HSX1989X Game Art Certificate
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Course Description
This nationally recognized Game Art online certificate program helps students gain the skills and knowledge to get started as a digital artist in today's fast-paced game development industry! This Game Art program builds technical and artistic skills in 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, and animation using Autodesk Maya and Photoshop. Challenging, practical projects put you through your paces, helping you develop a high-quality portfolio of game art. You will also experience mentoring and feedback from an industry-leading faculty of game art professionals. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers. 420 hours.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Construct 3D models in Autodesk Maya by creating and editing primitives by moving, rotating, scaling, and grouping them.
- Manipulate objects in Maya by selecting components, and rotating, scaling, and transforming them and using Boolean objects to combine or extrude shapes.
- Develop tiling textures for video games from reference photos or other source material.
- Test and apply texture tiles to 3D objects and environments and apply tiling textures to a range of maps commonly used in video games.
- Apply basic three-point lighting techniques in Maya and use shadows and highlights to affect emotion.
- Apply ambient, directional, spot, and point lights in Maya and modify their controls for position, intensity, and color.
- Develop and apply shaders that create realistically-lit surfaces with color, gloss, reflection, and other characteristics.
- Apply basic principles of animation with Maya such as squash and stretch, anticipation, and follow through to basic characters and objects.
- Use the Maya Graph Editor and Dope Sheet to create natural-looking, overlapping animated action.
- Develop a believable walk cycle and use posing within the cycle to create mood and personality.
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Course Fee: $5,895
To register, or for more information, contact the Division of Extended Learning at 1-800-NAT-UNIV ext. 8600.
