I. Pre Production (Sketching)

• Planning
• Sketching
• Scripting
• Storyboarding
• Concept Art

II. Production

• Modelling
• Texturing
• Lighting
• Rigging
• Skinning
• Explosion
• Animation

III. Post Production

• Editing
• Compositing
• Sound Editing
• Broadcast

• Story Board Artist
• Clean-up Artist
• Digital Artist
• Layout Artist
• Lighting & Shading

• inBetween Artist
• Key Frame Artist
• Compositor
• Image Editor
• Digital Ink Artist

• Rigging Artist
• Lighting Artist
• Animator Artist
• Digital Effects Painter
• Digital Sculptor

• 3D Modeler
• Video Editor
• Audio Editor
• Paint Artist
• Scanner Operator

• Artistic Visualization
• Basics of Drawing
• Types of Lines
• Types of Shading
• Types of Tracing
• Free Hand Drawing
• Working with Layouts
• Visual Grammar
• Anatomy (The Head & the Figures)
• Facial Expressions: Figures
• Figure sketches study

• Concepts to basic techniques in Animation
• Construction Line
• Character Development
• Storyboard Making
• Lighting & Shading Study
• Classical Animation
• Principles of animation
• FlipBook Design with Light Box
• Developing a storyline concept
• Outlining Conceptual ideas
• Animation Layout and Design

Module 2. Animation Fundamentals

• Course Overview
• Getting Started with Maya
• Basic Modeling
• Model Detailing
• Model Finishing and Delivery
• Laying out UVs
• Materials
• Textures
• Rigging for Animation
• Animation in Maya
• Dynamics in Maya
• Lighting
• Rendering

Module 3: Modeling

• Exploring the UI of Maya
• Exploring Types of Objects
• Creating Primitive Objects
• Exploring Viewport Modes
• Understanding the Pivot Point
• Polygon Modeling
• Understanding Polygon Geometry
• NURBS Modeling
• Understanding a NURBS Curve
• Drawing and Modifying NURBS Curve
• Understanding a NURBS Surface
• Working with Booleans
• Products and Environment Modeling

Module 4. Texturing

• Exploring Different Types of Materials
• Understanding Materials Attributes
• Working with Hypershade Window
• Texturing in Maya
• Different Types of Textures
• Advanced UV Texturing Mapping
• Shading and Texturing Surfaces in Maya
• Assigning Material to Surfaces

Module 5. Lighting

• Working with Different Types of Lighting
• Creating Light Effects in Maya
• Understanding Shadows and Mental Ray
• Exploring Rendering Nodes
• Mental Ray Attributes
• Various Camera Types
• Creating and Animation with Cameras
• Overview of Cameras Attributes

• Creating objects
• 3D objects from 2D shape
• Transforms: position, rotation, and scale
• Managing objects: layers, hide, and isolate
• Introduction to materials
• Adding lights and cameras
• Rendering: V Ray
• More complex objects: Modifiers
• Booleans and compound objects

• Introduction to polygon modeling
• More complex materials: UVW coordinates
• Maps and Materials
• Texture unwrapping and painting with Photoshop
• Introduction to animation
• Keyframe animation
• Animating lights and cameras
• Rendering animation sequences
• Editing and compositing animation footage

• Rigging, Skinning & Expressions, Animation
• Various Types of Animation Methods in Maya
• Maya Keyframe Animation
• Advanced Graph Editor Tips
• Camera Animation
• Attach an object to a Motion Path Animation?
• Rigging, Constraints, and Deformers
• Character Rigging and Animation
• IK Spline Handle Tool
• Creating and Using Paint Effects
• Create a composite of Paint Effects strokes
• Exploring the Paint Effects Canvas
• 2D-3D Canvas Techniques

• Understanding Dynamics and Particle System
• Exploring Different Dynamic Systems
• Create nParticles in Maya
• Fluids Effects and Their Types
• How to work with nHair?
• Creating and Editing nCloth
• Working with Types of Rendering Methods
• Software and Hardware Rendering
• Overview of Vector Rendering
• Setting up Render Using Mental Ray Rendering
• Rendering a Scene
• Working with Rendering Layers
• Exploring Render Nodes Reference Library

Lesson 1. Learning the Premiere Pro interface

• Understanding digital video
• Switching Premiere Pro Workspaces
• Opening, closing, and moving panels
• Understanding the Application Tools
• Setting Application Preferences
• Using the Project Panel
• Understanding media management
• Creating and organizing bins
• Using the Media Browser Panel
• Previewing Clips: Hover Scrub vs Source Monitor
• Transcoding Video
• Locating Missing Media

Lesson 2. Learning to edit clips

• The Cuts-Only Editing Methodology
• Continuity editing
• A Roll vs. B Roll & Cut-ins
• Cut-aways & Cutting on action
• Working with Multiple Video Tracks
• Adding and deleting tracks
• Renaming tracks
• Trimming Clips in the Source Monitor
• Adding Clips to the Timeline
• Making Insert and Overwrite Edits
• Using the Timeline Editing Tools
• Markers: Timeline vs Clip

Lesson 3. Using video & audio transitions

• Understanding Transitions
• Adding transitions to video clips
• Preparing a clip to receive transitions
• Editing transition settings
• Adding an Audio Transition

Lesson 4. Learning to use Premiere Pro graphics

• Understanding the Uses of Titles in Video
• Creating & working with Graphic Clips
• Adding Images to a Graphic Clip
• Creating an end credit roll
• Time stretch and frame blending

Lesson 5. Working with imported graphics

• Working with Photoshop & Illustrator Files
• Importing layered Photoshop files into projects
• Understanding and Animating Static Clip Effects
• Position | Scale | Rotation | Opacity
• Adding Transitions & Effects to Images

Lesson 6. Using Premiere Pro Video Effects

• Understanding Video Effects?
• Animating Static Clip Effects
• Animating text with keyframes
• Applying Video Effects to Clips
• Timeline vs Project Panel

Lesson 7. Premiere Pro audio editing

• Understanding Clip Audio
• Using the Essential Audio Panel
• Assigning Audio Clip Types
• Exporting from Premiere Pro

lesson 8. Greenscreen Footage

• Creating a Garbage Matte
• Working with the Ultra Keyer
• Learning to stabilize shaky footage
• Using the Warp Stabilizer

Lesson 9. Advanced Editing in Premiere Pro

• Using the Trim View
• Slip, Slide and Rolling Edit Tools
• Match frames
• Nested timelines (Sequences)

Lesson 10. Masking Techniques in Premiere Pro

• Using keys & matte keys
• Color, Garbage &Track mattes
• Advanced transitions
• Advanced Audio editing in Premiere

Lesson 11. Integrating Photoshop

• Animating
• Importing layers as a sequence
• Alpha channels
• Updating Photoshop files

Lesson 12. Integrating After Effects

• Working with Premiere projects in After Effects
• Non-destructive integration
• Integrating Audition with Premiere Pro
• Working with Premiere projects in Audition

Lesson 13. Color Correction in Premiere Pro

• Creating a new reference monitor window
• Gang to reference monitor feature
• Working with color scopes
• 3 Point Color Correction
• Color Match

Lesson 14. Project optimization

• Using Media management
• Managing multiple projects
• Optimizing system performance
• Optimizing render speed
• Render que Output module templates

Lesson 15. Using the cloning tools

• Understanding high dynamic range
• Creating linear HDR compositing
• Understanding color management
• Creating Look up tables (LUT)

Lesson 16. Color, light, and heat

• Creating Lighting qualities
• Changing lighting direction & light strength
• Creating reflections & realistic shadow
• Understanding Multipass 3D compositing

Lesson 17. Creating environmental effects

• Creating fog, smoke, mist, wind, precipitation
• Making realistic fire and heat distortion
• Creating explosive effects

Lesson 18. Rotoscoping video footage

• Creating manual rotoscoping
• Using the roto brush
• Using the paint brush to Painting on color

Lesson 19. DVD export in Premiere Pro

• Using sequence markers
• Adding chapter information
• Exporting video from Premiere Pro

Lesson 1. Digital Video basics

• Analog versus digital
• Frame rate and resolution
• Understanding your Storage space
• Knowing your system requirements
• Defining motion Graphics

Lesson 2. After Effects Interface

• Creating a project
• Understanding the After Effects panel system
• Understanding the Composition Window
• Working in the Timeline Window
• RAM Preview vs. Standard Preview

Lesson 3. Media Management

• Importing media files
• Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
• Previewing footage, stills, and video, audio
• Trimming a video clip
• Using the Interpret Footage dialog box
• Looping an audio or video file

Lesson 4. Layers in Adobe After Effects

• Layer basics
• Layer options
• Creating a layer solid
• Understanding the layer switches
• Time stretch and frame blending
• Nesting compositions/layers using precomps

Lesson 5. Using Keyframes in Adobe After Effects

• Animation of layer properties using keyframes
• Using layer parenting to ease repetition
• Understanding motion paths
• Working with layer blending
• Controlling the speed of animations
• Easing principles

Lesson 6. Using text in Adobe After Effects

• Creating text
• Character palette
• Paragraph palette
• Animating text with keyframes
• Animating text using presets
• Using Bridge with After Effects

Lesson 7. Masking, Alpha Channels &Effects

• Masking
• Animating masks
• Working with alpha channels
• Track Matte
• Effect basics
• Animating effects

Lesson 8. Introduction to 3D in After Effects

• Exploring the 3D capabilities
• Creating 3D layers
• Using multiple viewports
• Understanding 3D Transform properties
• Animating 3D layers
• Creating and using lights

Lesson 9. Outputting in Adobe After Effects

• Rendering from a composition to various formats
• Understanding the Render Queue
• Adjusting render settings
• Duplicating jobs in the Render Queue
• Creating render templates
• Exporting a project file
• Rendering an individual frame

Lesson 10. Camera & Motion Tracking

• Using the 3d camera tracker Compositing
• 3d graphics with video
• Understanding motion tracking
• Motion tracking vs stabilization
• Setting a track point
• Using null objects
• Using the warp stabilizer

Lesson 11. Time remapping video

• Understanding time remapping
• Slow motion effects
• Fast motion effects
• Using frame blending
• Color correction and adjustment
• Adjusting tonality
• Adjusting Color

Lesson 12. Creating a background loop

• Expressions overview
• Creating scripts
• Using expressions
• Effect parameters
• Layer index
• Creating keyframe looping
• Conditional events

Lesson 13. Using the cloning tools

• Understanding high dynamic range
• Creating linear HDR compositing
• Understanding color management
• Creating Look up tables (LUT)

Lesson 14. Color, light, and heat

• Creating Lighting qualities
• Changing the lighting direction & light strength
• Creating reflections & realistic shadow
• Understanding Multipass 3D compositing

Lesson 15. Creating environmental effects

• Creating fog, smoke, mist, wind, precipitation
• Making realistic fire and heat distortion
• Creating explosive effects

Lesson 16. Rotoscoping video footage

• Creating manual rotoscoping
• Using the roto brush
• Using the paintbrush to Painting on color

Lesson 17. Project optimization

• Using Media management
• Managing multiple projects
• Optimizing system performance
• Optimizing render speed
• Render que Output module templates

Lesson 18. Chroma keying

• Understanding greenscreen shooting basics
• Using masks for compositing
• Using garbage mattes
• Using key light
• Refining a matte

Lesson 1. Audio Interface & Basic Editing

• Audio interface basics
• Testing inputs and outputs with Audition
• Optimizing system performance
• Using external interfaces
• Opening a file for editing
• Selecting a region for editing
• Cutting, deleting, and pasting audio regions
• Cutting and pasting with multiple clipboards
• Extending and shortening musical selections
• Simultaneous mixing and pasting
• Repeating part of a waveform to create a loop
• Showing waveform data under the cursor
• Fading regions to reduce artifacts

Lesson 2. Signal Processing

• Effects basics
• Using the Effects Rack
• Amplitude and Compression effects
• Delay and echo effects
• Filter and EQ effects
• Modulation effects
• Noise reduction/restoration
• Reverb & Special effects
• Stereo imagery effects
• Time and Pitch effect
• Third-party effects (VST and AU)
• Using the Effects menu
• Managing presets

Lesson 3. Audio Restoration

• Reducing hiss, crackles
• Reducing pops and clicks
• Reducing broadband noise
• De-humming a file
• Removing artifacts
• Manual artifact removal
• Alternate click Sound removal

Lesson 4. Mastering

• Mastering basics
• Equalization
• Dynamics
• Ambiance
• Stereo imaging
• “Push” the drum hits; then apply the changes
• Mastering diagnostics

Lesson 5. Sound Design

• About sound design
• Creating rain sounds
• Creating a babbling brook
• Creating insects at night
• Creating sci-fi machine effects
• Creating an alien drone flyby
• Extracting frequency bands

Lesson 6. Creating and Recording Files

• Recording into the Waveform Editor
• Recording into the Multitrack Editor
• Checking remaining free space
• Drag-and-dropping into an Audition Editor
• Importing tracks as individual files
• Importing tracks as a single file from an audio CD
• Saving a template

Lesson 7. Multitrack Editor Orientation

• About multitrack production
• Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration
• Changing track colors
• Loop selections for playback
• Track controls
• Channel mapping in the Multitrack Editor
• Side-chaining effects
• The Multitrack Mixer View
• Mixer view basics

Lesson 8. Editing Clips

• Creating a DJ-style (mixtape)
• Continuous music mix with crossfading
• Mixing collection of clips
• Exporting a collection of clips as a single file
• Selecting all clips in a single track
• Merging all clips in a track into a single file
• Editing for length
• Clip edits: Split, Trim, Volume
• Extending a clip via looping

Lesson 9. Creating Music With Sound Libraries

• About sound libraries
• Getting started
• Building a rhythm track
• Adding percussion
• Adding melodic elements
• Using loops with different pitch and tempo
• Adding effects

Lesson 10. Recording in the Multitrack Editor

• Getting ready to record a track
• Setting up the metronome
• Recording a part in a track
• Recording an additional part (overdub)
• “Punching” over a mistake
• Composite recording
• About, Clip & Track Automation

Lesson 11. Mixing

• About mixing
• Testing your acoustics
• The mixing process
• Exporting a stereo mix of the song
• Burning an audio CD of the song
• Exporting to SoundCloud