• Introduction to Photoshop
• Understanding Workspace
• Creating a New Image
• Understanding Resolution and Pixels
• Understanding Color Modes
• Importance of CMYK in Printing
• Viewing of Image
• Zooming and Scrolling Images
• Print Size and Actual Pixels
• Different types of Screen Modes
• Working with Rulers and Guides
• Opening Images
• Working with Adobe Bridge
• Compositing Images
• Working with Selections
• Tools
• Color Range
• Adding Subtracting, Intersecting Selections
• Modifying Selections
• Transforming Selections
• Moving Selected Pixels using Move tool
• Concept of Layers
• Transforming Layers
• Arranging Layers
• Setting Transparency of Layers
• Selecting Multiple Layers
• Locking and Hiding Layers
• Creating a Blank Layer
• Deleting Layers
• Saving Images
• Different Types of File Format – PSD, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF
• Cropping an Image
• Painting in Photoshop
• Using Color/Swatch Palettes, Color Picker and Eyedropper
• Brush, Pencil, Erasers, Pattern Stamp
• Setting Transparency for Painting Tools
• Creating Brushes and Patterns (By Defining Pattern and by Pattern Maker)
• Working with Libraries
• Adjusting brush’s properties with Brush Palette
• Changing the color images by using Color Replacing Tool
• Filling Color
• Solid Color
• Working with Gradient
• Gradient Library
• Creating and Editing Gradient
• Transparency
• Retouching in Photoshop
• Working with Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, Spot Healing Brush, Patch Tool
• Removing Red Eye from an Image
• Color Correcting tools
• Blurring, Sharpening and Smudging an Image
• Using Smudge tool as a Painting tool
• Working with History Brush and History Palette
• History Brush and Art History
• Setting Source for History Brush
• Creating new Snapshots
• Adding Text
• Differences between Type Tools and Type Mask Tools
• About Point Text and Paragraph Text
• Formatting Text and Paragraph
• Creating Warped Text
• Working with Vector Shapes
• Differentiating Vector and Raster Objects
• Using Shape Tools
• Creating User Defined Vector Objects Using Pen Tool
• Parts of a Vector Object
• Anchor Point
• Path
• Bezier Curve
• Working with Path Palette
• Converting and Text into Path
• Applying Styles to Layers
• Using Style Presets
• Creating and Saving New Styles
• Creating Layer Groups
• Applying Effects to Images
• Blurring, Sharpening Images
• Reducing Noise
• Distorting Images
• Artistic and Painting Effects
• Understanding Other Filters
• Working with additional Plug-ins
• Adjusting the Color Tone of the Image
• Changing the Mode of Image
• Understanding the terms Shadows, Highlight, Midtones, Hue, Saturation, Exposure, Histograms
• Working with Adjustment Layers
• Working with Masking
• Editing in Quick Mask Mode
• Understanding Layer Mask and Vector Mask
• Understanding Clipping Mask and Clipping Path
• Working with Channels
• Resizing and Rotating Images
• Changing Images Size, Canvas Size
• Understanding Re sampling
• Automating Tasks with Actions and Batch
• Other Automation Tasks
• Creating Contact Sheet
• Creating Panorama with Photo merge
• Creating a Web Photo Gallery
• Scanning Images
• Creating Registration Marks and Crop Marks
• Fine Tuning Photoshop Using Preferences
• Understanding Scratch Disk

ASSIGNMENTS FOR PHOTOSHOP

• Restoring Images
• Visiting Card
• ID Cards
• Brochures
• Ads / Flyers
• Magazine Covers
• Certificates
• Hoardings
• Setting double side / Folding Works

• Introduction to Illustrator
• Importance of Vector Arts in Digital Imaging
• Understanding Workspace
• Creating New Artworks
• Viewing the Art Board
• Zooming and Panning
• Working with Navigator
• Screen Modes
• Working with Rulers and Guides
• Creating Objects
• By Dragging and By Numeric Entry
• Applying Color
• Fill and Stroke
• Color & Swatches Palettes
• Filling Color with Live Paint
• Selecting &Transforming Objects
• Saving and Loading Selections
• Locking and Hiding Objects
• Grouping Objects
• Drawing with Brush & Pencil Tool
• Changing Brush Style
• Creating New Brushes
• Changing objects shape using Brush & Pencil Tool
• Viewing Artwork in Preview Mode and Outline Mode
• Understanding Tools for Transformation
• Working with Transparency
• Blending Mode and Opacity
• Opacity Mask
• Working with Text
• Adding text
• Normally
• Inside an Object
• Over a Path
• Formatting Character and Paragraph
• Tab setting
• Text Wrapping
• Working with Glyphs
• Threading Text
• Converting Text to Paths
• Working with Images
• Placing
• Tracing
• Masking
• Working with Links Palette
• Working with Symbols
• Tools for Adjusting Symbol’s Properties
• Creating New Symbols
• Working with Gradient
• Applying
• Modifying and Creating
• Working with Mesh
• Blending Objects
• Blend Tool
• Specifying Options
• Releasing
• Cutting Vector Objects
• Tools for Cutting
• Eraser
• Knife
• Scissor
• Pathfinder Palette
• Applying Illustrator Effects
• Using Graphic Style Library
• Defining new Style
• Working with Appearance Palette
• Understanding Difference between Effects and Filters
• Analyzing Templates
• Preparing Files for Printing
• Creating Registration Marks
• Creating Crop Marks
• Saving as PDF
• Exporting Illustrator files to other file formats

ASSIGNMENTS FOR ILLUSTRATOR

• Creating Vector Drawings
• Visiting Card
• ID Cards
• Brochures
• Ads / Flyers
• Magazine Covers
• Certificates
• Hoardings
• CD / DVD Labels
• Setting double side / Folding Works
• Creating Realistic Objects with Mesh

• Introduction to InDesign
• Introducing the Workspace
• Overview
• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Using context menus
• Finding resources
• Getting to Know InDesign
• Viewing guides
• Adding text
• Working with styles
• Working with objects
• Working with object styles
• Creating a new Document
• Understanding Workspace
• Viewing/Zooming Document
• Normal Mode and Preview Mode
• Changing the Document Setup
• Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages
• Working with master pages
• Changing the size of pages
• Placing text and graphics
• Rulers, Guides, Grids
• Drawing Tools
• Applying Colors and Gradient
• Setting Transparency
• Working with objects
• Creating and editing text frames
• Creating and editing graphics frames
• Changing the shape of a frame
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects
• Transforming, Aligning, Arranging Objects
• Working with Text
• Flowing Text
• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Flowing text manually
• Flowing text automatically
• Editing Text
• Finding and changing a missing font
• Checking spelling
• Editing text by dragging and dropping
• Entering and importing text
• Concept of Containers and Contents
• Specifying Columns, Drop Caps etc
• Setting up Character and Paragraph Styles
• Paragraph Rules, Numbering and Bullets
• Inserting Special Characters
• Text Wrapping and Tab Setting
• Converting to Path
• Working with Type
• Working with Color
• Creating and applying colors
• Working with gradients
• Applying colors to text and objects
• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Changing fonts and type style
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Setting tabs
• Working with Styles
• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating and applying character styles
• Creating and applying object styles
• Importing and Modifying Graphics
• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Working with alpha channels
• Adjusting display quality
• Working with Images
• Importing
• Masking
• Replacing
• Editing & Updating
• Adding Effects
• Creating Tables
• Formatting a table
• Adding graphics to table cells
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Working with Tables
• Basics of Tables
• Alternating Fills and Strokes
• Working with Columns & Guides
• Concept of Bleed & Slug
• Inserting and Deleting Pages

Assignment

• Letter pad
• Working with Master Pages
• Working with Buttons
• Inserting Hyperlinks and Bookmarks
• Preparing Files for Printing
• Creating Crop Marks and Registration Marks
• Exporting to PDF
• Preflighting and Packaging
• Creating PDFs

• Introduction to Corel Draw
• Understanding Vector and Raster Objects
• Understanding Workspace
• Property Bar
• Tool Bars
• Docker
• Creating New Document
• Modifying Document Properties
• Viewing Documents
• Zooming, Scrolling and Print Preview
• Creating Objects
• Modifying Objects using Property Bar
• Applying Colors
• Creating Free form shapes
• Applying Fills
• Fountain Fill
• Pattern Fill
• Postscript Fill
• Understanding Smart Fill
• Applying Strokes
• Converting Objects to Curve
• Editing Objects with Shape Tool
• Breaking Objects Apart
• Working with text
• Artistic and Paragraph Text
• Formatting Text
• Creating Text along paths
• Inserting Symbol Characters
• Tab settings and Column Settings for Paragraph Text
• Spell Checking
• Working with Images
• Importing
• Tracing
• Masking
• Applying Bitmap Effects to Images
• Working with Interactive Tools
• Creating Objects using Interactive Mesh
• Distorting Objects
• Transforming Objects using Free Transform Tool
• Creating Multiple Objects using ‘Step and Repeat’
• Cutting Objects
• Aligning and Distributing objects
• Modifying Objects using ‘Shaping’ Options
• Inserting Pages
• Analyzing Templates
• Preparing Files for Printing
• Working with ‘Print’ Dialog
• Creating Registration Marks
• Creating Crop Marks
• Publishing to PDF
• Exporting Corel Draw files to other file formats
• New! Native 64-bit support
• New! Multi-core processor support
• New! Multiple trays in Corel CONNECT
• You can keep multiple trays open in Corel CONNECT X6
• New! Search capability in Corel CONNECT
• New! Smart Carver
• New! Shape tools
• Using the Smart Carver
• New! Create clip mask
• New! Pass Through Merge Mode
• New! Integrated web development
• New! Drag-and-drop web design
• New & Enhanced! Content
• Using the Smear tool
• docker
• Adobe Plug-in support:
• New! Complex script support
• New! Page numbering
• New & Enhanced! Master Layers
• New! Styles engine and docker
• New! Color Styles
• New! Color harmonies
• New! Timeline Editor

ASSIGNMENTS FOR COREL DRAW

• Creating Vector Drawings
• Visiting Card
• ID Cards
• Brochures
• Ads / Flyers
• Magazine
• News Letters
• Certificates
• Hoardings
• CD / DVD Labels
• Setting double side / Folding Works
• Creating Realistic Objects with Mesh
• Setting double side / Folding Works

• Example Lightroom workflow
• Configuring your computer for Lightroom.
• Installing Lightroom.
• Lightroom Fundamentals
• Saving and backing up your work
• Essential troubleshooting
• The Lightroom workspace
• How to ensure accurate color for your photos
• IMPORT: Indexing photos and videos with Lightroom catalogs
• Overview of Import workflow
• What to do before importing
• Importing files for the first time: Add
• Copy files from a camera
• What happens during an import?
• The Import window
• FROM: Select a source
• Import method
• Main preview area
• TO: My Catalog or folder Destination
• File Handling
• File Renaming
• Apply During Import
• Destination
• Import Presets
• Show fewer options: The Compact Import Window
• Import from Another Catalog
• Tethered Capture
• Tethered Capture Setup
• Auto Import
• Next steps
• LIBRARY: Managing your photos with Lightroom
• Edit a shoot
• Working in Library
• Catalog panel
• Library previews
• Navigator
• Library View Modes
• Grid view
• Selections: Choosing the photos to work with
• Rotating and flipping photos
• Stacks: Grouping items together
• Loupe view
• Compare view
• Survey view
• Using the Secondary Display with Library
• Folders panel: Work directly with folders on your hard drives
• Managing photos and video files in Library
• Synchronize Folder
• Collections: Organize things however you like
• Collections panel
• Quick Collection
• Smart Collections
• Output Module Collections
• Collection Sets
• Managing the Collections panel
• Introduction to Publish Services
• Attributes: Tag photos with identifying marks
• Filters: Show photos and videos based on criteria
• Example Filter workflows
• Quick Develop
• Keywords: Tag your photos for search
• The Key wording panel
• Keyword List
• Working with metadata
• The Metadata panel
• Metadata presets
• Metadata Status
• Using the Painter
• Working with video in Lightroom
• Example video workflow
• Next steps
• DEVELOP: Making your photos look their best
• Example Develop workflow
• Make a plan for processing
• The Develop workspace
• Understanding the Process Version
• Default and Auto settings
• Histogram
• The Basic panel: Essential adjustments for every photo
• Tone Curve: Modify tones based on ranges of luminance
• Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT)
• HSL / Color / B & W: Adjust color by range
• Split Toning: Apply creative color treatments
• Detail: Fine-tune sharpening and noise reduction
• Lens Corrections: Fix image problems caused by the lens
• Effects: Add vignettes and simulate film grain
• Camera Calibration: Precisely control raw image rendering
• Before/After
• Crop Overlay: Cropping and straightening your photos
• Spot Removal: Retouching photos in Lightroom
• Heal Dust Spots
• Red Eye Correction
• Local Adjustments: Dodging, burning, and so much more
• Working with Graduated Filters
• Apply a graduated filter
• Working with Radial Filters
• Apply a Radial Filter
• Working with Adjustment Brushes
• Navigator panel
• Presets: Apply multiple Develop adjustments with one click
• Set Default
• Snapshots
• History: Track changes and go back to any point
• Virtual copies: Create multiple versions of a single photo
• Apply settings from one photo to others
• Soft proofing
• Soft proofing a photo
• Converting color photos to black and white
• Next steps
• EXPORT: Creating new copies from Lightroom
• Basic export workflow
• Export methods
• What to do before exporting
• Email photos
• Working in the Export window
• Export to: Export Location
• File Naming
• Video
• File Settings
• Image Sizing
• Output sharpening
• Metadata
• Watermarking
• Working in the Watermark Editor
• Post-Processing
• Export presets
• Burn a CD/DVD
• Export plug-ins.
• Publish Services: Synchronize your photo collections
• Publish to Flickr.
• Publish to Hard Drive.
• Changing Publish Services settings
• Edit in other programs
• Edit in Photoshop.
• Open as Photoshop Smart Objects.
• Next steps.
• MAP: Plot your photo locations with GPS coordinates.
• Working with photos that already have GPS data.
• Adding GPS coordinates to photos using the map.
• Adding GPS coordinates to photos using a track log.
• Saved Locations.
• Map display.
• Location Filter.
• Map Toolbar.
• Sync Metadata
• Keeping your location data private.
• Next steps.
• BOOK: Design and order photo books in Lightroom
• Publish a book.
• Create a new book with a custom layout.
• Preview panel.
• Collections: Create and manage Saved Books
• Book previews
• Book Toolbar.
• Book Filmstrip.
• Book Preferences
• Book Settings
• About Book templates
• Auto Layout: Create a book with one click.
• Working in the Auto Layout Preset Editor.
• Page panel: Add or change pages.
• Cell panel.
• Text panel: Add text to photos and pages
• Type: Style your text.
• Background panel.
• About covers.
• Create Saved Book.
• Send Book to Blurb.
• Next steps.
• SLIDESHOW: Present your photos and videos on screen.
• Make a Slideshow.
• Template Browser.
• Slideshow Toolbar.
• Preview and Play Your Slideshow.
• Impromptu Slideshow.
• Create Saved Slideshow.
• Exporting Slideshows.
• Next steps.
• PRINT: Make professional prints yourself or at a lab.
• Making a print
• Template Browser.
• Page Setup.
• Main preview area.
• Print Toolbar.
• Layout Style.
• Single Image / Contact Sheet.
• Image Settings
• Picture Package
• Image Settings.
• Rulers, Grid & Guides.
• Custom Package.
• Print Job
• Print and Printer
• Print to JPEG File
• Create Saved Print
• Print troubleshooting
• Next steps.
• WEB: Create browser-based photo galleries.
• Build a Lightroom Web Gallery.
• Preview panel.
• Template Browser.
• Main preview area.
• Web Toolbar.
• Layout Style.
• Customize your Web gallery.
• Site Info.
• Color Palette.
• Image Info.
• Output Settings.
• Upload Settings.
• Create Saved Web Gallery.
• Preview in Browser.
• Export
• Next steps.
• WORKING WITH LIGHTROOM CATALOGS:
• Advanced photo management techniques.
• Catalog Settings.
• Catalog backups.
• Maintaining catalog integrity.
• Upgrading catalogs.
• Using multiple catalogs.
• Export as Catalog.
• Import from Catalog.
• Working with Lightroom on multiple computers.
• Road Trip Workflow.
• Next steps.
• Favorite Shortcuts.

Assignments for Light Room Photo editing

• Album Designing
• Normal Image Editing of an Individual Person
• Normal Image Editing of a Group

• THEORY
• Concept of Animation
• Animation movie making
• Principles of animation
• Introduction to digital animation
• Pre-Production
• Production
• Post Production

• Introduction to Animate
• Animate workflow and workspace Stage and Tools panel
• Document Properties
• Tools
• Creating and managing documents
• Working with graphics and images
• Working with timelines
• Creating animation
• Working with scenes Using symbols, instances, and library assets
• Working with Symbols
• Creating graphics & Animating graphics, editing graphics
• Creating Buttons, Different kind of buttons,
• Creating interactivity with buttons
• Different modes of buttons
• Frame by frame & frame to frameWee2d animation basics
• Creating Movie clips
• Features of a Movie clip
• Adding symbols to a movie clip
• Action script in symbols
• Integration of symbols
• Creating Interactive elements
• Scripting in advance
• Setting up scenes
• Primary & secondary animation
• Inserting Media Elements
• Working with text
• Working with sound
• Working with video
• Web banner advertisement
• Creating and publishing Animate Video
• Concept of Action Script
• Publishing Animate content
• Exporting from Animate

Assignments for Adobe Animate: Animation strip, Web animation, presentation CD

Introduction

We learn the core concept behind motion capture and how Character Animator is used in contrast to frame-by-frame or keyframe animation.

• • The Structure and Components of a Character
  • Understanding Scenes
  • Recording and Live Streaming Concepts
• Sketching Out the Character
• Building the Face and Head
• Developing the Eyes
• Phonemes and Visemes
• Building the Body & Adding Gestures
• Checking the Hierarchy and Structure
• The Best Way To Test and Fix Problems
• Handles, Behaviors, Draggables & Sticks
• Adding Key Triggers & Sequences
• Scenes and Recordings
• Creating a Facial Performance
• Arm and Body Performance
• The Head
• The Face Template
• Creating Face Parts
• Head Rigging and Behaviors Pt. 1
• Head Rigging and Behaviors Pt. 2
• Mouth Shapes
• Creating Your Own Face from Scratch
• The Scene Menu and General Transformations
• Characterizer: The Alternate Way to Make a Face
• The Body
• Designing A Body Pt. 1
• Designing A Body Pt. 2
• Introduction to Body Rigging
• Body Rigging 2: Hinging and Welding Parts
• Body Rigging 3: Nutcracker Jaw
• Body Rigging 4: Dangles and Draggables
• Body Rigging 5: Breathing
• Body Rigging 6: Walk Cycles
• Body Rigging 7: Walk Cycle Options
• Hip + Shoulder Sway and Pose Emphasis
• Arm IK
• Cycles, Triggers and Behaviors
• Swap Sets Pt. 1
• Swap Sets Pt. 2
• PNG Sequences
• Photographic Puppets, Head Turns and Motion Triggers
• Puppets from Photos Pt 1: Using Lightroom
• Puppets from Photos Pt 2: Using Photoshop
• Puppets from Photos Pt 3: Photoshop Details
• Puppets from Photos Pt 4: The Body
• Puppets from Photos Pt 5: Head Turner
• Designing a Character from Drawing to Puppet
• Initial Drawing
• Working in Illustrator Pt. 1
• Working in Illustrator Pt 2
• From Illustrator to Photoshop
• From Photoshop to Character Animator
• Backgrounds in Character Animator
• Designing A Background in Adobe Illustrator
• Preparing The Background in Adobe Photoshop
• Backgrounds as Character Animator Puppets
• Cycle Layer Details
• Using Fader On Backgrounds
• Wrap Up
• Copying and Pasting a Performance
• Copying and Pasting Behaviors
• Recording and Exporting Walkthrough
• Making A Puppet File
• Final Thoughts
• Exporting

• Basics of 3D modeling
• Different type of 3D models
• Exterior & interior
• Anatomy
• Life sketching
• Object modeling
• Developing exterior
• Setting garden & landscape of an interior
• Create furniture & home materials
• Developing interior, placing furniture
• Low polygon char. Sketching & developing for game
• Color separation & mixing
• How to make quality textures
• Texture selection & apply
• UV mapping & advanced texturing
• How to take quality output
• Maps & materials
• How to apply textures in different objects
• Textures editing, color adjusting
• Types of textures & shades
• Different type skins
• How to render high quality map
• Advanced modeling concepts
• Concept of expressions
• Reference for high polygon human model (front side)
• Detail (head, Body)
• Detail- hand
• Detail- chest, wings, shoulder etc…
• Detail- leg
• Detail- feet & thumps
• Muscle structure
• Create eyeball, teeth, ear & tongue
• Create cloth & hair
• Motor vehicle designing
• Detail
• Detailed texture of vehicle
• Colors make feelings
• How to influence light to textures
• Create realistic skin with photographs
• Convert models in quality map
• Realistic textures for cloth & hair
• Final touch to textures
• Different type camera angles & shot
• BG drawing
• BG painting
• BG developing
• BG balancing & Camera fixing
• Layout designing
• Posing
• Mixing characters in layout
• Quality format for rendering
• Lighting concepts
• Basic Lighting
• Physiology of light & Objective of light
• Creating depth
• Three-point light
• Shadow science
• Lighting effects
• Lighting an object
• Interior & Exterior lighting
• Lighting a room
• Environment light
• Animating lights
• Concept of Rigging
• Concept of different type bones
• Hierarchy of human and animal body
• Attaching bones with body
• Functions of human body
• Explain muscles
• How to make organic objects
• Motion science
• Introduction to production and animation
• Explain Animation Principles with Action
• Graph editor
• Object animation
• Explain different types of personality of an object
• Title animation
• Camera
• Creating walk through
• Introduce various types of Characters and its controls
• Types of walk
• Body balance
• Run
• Jump
• Walk cycle
• Character Animation
• Detailed study of characters
• Controls
• Moving hold
• In between
• Polishing (Key filtering)
• Continue -Blocking, Moving hold, In between, Polishing
• Introduction to lips
• Introduction to facial expression

Assignments for 3ds Max: Modeling (Inorganic & Character)

Texturing & Lighting

Rigging & Animation (Object & Character)

Assignments Details

Assignments 1: 3D Modeling & Texturing

3D model of Concept Art with texture

An Interior or Exterior Model with texture and light

Assignments 2: Animation

Character Animation

Face animation (any expression) with detailed face texture

Introduction to Visual Effects and Blender

• The History of Visual Effects
• 3D: General Principles
• Downloading, Installing, and Setting Up Blender
• Getting Around 3D
• Making and Rendering Your First Scenes

Editing Objects

• Basic Principle: Data blocks
• Introduction to Edit Mode
• Separating and Joining Objects
• Object Modifiers
• Converting to Mesh from Curve

Texturing, Principles, and Practice

• How to Visually Break Down Materials
• Materials, Textures, and How They Get onto Surfaces
• UV Mapping Basics
• Textures in More Depth
• More Complicated Procedural Textures with Nodes
• Material Nodes

Further Texturing and Rendering in Cycles

• Three-Point Lighting Setup
• Advanced Textures
• Camera Effects and Properties
• Cycles Renderer and Its Settings

Sculpting and Baking Normal Maps

• Preparation for Sculpting
• Sculpting Detail
• Baking
• Retopologizing
• Automatic Tessellation and 3D Sketching

Compositing

• Breakdown of a Scene
• Buildup of a Scene
• Color Correction and Texture Editing
• Sweetening and VFX

Basic Animation—Camera and Objects

• Concepts of Animation
• Constraints for Automating Animation
• Animated Textures
• Output to Video Files

Camera Mapping and 2.5D

• Parallax Described and Demonstrated
• 5D Plate Preparation
• 5D When?
• Web and Interactive—2.5D/3D GIF and VR Imagery

Tracking and Replacement

• Tracking and Replacement Principles
• Tracking—Practical Examples
• Tracking—Addition and Replacement
• Use of Green-Screen (Monochromatic Environment Removal)

Animation of Characters

• The Armature
• Bones
• Poses and Keyframes
• Tips for Animation

Particles and Fluids

• Particle Basics
• Setting Up Particle Systems
• Texturing of Particles
• Particles as Hair

Video Editing and Addition of Sound

• Working with Sound/Video Sequence Editor
• Compositor
• Sound Effects
• Final Output

• Introduction to post production
• Concepts of Visual effects & Compositing
• Compositing tools
• Concepts of Visual effects
• How to work in film industry
• Difference between old and new movies
• Techniques used in old & new movies
• About matte painting (Basics)
• Matte painting practice
• Composition with matte painted file
• Classes for visual effects
• Introduction to software
• View Port & Tools
• Apply basic & advanced tools
• Introduction to live action movies
• Brushes & color palette
• Wire removal (Basics)
• Wire removal practice
• Show examples
• Rotoscopy (Masking)
• Chroma techniques
• Blue matte cutting
• Trial effects
• Live action movie
• Tracking
• About camera and object tracking
• Color theory
• Lights
• Color correction

Project: Compositing & VFX

The Nuke Interface

• Navigating the interface
• Building Node Graphs
• Creating key frames
• The Curve Editor

Transformations and Animation

• Keyframe animation
• Math expressions and linking
• Creating animated elements
• Correcting for lens distortion

Color and Rotoscoping

• Nuke’s color management
• Color correcting composites
• Rotoscoping
• Masking operations

Compositing CGI and Channels

• Mastering Nuke’s channels system
• Multi-pass CG compositing
• Adding motion blur
• Adding depth of field

Keying

• Lumakeys
• All four of Nuke’s chromakeyers
• Proper use of Addmix and Keymix nodes
• How to merge multiple keys

Tracking, Warping and Retiming

• The Tracker node
• How to do a match move
• Spline warp and Grid warp
• Retiming clips with optical flow

3D Basics

• Navigating Nuke’s 3D workspace
• Working with geometric primitives
• Projecting texture maps
• Rendering 3D scenes

3D Animation and Shaders

• Animating 3D geometry
• Deforming 3D geometry
• Adding lights, shaders and materials to geometry
• Normals relighting

Production Workflows

• Adding a 3D background to a CG render
• Camera projection
• Rig removal
• Set extension

Camera Tracking

• How to do camera tracking
• Converting point clouds to meshes
• Compensating for lens distortion
• Getting 3D information to the 2D composite

Planar Tracker and Particles

• How to do planar tracking
• How to use planar tracking results
• Using Nuke’s 3D particle system
• Creating your own particles

Advanced 3D Nodes

• Deep compositing
• Alembic geometry
• Modeling 3D geometry from a 2D scene
• Creating point clouds from CG re

Getting Ready to Render with V-Ray

• Installing V-Ray
• Setting up V-Ray
• Locating V-Ray’s tools and features
• V-Ray’s image-saving options

Critical V-Ray Concepts

• Image sampling explained
• Understanding subdivs
• Using the DMC Sampler
• Overview of color mapping
• Understanding the color-mapping modes

Key Lighting Tools

• Introduction to lighting in V-Ray
• Dealing with lighting problems
• Adding a spherical fill light
• Creating a mesh light
• Creating a skylight effect
• Working with the dome light

Global Illumination

• Global illumination (GI) explained
• Understanding primary and secondary bounces
• How irradiance mapping works
• Using irradiance mapping, part 1
• Using irradiance mapping, part 2
• How light cache works
• Using light cache
• Understanding brute force GI
• Using brute force GI

The V-Ray Materials

• Introduction to V-Ray-specific materials
• Creating a diffuse color
• Making reflective materials
• Blurring reflections
• Making clear and colored glass
• Creating a translucency effect

Quality Control with Image Sampling

• Introduction to image sampling
• Using the Fixed-Rate sampler
• How to use the Adaptive DMC sampler
• Working with the Adaptive Subdivision sampler
• Comparing image-sampling renders

The Physical Workflow

• The physical workflow explained
• Working with V-Ray Sun and V-Ray Sky
• Controlling the V-Ray Physical Camera

V-Ray’s Effects Tools

• Depth of field: V-Ray Physical Camera
• Depth of field: using a perspective viewport
• Creating a motion blur effect
• Generating caustic effects
• Using V-Ray Fur plugin
• Stereoscopic 3D rendering

Using Render Elements

• Render elements workflow
• Preparing to composite
• Compositing V-Ray elements
• Putting extra elements to work
• Post-lighting a scene

V-Ray RT

• Overview of V-Ray RT
• Demonstrating the RT workflow
• Conclusion

• Introduction to post production
• Concepts of editing & Compositing
• Linear & Linear editing
• Editing tools & software
• Editing software
• Rough cutting
• Rhythmic editing
• Speed, duration & Timing
• File formats
• Tools & Menu
• Crop, Slide, Roll
• Creation of cultist
• Video effects
• Video transitions
• Working with audio
• Exporting the video
• Concepts of effects
• Plug-ins
• Working with images
• Titles
• Scroll & Crawl
• Working with animations
• Keying & other compositing methods
• How to work in film industry
• Difference between old and new movies
• Techniques used in old & new movies

Assignment: Video editing & Rendering

• Audio synchronization
• Adding video effects & filters

Editing

• A movie trailer
• Title work

Introduction to Adobe Audition

• ✓ New features summary
• ✓ System requirements | Audition
• ✓ Customizing workspaces
• ✓ Finding and customizing shortcuts
• ✓ Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor

Workspace and setup

• ✓ Control surface support
• ✓ Viewing, zooming, and navigating audio
• ✓ Customizing workspaces
• ✓ Connecting to audio hardware in Audition
• ✓ Customizing and saving application settings

Digital audio fundamentals

• ✓ Understanding sound
• ✓ Digitizing audio

Importing, recording, and playing

• ✓ Multichannel audio workflow
• ✓ Create, open, or import files in Adobe Audition
• ✓ Importing with the Files panel
• ✓ Extracting audio from CDs
• ✓ Supported import formats
• ✓ Navigate time and playing audio in Adobe Audition
• ✓ Recording audio
• ✓ Monitoring recording and playback levels

Applying effects

• ✓ Enabling CEP extensions
• ✓ Effects controls
• ✓ Applying effects in the Waveform Editor
• ✓ Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
• ✓ Adding third party plugins
• ✓ Notch Filter effect
• ✓ Fade and Gain Envelope effects (Waveform Editor only)
• ✓ Manual Pitch Correction effect (Waveform Editor only)
• ✓ Graphic Phase Shifter effect
• ✓ Doppler Shifter effect (Waveform Editor only)

Effects reference

• ✓ Apply amplitude and compression effects to audio
• ✓ Delay and echo effects
• ✓ Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) for Audition
• ✓ ADOBE AUDITION iv

Contents

• ✓ Filter and equalizer effects
• ✓ Modulation effects
• ✓ Reduce noise and restore audio
• ✓ Reverb effects
• ✓ How to use special effects with Audition
• ✓ Stereo imagery effects
• ✓ Time and pitch manipulation effects
• ✓ Generate tones and noise

Mixing multitrack sessions

• ✓ Creating remix
• ✓ Multitrack Editor overview
• ✓ Basic multitrack controls
• ✓ Multitrack routing and EQ controls
• ✓ Arrange and edit multitrack clips with Audition
• ✓ Looping clips
• ✓ How to match, fade, and mix clip volume with Audition
• ✓ Automating mixes with envelopes
• ✓ Hardware controllers and recordable automation
• ✓ Multitrack clip stretching

Video and surround sound

• ✓ Working with video applications
• ✓ Importing video and working with video clips
• ✓1 surround sound

Saving and exporting

• ✓ Save and export audio files
• ✓ Viewing and editing XMP metadata