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Digital Graphics and Animation

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    By the end of the course overall aims should be achieved as follows: • Enrich the student's basic knowledge about digital computer Modeling software and methods. • Develop the student's ability to use the most famous architectural software to generate architectural models. • Train students to specify the most suitable software to produce their digital models according to their needs
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Climate Action

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    This course introduces the fundamentals of 2D and 3D animation and the process of creating an animated project, ending with actual production. The course helps students to create motion graphics and visual effects for film and video. The course employs text and object animations, compositing videos and images, and adding audio and effects. Throughout the course, students will practice the use of tools for 2D and 3D animation and video-editing such as 3D max, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Adobe After Effects
  • Arabic Description

    This course introduces the fundamentals of 2D and 3D animation and the process of creating an animated project, ending with actual production. The course helps students to create motion graphics and visual effects for film and video. The course employs text and object animations, compositing videos and images, and adding audio and effects. Throughout the course, students will practice the use of tools for 2D and 3D animation and video-editing such as 3D max, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Adobe After Effects
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (10) + tr.Student Activities (55 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 30% , tr.Self_learning 15% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + Exam Grade (35)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • Recommended books
  • - Algorithmic Architecture, by Kostas Terzidis, Routledge, 2016
  • - Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications By Umut Toker, Taylor and Francis, 2022
  • - Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi (Author), Brian Johnson (Afterword), Robert Woodbury (Foreword), Quercus Publishing, 2013
  • - AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo TedeschiLe, Penseur Publisher, 2014
  • - BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Contractors by Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, and Kathleen Liston, Wiley, 2018
  • - Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice by Karen Kensek and Douglas Noble, John Wiley & Sons, 2014
  • - BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice by Randy Deutsch (Author), Wiley, 2011
  • Periodicals, Web sites, … etc
  • - https://grasshopper.com/
  • - https://www.grasshopper3d.com/
  • - https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/bim - Majid al-Rifaie M Ursyn A Wyeld TG. The Art of Coding : The Language of Drawing Graphics and Animation. Boca Raton: CRC Press; 2020.