Indicative contents

• Basics of Character Design
  Approaching Design as an Artist, Design Style, Designing a Character, Finalizing your Design.
• Modeling Character
  Surface type, Creating Characters.
• Working in the 3D World
  Getting Around, Units and Scale, Grids and Snaps, Hide and Unhide, Freeze / Ghost, Groups.
• Navigation theory
  Collision, Depth cues, Interface Design, Backgrounds and lighting, Animation, Sound, Interactivity - animation: event model, Routing, Triggers, Timers, Engines, Key frame animation.
• Sound
  Ambient vs. specialized. Avatars: multi-user, Real-time human figure design and uses, Virtual community challenges, Implications and approaches.
   

Module Resources

• Essential reading
  1. Course Notes.
  2. George Maestri, Digital Character Animation 3, New Riders, 2006.
     
      
• Recommended Reading
  1. Giambruno, 3D Modeling Basics, 1996.