ANIMATOR (ANIMATION + GAMING) (Syllabus)
- Understand Animation Requirements
- Produce 3D Animation
- Conceptualize Creative Ideas for Production
- Produce Stop Motion Animation. Plan Tools and Workflow
- Maintain workplace health and safety
- Produce 2D Animation
- Descriptive guidelines to animation
- Familiarize with modelling
- Character sketching and drawing of human anatomy
- Production concepts and their applicability to each project
- The various techniques available for animating objects
- Understanding various elements that influence the final artwork
- Enact and emote
- Learn to create hook up poses and animation
- Generate inventive ideas and thoughts for creation using visualization and utilizing references from the concept artwork arranged by the creators, drawing from creative ability, acting, and performing
- Give priority to target audience, schedule, and show requirements, optimizing tools for the production
- Access timelines for production with respect to the production agenda
- Position the character with respect to the background and camera to make the desired animation
- Draw the key frame drawings to get a reference point for strong poses and incorporate audio or music assets
- Understand the concept of hook-up or transition from one scene to another
- Work with layers to get good perspective views
- Effectively work with the team and other departments (assets, lighting, and effects)
- Review the animation looking at the creative and design specifications along with the brief
- Meet quality standards (reducing iterations) so that they are delivered within time
- Use the principles of design, film-making, and 2D animation to create sequences and scenes
- Make films by applying principles of 3D animation and design
- Work on motion or performance capture studio
- Prototype pre-visualization making for review
- Critically review animation produced
- Apply 3D animation techniques like realistic 3D animation (keyframe animation plus motion capture)
- Animate stop motion characters
- Contribute creative ideas during the animation process
- Apply stop motion animation techniques
- Stop motion using Stop Motion Pro, apply stop motion animation techniques using Stop Motion Pro software
- Understand and comply with the organisation’s current health, safety, and security policies and procedures
- Understand the safe working practices pertaining to own occupation
- Understand the government norms and policies relating to health and safety, including emergency procedures for illness, accidents, fires, or others which may involve evacuation of the premises
- Identify the people responsible for health and safety in the workplace, including those to contact in case of an emergency
- Identify security signals e.g. fire alarms and places such as staircases, fire warden stations, first aid and medical rooms
- Identify aspects of your workplace that could cause potential risk to own and others' health and safety
- Ensure own personal health and safety, and that of others in the workplace through precautionary measures
- Identify and recommend opportunities for improving health, safety, and security to the designated person
- Identify and correct risks like illness, accidents, fires, or any other natural calamity safely and within the limits of individual’s authority