Certified Graphic Designer
Basics of Drawing, Painting & Graphic Design, Adobe
Photoshop, Corel Draw, Adobe Flash
Introduction
This course is designed to develop a strong foundation of the
students for developing powerful visual communications. Students
will learn to develop design concepts, drawing and design
techniques and application of software like Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Adobe Aftereffects, Celtix and
Anime Studio Pro in creating corporate identity, websites,
posters, catalogs, 2D animations etc. The course will take the
students through a proper workflow and explain steps involved in
developing a 2D animation movie.
Brief Contents
- Basics of Drawing & Design Techniques
- Animation History, Types, Treatments, 2D vs 3D
- Color Theory, Light Theory, Layering
- Implementing design concepts in generic designing
software e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Flash,
Anime Studio Pro, After Effects
- Understanding Raster & Vector Images
- Working with Texts Objects, History Palette and
Rulers
- Enhancing Images Filters, Special Effects and
Smart objects
- Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Scanning
- Generating Output for Print Media & Web
- Importing Graphics, Using Draw Tools & the Tool
Palette
- Idea generation/Concept Development and Writing
Story Brief
- Story Boarding and Animatic
- Character Building (Orthos) and Environment
Development
- Script, Shot Division and Screen-play
- Pose Boards & Expression Boards.
- Including Sound and Voiceover in Animations
- Creating Animations, Frame sizes and Frame rates
- Using Frame, Button & Movie Clip Actions
- Optimizing & Publishing Animations for Web and
Broadcast
Course Project
As a project participants of the course have to develop a
theme and design a logo, brochure, poster and website according
to that theme. In addition to this he has to create a commercial
level short 2D animation using the tools learned during the
course and going through steps required in the production life
cycle.
Certificate
- Certificate in 2D Graphics and Animation by
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