Tools
- Using Brushes and Erasers
- Working with Layers
- Creating Keyframes in Toon Boom Harmony
- Understanding Object Animation
- Importing and Animating Objects
- Adding Colors and Textures
- Using the Camera Tool
- Adding Sound to Animation
- Exporting Your Animation
- Simple Animation Project
- Introduction to Dynamic Animation
- Understanding Camera Rigs and Motion Paths
- Make your own CARTOON character
- Understanding the node view
- Refine a cut-out 2D character
- Ease Set Parameter
- Animating Dynamic Hair Movement
- Understanding Parallax Scrolling and layers setup
- Positioning Layers and Creating Parallax Effect
- Creating Atmospheric Effects in Animation
- Designing a Bouncing Ball Animation
- Introduction to Secondary Animation
- Creating Simple Tracking Shots
- Adding Camera Shake to Scenes
- Understanding Mouth Shapes
- Syncing simple Animation to Audio
- Introduction to Overlapping Actions
- Applying Overlapping Actions in Animation
- Understanding Frame by Frame Animation
- Creating Realistic Hand Gestures
- Cloth Simulation and Rigging Basics
- Creating Emotions with Hand Poses
- Understanding Anticipation and Impact
- Smooth Scene Transitions
- Basics of Camera Cuts in Animation
- Creating seamless animation in Toon Boom Harmony
- Animating Smoke Effects
- Animating Fire Effects
- Creating Water Effects
- Animating Wind and Rain Effects
- Basics of Bone Deformers
- Using Inverse Kinematics
- Rigging basic Characters
- Animating Eyelid rigging
- Creating Eye Animation and Blinking
- Animating and rigging eyebrow movements
- Basic Hair Movement Animation
- Fundamentals of Mechanical Movements
- Advanced Gear Animation and Scripting
- Rigging Basic Vehicles
- Animating Basic Vehicles
- Setting up quadruped walk cycle
- Shaping and animating quadruped walking poses.
- Finalising quadruped walk cycle with torso animation
- Understanding Basic Secondary Motion
- Rigging and Setup for the Walk Cycle
- Animating and Refining the Walk Cycle
- Easy Run Cycle Animations
- Creating Underwater Scenes
- Introduction to Particles and Fluid Animation
- Create basic particle system
- Creating particles with a sprite
- The Particle Action Modifier
- Addition Action Modifier
- Velocity and Bounce Action
- Flying Bugs Animation
- Adding Glow and Blur Effects
- Creating a Magical Fairy Trail
- Simulate Realistic Smoke
- Creating a particle rain effect Animation
- Creating a Realistic Fire Effect Using Particles
- Create a Lush Grass Animation
- Creating Dynamic Speed Lines in Toon Boom Harmony
- Creating a Stunning Magic Wand Particle Effect
- Simulating Firework Blast Effect
- Introduction to 2D software
- Overview of interface and features
- Understanding Symbol system
- use of Symbol types
- Timeline and Layers
- Timeline/ FPS/ Ratio
- Creating Your First Animation
- Setting up a new project
- Types of brushes
- Understanding Keyframes
- Keyframe animation principles
- Key calling
- Tween
- Shape tween
- Motion tween
- Classic tween
- Squash and Stretch Techniques
- Applying squash and stretch to characters
- Onion skin
- Adjusting timing and spacing
- Case Study - Animating a Bouncing Ball
- Introduction to 2D Software
- Installing Animate CC
- Setting up a New Project
- Overview of Interface and Features
- Understanding the Timeline and Layers
- Animating a Bouncing Ball
- Character Design Basics
- Character Design Basics - II
- Understanding Keyframes and Timing
- Squash and Stretch Techniques
- Leaf falling
- Tracing
- Bouncing ball
- Rubber
- Metal
- Jump
- Jump with cap
- Bell animation
- Car
- Cow tail animation / Pendulum
- Falling box
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
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