Course Highlights
Arena Certified Professional In Animation & Vfx Courses is a dual domain program that trains students end-to-end in all aspects of Animation & visual effects to make them job-ready professional.
It gives a thorough grounding in all the fundamentals & techniques of VFX, Animation – 2D and 3D, typography, digital filmmaking, FX, Dynamics & simulation and also trains on the latest technologies and tools used in the Animation and Visual Effects industry.
- Access to Creosouls: Share your creative portfolio with the world, get feedback from experts, find job opportunities and get hired.
- Instant student loan facility to fund your studies at Arena, with real time loan eligibility check & instant approval confirmation.
- Training in all aspects of 2D & 3D animation – from pre-production, production, to post-production
- Hands-on training on in-demand techniques like 2D digital animation, 3D motion graphics & crowd simulation
- Guidance to develop your professional portfolio & demo reel
- Opportunity to be a part of industry visits & workshops
- Guidance on regular projects
- Access to Onlinevarsity: Arena’s exclusive web portal that adds to your classroom learning experience
- Access to high-end studio infrastructure
Career Options
Arena Certified Professional In Animation & VFX produce designs, symbols, illustrations & photography for use in print & electronic publications and Internet publishing industries.
Join as:
- Layout Artist – Usually part of the preproduction and pre-visualization process, a layout artist, as the name suggests, lays the foundations for how the visuals will eventually look.
- Compositing Artist – Well done visual effects merge seamlessly with the rest of the background, and don’t distract the viewing experience at all.
- Lighting Artist – Lighting is one of the most crucial aspects of any film production – live action or animated.
- Rendering Artist – When it comes to VFX career opportunities in India, rendering artists are in high demand across major VFX studios and production houses.
- Roto Artist – A rotoscoping artist or roto artist has the difficult and imperative task of tracing all those areas of a frame where CG meets real life, in order to provide compositors with a framework from which to begin their work.
Career Support
- Industry interaction
- Job Fair
- Studio tours
- Career seminars
- Creative workshops
VFX Prime Modules
1st Semester
| Modules | Tools |
|---|---|
| Digital Design | Adobe Photoshop |
| Concepts of Design & Composition | – |
| Concepts of Cinematography & Photography | – |
| Lights, Colour & Perspectives | – |
| Digital Painting | Adobe Photoshop |
| Character Design | – |
| Anatomy – Clay Modeling & Animation | Stop Motion Pro |
| Audio-Video Editing | Adobe Audition CC/ Adobe Premier Pro CC |
| Storytelling & Script Writing | Final Draft |
| Storyboarding and Animatics | Storyboarder & Adobe Premier Pro CC |
| Application of 2D Animation Principles | Adobe Animate CC |
| Pre-Production Design Portfolio | – |
2nd Semester
| Modules | Tools |
|---|---|
| 3D Basics – Modeling to Animation | – |
| Digital Sculpting | ZBrush |
| Digital Modeling with Maya | Autodesk Maya |
| Texturing 3D Models with Maya | Autodesk Maya |
| Lighting Models with Maya | Autodesk Maya |
| Rigging 3D Models with Maya | Autodesk Maya |
| 3D Character Animation | Autodesk Maya |
| FX Dynamics & Simulation | XGen & RealFlow |
| Photogrammetry & 3D Printing | Agisoft Metashape / 3DF Zephyr |
| Working with Arnold Renderer | Arnold Render For Maya |
| Digital Compositing | Adobe After Effect |
| 3D Portfolio | – |
3rd Semester
| Modules | Tools |
|---|---|
| VFX Storytelling & 3D Pre-visualization | iClone |
| Introduction to Nuke | Nuke |
| Rotoscopy | Silhouette |
| Roto Paint & Wire removal | Nuke |
| Keying (Green/ Blue screen) | Nuke |
| Matte Painting | Nuke & Photoshop |
| Matchmoving | 3D Equalizer |
| VFX Compositing with Nuke | Nuke |
| VFX Portfolio | Project |