Pre-rendered 3D Animation

3D Modelling and Texturing

Digital Game Content Creation Pipeline: Game Production Timeline, Economic Constraints, Roles in the Game Production Team, Documenting Art Requirements (Concept Art, Storyboarding, Moodboard, Colours), Exporting, Optimising and Loading. 

2D Graphics: Bitmap, Colour Format, Alpha channel, Resizing and Cropping, Dynamic Range, File Formats (lossy and lossless), Sprite Design, Tiles Design.

3D Modelling: Vertices, Edges, Polygons, Primitives, Approaches to Low-poly Modelling (Box-modelling, Virtual Studio setup, Sculpting and retopologising), Operations in Modelling.

Texture: Mapping strategies, UV Mapping, Types of Maps (Light Map, Shadow Map, Occlusion Map, Specular/Glossiness Map, Bump Map, Normal Map, Displacement Map), Procedural Textures, Implications of texture size. 

3D Animation: Evolution of Computer Animation, Principles of 3D Computer Animation, Rigging, Skinning, Kinematics and Constraints, Keyframe animation, Cleaning Motion, Blendshapes, Locomotion, Facial Animation.

3D Virtual Scene Composition: Asset planning, Reusing assets, Level of Details (LoD), Procedural Level Generation.

Rendering and Lighting: Rendering Pipeline, Lighting and Shadows, Specular and Diffused Light, Radiosity and Global Illumination, Rendering still and animation.

Assets Conditioning for Game Engines.

Digital Games Content Production - 5109COMP

Digital Games Content Production

Apply appropriate low polygon modelling operations and textures to 3D models for incorporation into a game engine using the appropriate techniques and software tools.

Manage and reuse assets for composition of populated 3D scene.

Identify and interpret artistic requirements of 3D models.

Apply appropriate approach to render 3D animation sequences to file.

Plan and communicate motion graphic sequences for a short cinematic.

Apply principles of 3D animation to the production of 3D animation sequences for a short cinematic.