| Available to Graphic Design, Web Design, Multimedia Arts, and Digital Arts students in Master's Certificate programs
This concentration gives students comprehensive, hands-on experience building characters and scenes using Maya. Students study polygon modeling, UV mapping, animation, and lighting.
Requirements: Students
entering this track must have Autodesk Maya 7 or 8 and experience in Adobe Photoshop. Although the free PLE version is acceptable, the full or educational version is highly recommended. Got
a question about this program? Ask admissions@sessions.edu.
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Maya Basics
If you're looking to create video game artwork, look no farther Autodesk Maya. Maya combines powerful tools for the major areas in 3D content creation: modeling, animation, texturing, and rendering. Many of today's top video games are created in Maya, from characters, to models, levels
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Tiling Textures
Tiling textures, the design of repeated textures for 3D environments, is an essential part of any game artist's job. So essential is the task, any game artist who is new on the block is likely to spend the majority of his or her time creating tiling textures ... more
4242 Character Animation
Ready to put your creativity in motion? Learn how to apply the classic principles of character animation to 3D models using Autodesk Maya. Learn 14 principles of animation ranging from squash and stretch and anticipated movement to the expression of personality and thought. Using Maya’s high-level animation tools, you’ll gain insight into the professional animator’s approach, learning to work with hierarchical characters, create effective poses, properly time your shots, develop advanced walk cycles, and even make your characters think .... more
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Game Lighting and Color
Lightness and darkness are constantly battling for their place in the world. Who'll win? As a lighting artist, you decide. A mastery of lighting and color is the mark of the true game art professional. Lighting can set the mood in a dungeon, help a player notice a hidden power-up, make a character look menacing ... more
8065 Game Analysis and Criticism
Learn how to analyze and criticize video games, identifying key elements in a game and making intelligent judgments about whether games succeed or fail. The ability to think, talk, and write about what makes games work is vital to making it in the game development industry. In this course, you’ll develop your critical and communication skills, learning how to recognize what art and gameplay features are important in a game, how to evaluate a game through its designer’s objectives, and what features the critics and players are looking for ... more |
