Visual Effects detailed syllabus for Information Technology (IT) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IT students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Information Technology 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IT 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to IT Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of visual effects is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ANIMATION BASICS 6 VFX production pipeline, Principles of animation, Techniques: Keyframe, kinematics, Full animation, limited animation, Rotoscoping, stop motion, object animation, pixilation, rigging, shape keys, motion paths.
Unit II
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Unit III
SPECIAL EFFECTS 6 Special Effects – props, scaled models, animatronics, pyrotechniques, Schufftan process, Particle effects – wind, rain, fog, fire
Unit IV
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Unit V
COMPOSITING 6 Compositing – chroma key, blue screen/green screen, background projection, alpha compositing, deep image compositing, multiple exposure, matting, VFX tools – Blender, Natron, GIMP.
Laboratory Experiments:
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- To implement animation in 2D / 3D following the principles and techniques
- To use CGI, color and light elements in VFX applications
- To create special effects using any of the state of the art tools
- To apply popular visual effects techniques using advanced tools
- To use compositing tools for creating VFX for a variety of applications
Text Books:
- Chris Roda, Real Time Visual Effects for the Technical Artist, CRC Press, 1st Edition, 2022.
- Steve Wright, Digital Compositing for film and video, Routledge, 4th Edition, 2017.
- John Gress, Digital Visual Effects and Compositing, New Riders Press, 1st Edition, 2014.
Reference Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Information Technology 6th Sem, visit IT 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Information Technology results, visit Anna University IT all semester results direct link.