Searching for a few courses

#1

Hi,
as the title says, I’m looking for a few courses.
First thing is that I want a course that takes me trough the proces of creating a character. ( from the concept art, the tips on how to construct it easly in maya or another 3d program to the render)

Second, I have an animation in mind that I really want to make.
So for this I need a course that explains the process of animating. ( from rigging, animating to render and special effects)
For this animation, I’m also looking for a way to make a portal ( with a big stone structure around it) like the Dark Portal in World of Warcraft. because in my idea of the animation there is a big group of enemys rushing throught it while some are defending the other side. I’d like to know if it should be done in Maya or after the render in After effects.

I’ve been looking for weeks now but can’t find anything.

I know it’s a lot but can someone please help me?? :sad:

#2

From what you’ve described I’ve gleaned you would need the following courses:

Character Design
Modeling
Digital Sculpting(Depending on your character)
Animation
Texturing
Hard Surface Modeling
Rigging
Compositing

Thats at least a couple of terms at a CG school.

#3

Why don’t you go for Animation, there you’ll develop you skills and at the end you can finalize where to major in. Character design or Animation or Rigging or CG etc. there are a lot of good schools/colleges around the world.

#4

I know, after this year, I’m going to a college in Kortrijk, Belgium where I can follow it.

#5

Good to know that… let me know what you’ll be going for and which place… make sure the school/college have good faculty and equipment, two facts of Animation are “one can never be an animator, Until he has that learning and exploring spirit in him, even if the best teacher’s or technologies are there.” “One can never improve, if there is no good faculty and equipment, as he will be learning very slow.”

so i suggest you to make a proper plan and chose the right thing and then hard work will be your next step if you want to archive your aim .

#6

The school I will be attennding is the only school that gives digital arts in Belgium so it has to be that one. But I took a look around and it looks decent, they have interships going all over the world. Every year they have someone going to DICE in Sweden. And if you look at the succes stories from the graduated students, it looks really good.