Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Game Art and Design

Game samples from a basic flash Actionscript inspired from Pong game






A successful game art classes where the students have the hands-on virtual experience and interaction in creating basic flash games, especially Actionscript fundamentals. A potential opportunity as a game professions in the digital content industry particularly in Malaysia and Singapore. Range of categories and specific skills are required such as visual artists who creates environments and concepts, to Flash and vector artist that create vector art which is compulsory to the game market.

Latest selected game art & design, from previous class of 2013


Sunday, October 17, 2010

Instructors @ Lecturers

Academic Staff
Dr. Azaini Abdul Manaf
MFA Animation
Savannah College of Art & Design
Georgia, USA
Doctor of Design (Service Innovation Design)
Dongseo University, Pusan
South Korea
niche area - field of interest: character design, animation, character modelling, digital painting, service design, marketing, research methodology.

Azwan Abidin
MFA Computer Arts and New Media
Academy of Art University
San Francisco, USA
niche area - field of interest: Interaction, game design, UX, Graphic production design, Compositing and rotoscoping.

Noorhaslina Senin
MA Visual Communication and New Media
UiTM Shah Alam, MALAYSIA
niche area - field of interest: character design, Graphic production design, Graphic design.

Terry Lucas (PhD Study Leave)
MSc Digital Imaging and Design,
New York University,
New York USA
niche area - field of interest: Animation, Dynamics and Physics, Mel scripting.

Auzani Zeda bt Mohamed Kassim
Master of Arts (Visual Art and Design)
Universiti Sains Malaysia.
B.Multimedia(Hons) Film and Animation,
Multimedia University(MMU),
Cyberjaya MALAYSIA
niche area - field of interest: Architecture animation, 3D Modelling, Projection Mapping.

Jong Sze Joon
M.Sc.,Creative Multimedia, 
Multimedia University, Malaysia
niche area - field of interest: Motion capture, 3D Modelling, 3D Animation.

Asadul Islam (Contract Lecturer)
Masters in Digital Director, 
3D Animation Film Making, 
DSK Supinfocom, INDIA
niche area - field of interest: 3D Modelling, 3D Animation, Rendering, Rigging, dynamics, physics and softbodies. 3D animation workflow, technical renderfarm solutions.

Ang Tse Chwan
Master of Instructional Multimedia, 
Universiti Sains Malaysia, 
Malaysia 
niche area - field of interest: 3D Modelling, 3D Animation, film analysis, animation education.

Technical Assistance
Penolong Jurutera
Humprey Lincoln Ak Badar
JA 29

COURSES

GKN1043 Animation Studio 1
GKN 1053 Storyboarding and Visualization
GKN2083 Animation Studio 2
GKN2093 Character Animation and Layout Design
GKN2103 Game Art & Design
GKN2113 Advanced Animation Studio 1
GKN2123 Stop Motion Animation
GKN2133 Animation Post Production
GKN3013 Advanced Animation Studio 2

Friday, October 15, 2010

Character and Layout Design




In GKN2093 Character Animation and Layout Design where the students have the real life hands-on to polymer clay that is specialized for building character maquettes. These Hard-to-find clay need to be baked at 125 degrees to obtain matte and hardened surface. Animators requires the maquettes as a references of form, shadow and consistency in the animation.

Student's development of sketches to finished 3D maqquettes:




Friday, January 15, 2010

Facilities



Lab Facilities and Inventories



2 x 20" Wacom Cintiq
4 x Maudio professional CF recorder

10 Dell Precision Intel i7 with 16GB DDR3, Nvidia Quadro
59 Dell Precision Workstations Intel Dual-Core x 20" Monitors
30 Wacom Intous + Bamboo Digital Tablets


Software
3D Max
Blender 3D
Toon Boom Studio

Classical Animation

  • 30 Animation Desks
  • 6 Capture Stations with Flipbook Software
Compositing Room
  • Green Screen 9'x12'
  • 4' x 2' Kinoflo include ballasts
  • 2 x Arri Lighting

Motion Capture Centre
  • 18 unit Optitrack High Speed Camera
  • Dell Xeon  Workstation, with Motion capture processing application.
  • Arena Software
Graduate and Final Year Lab



Game Development Corner
  • HP Dual Xeon Processor with 3 x 20" Monitors with quest 3D
  • Microsoft X Box 360
  • Sony Playstation 3
  • Nintendo Wii
  • Network ready

Hi Animators

Welcome to unofficial Animation Programme blog @ FACA, UNIMAS. For potential candidates and students, you guys may use the content for your own reference.