2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

VGD 252 - 3D Modeling and Animation IV


Description: Advanced animation and modeling skills with an emphasis on techniques and tools to create and edit motion capture data files.

Prerequisites: VGD 152  

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Advanced character skeletal structures
  2. Biped character control rigs
  3. Character animation
  4. Blend shapes for facial expressions
  5. Animation tools and formats
  6. Manipulation and transfer of animation files between software packages
  7. Scrubbing animation errors 

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Create character animation systems. (1, 7)
  2. Develop professional character animation paradigms to rigged 3D character models. (1-4)
  3. Create animation files using application edit features. (5-7)