Topics in Interactive Media (376-0-23)

Topic

Animation for Games

Instructors

Eric N Blomquist

Meeting Info

Louis Hall 118: Mon 3:00PM - 6:50PM

Overview of class

Built for all skill levels, you will learn the fundamentals of animation as used in interactive media. These skills will allow you to express personality, performance, readability, and / or functionality in your character movements and actions. This course will also cover software, animating simple shapes, rigged characters, creating animation sets, and importing / preparing animations for the Unity game engine. We will be using Blender and Unity 3d as our tools for all projects.

Class Materials (Required)

Books: Game Anim: Video Game Animation Explained 2nd Edition By : Jonathan Cooper
ISBN-10 : 0367707659

Software: Blender 3d, Unity 3d