Level 2 Courses
Evolve from an intermediate to an advanced professional artist!
COURSES AVAILABLE:
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GENERAL INFORMATION / COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Below is a brief description of all the Level 2 courses provided by Digireal Studios. Please note that the courses are scalable and you can choose to complete them in one year or 4 months.
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Duration:
Available as 1 year training or 4 months fast paced training
Sessions:
Live online meetings/lessons/workshops/seminars.
Enrollment Requirements:
No prior knowledge is required unless stated otherwise in the course description.
Minimum Hardware Requirement:
Laptop or Desktop (Windows or OS X), 4GB RAM, dual core cpu, microphone, speakers.
Internet Connection:
Minimum of 2Mbps or better (Wifi or LAN)
Fees:
Our courses are provided in a variety of ways to offer the best possible training experience to students and professionals, therefore, please contact us to discuss your options and get the most recent fees and discount offers available.
General Information:
The courses are offered online via a live and interactive platform that allows students to interact with the other students and the teacher in the same way they would if they were in a physical classroom. The lessons are not prerecorded videos, however they are recorded during the session so that students can access the video and have their questions answered again and again. This helps the students learn faster as they do not need to spend time taking notes thus remain focus on the session and ask questions. A student can join the lessons from almost any device and location globally that has access to the internet. The students will have weekly assignments based on the content they will be trained on that week. Support is always provided to the students Monday to Friday 10a.m-8p.m for any inquiries regarding the sessions and projects. Students will also join Digireal Studios’s community groups online to help them engage with the rest of the students from previous years, post work, ask questions and seek further support and feedback.
GAME & MOVIE DESIGN – CONCEPT ART (LEVEL 2)
Game & Movie Design – Concept Art (Level 2)
(Prior knowledge is required: Concept Art Level 1)
Who is it for:
Anyone interested into developing advanced 2D digital drawing, character and environment design skills and build a professional portfolio for job applications in either the Game Design or the Movie production industry. Anyone interested into or coming from a related course field like Illustration, 3D Modeling, 3D Animation and more on an undergraduate Bachelor (BA Hons) Degree level. University students or graduates form similar Bachelor (BA Hons) or Master’s Degree courses who aim to level up their skills fast. Industry professionals seeking further knowledge.
Course Details:
The attendants of the Level 2 Game & Movie Design – Concept Art course will further develop their digital design skills acquired in Level 1 by learning professional tips and tricks to master their fundamental skills in fields such as Body Anatomy, Scale, Perspective, Scene Layout, Scene Mapping, Camera Angles, Color Theory, Composition, Lighting, Coloring, and more. Efficiency and efficacy are necessary skills required and sought after in a production level environment, therefore, during the first three months the course will focus on teaching advanced level techniques within image editing applications and aim for the students to build up speed to match the industry’s standard pace.
Throughout this concept art course, a number of pieces of artwork will be created and a selection of concept designs will be produced to a higher level of detail. The students will then learn to finalize their concept designs into high quality production standard stills called Matte Paintings that are used as set extensions mostly in the film industry. These Matte Paintings will be broken down into foreground, middle ground and background layer plates to be further edited within video compositing applications for camera animation purposes. A series of professional post-production workflow techniques will be demonstrated live through the workshops, to enhance the Matte Painting’s aesthetics by adding visual effects (VFX), and bringing it to life. Added to the above, the attendants will be required to record their process from the first stage of concept design until the final stage of Matte Painting. Lastly, a constructive video showing the whole design process will be produced to showcase the students’ work.
By the end of this Level 2 Game & Movie Design – Concept Art course, a professional portfolio will be built using a series of digital environments designed from many angles, along with complete character charts including poses, facial expressions, props and more. In addition, the students are expected to gain a solid understanding of the advanced techniques that are required to design complex ideas and also feel confident using image editing applications. The students will also acquire specific post-production knowledge using video compositing tools to showcase their production process between Concept Art and Matte Painting, and lastly create a camera animation with visual effects using their final Matte Painting.
Skills Acquired in the Course:
- Research
- Brain Storming
- Idea Generation
- Mastering Fundamentals
- Advanced Lighting
- Concept Development
- Prop Design
- Vehicle Design
- Character Design
- Environment Design
- Matte Painting
- Compositing
- Visual Effects
Fees:
Our courses are provided in a variety of ways to offer the best possible training experience to students and professionals, therefore, please contact us to discuss your options and get the most recent fees and discount offers available.
Join the Game Design – Concept Art course at Digireal Studios today and study professional workflows and techniques required by the industry, from day one! Available in Cyprus (Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, Paphos, Famagusta) and online globally.
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3D MODELING – Character Design (LEVEL 2)
3D Modeling – Character Design (Level 2)
(Suggested prior knowledge: 3D Modeling & Concept Art Level 1)
Who is it for:
Anyone interested into learning advanced 3D modeling techniques for character and prop design and building a professional portfolio for job applications in either the Game Design or the Movie production industry. Anyone interested into or coming from a related course field like Concept Art, Illustration, 3D Modeling for Architectural or Industrial Design, Game Design, 3D Animation, Visual Effects and more on an undergraduate Bachelor (BA Hons) Degree level. University students or graduates form similar Bachelor (BA Hons) or Master’s Degree courses who aim to level up their skills fast. Industry professionals seeking further knowledge.
Course Details:
This advanced 3D Modeling course is dedicated to teaching the students the complete production workflow used by professionals in studios for designing and creating 3D characters and props. From day one, the students will learn 3D modeling techniques within industry’s standard digital sculpting software. At the same time, a series of short exercises will train the attendants to brainstorm design ideas that can be applied to a variety of characters for cartoons, games and movies, whilst staying within a given theme.
The course aims to challenge the students’ ability to think fast, think smart, and think wide in order to be able to produce a vast variety of characters for any genre. This 3D modeling course will focus a lot on the details that make the difference between a simple character and a believable living and breathing character produced by AAA studios around the world.
A series of live demonstration workshops will teach the students how to develop anatomy skills as well as how to create rough 3D concept models for their character ideas, using a variety of approaches. Once approved, these 3D concept models will then be remodeled with high resolution details and retopologized to their optimized low-resolution version models, that are ideal and necessary for games and animated movies. The low-res models will be exported for UV unwrapping and using texture baking applications the students will generate texture maps like Normal map, Displacement, Ambient Occlusion, Thickness, Curvature, ID map and more.
Using the above baked maps the low-res characters will be fully textured using both procedural and hand painted professional methods and software. Lastly, the 3D models will be shaded with materials and rendered using photorealistic lighting setups and both GPU and CPU renderers. During the rendering stage, all the appropriate render passes (AOVs) such as ambient occlusion, shadows, reflectivity, specular highlight, diffusion, depth, and more will be exported for compositing purposes using post production techniques to enhance the final render image.
Skills Acquired in the Course:
- Research
- Brain Storming
- Idea Generation
- Anatomy
- Polygonal modeling
- NURBS modeling
- Character Modeling
- Retopology
- UV Unwrapping
- Baking maps
- Texturing
- Lighting
- Materials / Shading
- Rendering
- Compositing
Fees:
Our courses are provided in a variety of ways to offer the best possible training experience to students and professionals, therefore, please contact us to discuss your options and get the most recent fees and discount offers available.
Join the 3D Modeling – Character Design course today and study professional workflows and techniques required by the industry, from day one! Available in Cyprus (Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, Paphos, Famagusta) and online globally.
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3D MODELING – General Focus (LEVEL 2)
3D Modeling – General Focus (Level 2)
(Prior knowledge required: 3D Modeling Level 1)
Who is it for:
Anyone interested into learning advanced 3D modeling techniques and building a professional portfolio for job applications in multidisciplinary fields such as Game Design, Movie Production, Product Design, Architectural Visualization, and more. Anyone interested into or coming from a related course field like Concept Art, Illustration, 3D Modeling for Character Design, Game Design, 3D Animation, Visual Effects and more on an undergraduate Bachelor (BA Hons) Degree level. University students or graduates form similar Bachelor (BA Hons) or Master’s Degree courses who aim to level up their skills fast. Industry professionals seeking further knowledge.
Course Details:
This advanced 3D modeling course is dedicated on producing state of the art 3D models targeting a vast spectrum of fields like the games & movie production industries, product design, architectural visualization and more. At the beginning of the course the students will be expected to decide their target field of choice and through a series of step by step workshops create advanced level sceneries, vehicles, props, and products. The attendants will be extensively trained on a variety of modeling techniques that reflect the workflows used by professionals in AAA studios.
The course will be split in two parts. The first part is highly focused on researching a preselected theme. Attention to detail is a must, therefore, the students will begin their training with live demonstration sessions teaching them tips and tricks on how to use their research in order to build 3D concept models that will serve as mockups for scene scale and layout. These mockups will also be used as foundation blocks to design majestic environments, vehicles, functional products, interiors, exteriors, and more.
Commencing the second part of the course, the students will learn a plethora of professional approaches and workflows within a variety of 3D software applications. Depending on their field of choice, the students will be trained on advanced modeling techniques such as Low and High Resolution modeling, detailing within 3D sculpting applications, Topology, Level of Detail (LOD), UV Unwrapping, PBR Workflow, Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Atmospheric Effects, Depth of Field (DOF), Render Passes (AOVs), Linear Workflow, photorealistic techniques and more.
By the end of the course a professional portfolio will be created that can contain complete sceneries, products, vehicles, props and more, that will be presented in an appropriate manner, based on the students’ targeted field of choice. For example, movie based students will render several multi-angled images or camera walkthroughs along with render passes, and composite the final renders using advanced post-production techniques to enhance the visuals. On the other hand, game based students will import their final models within a game engine and export interactive walkthroughs or turntables.
Skills Acquired in the Course:
- Research
- Brain Storming
- Idea Generation
- Polygonal modeling
- NURBS modeling
- Environment Modeling
- Retopology
- UV Unwrapping
- Baking
- Texturing
- Lighting
- Materials / Shading
- Rendering
- Compositing
Fees:
Our courses are provided in a variety of ways to offer the best possible training experience to students and professionals, therefore, please contact us to discuss your options and get the most recent fees and discount offers available.
Join the 3D Modeling – General Focus course today and study professional workflows and techniques required by the industry, from day one! Available in Cyprus (Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, Pafos, Famagusta) and online globally.
ENROLL NOW! Download the form here!
3D ANIMATION (LEVEL 2)
3D Animation (Level 2)
(Prior knowledge required: 3D Animation Level 1 / 3D Modeling Level 1)
Who is it for:
Anyone interested into learning advanced 3D modeling and animation techniques and building a professional portfolio for job applications in either the Game Design or the Movie production industry. Anyone interested into or coming from a related course field like Concept Art, Illustration, 3D Modeling for Characters and Environments, Game Design, Film Production, Visual Effects and more on an undergraduate Bachelor (BA Hons) Degree level. University students or graduates form similar Bachelor (BA Hons) or Master’s Degree courses who aim to level up their skills fast. Industry professionals seeking further knowledge.
Course Details:
The Level 2 of the 3D Animation production course is an intense course focusing solely on creating a short animated sequence based on a script. The aim is to teach the students the complete production workflow used by professionals in studios for producing an animated film or animated shots in live action films. The course is divided in three stages, pre- production, production, and post-production. During the preproduction stage the students are expected to design 2-3 finalized characters and come up with a short script that includes character interaction and dialogue. In addition the students will be required to design the environments where the animated sequences will take place. A storyboard will be created and an animatic will be produced using recorded dialogue, sound effects and music based on the script.
The production stage of this 3D Animation course will be split into two phases, the technical and the animation phase. Even though this is not a dedicated 3D Modeling course, the technical part of this course will teach the attendants advanced workflows regarding 3D modeling techniques that are required to properly model characters for 3D animation purposes along with all their props. A series of professional tips and tricks sessions will also be provided teaching effective workflows that will help the students with any technical issues they may need to overcome. The students will also get live step by step training for UV layouts, texturing, shading, lighting and rigging techniques in order to get their characters ready for the second section of the production stage; animation.
Once the animation phase commences, a series of live workshops will teach the students how to properly animate their characters in their shots, emphasizing on making the models look as believable living and breathing characters on screen. The students will then be expected to animate all their shot sequences according to their script. Specific techniques will be demonstrated aiming to aid the students animating their characters as seamlessly as possible to a high polished state of the art standard, as produced by AAA studios around the world.
Finally, at the post-production stage of this 3D Animation course the students will render out their animated sequences frame by frame using both GPU and CPU renderers. Following with compositing and editing workshops, the students will learn how to composite all the render passes exported during the rendering stage and combine all their animated sequences along with their recorded sound effects, dialogue and music into one cohesive and coherent short film. Lastly, the students will receive dedicated training in the area of post-production effects to enhance the appeal of their short films as well as designing animated title sequences at the beginning and ending of their films.
Skills Acquired in the Course:
- Research
- Brain Storming
- Idea Generation
- Storytelling
- Storyboarding Ideas
- Polygonal modeling
- NURBS modeling
- Character Modeling
- Environment Modeling
- UV Unwrapping
- Baking
- Texturing
- Rigging
- Animation
- Lip Sync
- Lighting
- Materials / Shading
- Rendering
- Compositing
Fees:
Our courses are provided in a variety of ways to offer the best possible training experience to students and professionals, therefore, please contact us to discuss your options and get the most recent fees and discount offers available.
Join the 3D Animation course today and study professional workflows and techniques required by the industry, from day one! Available in Cyprus (Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, Pafos, Famagusta) and online globally.
ENROLL NOW! Download the form here!