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• Rendering Essentials

  Rendering Essentials

  1 day

  2 sessions online

  10am–5pm

  Foundational

  Learn how to render beautiful stills in Artlantis. From a model imported from another modelling program, you’ll learn how to apply and modify textures; how to light a scene; add objects like people and trees, before setting up cameras and rendering your stills.

  
  

  Pre-requisites: You have models from another app that you want to create visuals for.
  

  Who is this for? This course is for designers who want quality renders quickly. It’s not for the pro-visualiser who wants deep levels of fine-tuning, but the designer who wishes to produce a quality image in a short amount of time. The app is designed to be intuitively simple and this course will teach you how to get the best out of it.

  At the end of the day… you’ll be able to create beautiful still images of your model, whether that’s an exterior or an interior. You’ll be confident in creating realistically rendered still of your scene.

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  What you’ll learn…

  This course will teach you how to render perspective views and orthographical (partly see-through) views of your model. All our the modelling apps we use export to Artlantis, so in this course you'll learn how to import your model into Artlantis, then learn the skills it takes to produce a beautiful rendered still image.

  You’ll learn about these four core areas…

  1. Textures: Learn how to apply, create and modify textures, as well as the techniques to map them to your model.
  2. Lighting: You’ll learn about the different lights in Artlantis, such as the sun and environment lighting etc.
  3. Camera and Render Settings: You’ll find out how to set up different cameras, whether they’re perspective or orthographic, and with each camera you’ll discover how to apply render settings to achieve your desired look. 
  4. Libraries: We teach you how to use and add to the Artlantis library, so you acquire quality objects and textures like trees, people, plants and chairs.

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  Course Content

  Importing a model

  • Importing CAD file
  • Updating 3D model from CAD file
  • Understanding the interface

  Lights

  • Setting up lighting
  • Editing lights
  • Copying lights (incl. multi-copy)
  • Heliodon lights

  Textures

  • Applying textures
  • Editing textures
  • Use of Postcards for storing textures
  • Moving/Scaling textures

  Cameras

  • Setting up views/cameras

  Rendering

  • Render settings
  • Understanding Radiosity

  Objects

  • Adding objects to the scene
  • Making objects from your model
  • Copying/multi-copying objects
  • Final renders and batch renders
• Animation Essentials

  Animation Essentials

  1 day

  2 sessions online

  10am–5pm

  Intermediate

  Learn how to render beautiful animations with moving parts and objects. With the fundamental skills of lighting and rendering stills in your tool belt, on this course we’ll learn how to set up animations. We cover camera movement, panoramas, moving lights and objects, and much more.

  
  

  Pre-requisites: This course requires Rendering Essentials knowledge.
  

  Who is this course for? Anyone who wants to go beyond creating stills. If you want to create dynamic outputs of your model, this course is for you. The style is primarily photo-realistic but you can also create artistic styles too.

  By the end of the day… you can expect to confidently create walkthrough animations, immersive VR panoramas, and object movies for your models.

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  What you’ll learn…

  There are three types of animation we cover…

  1. Object Animation: This is where we spin around an object on an axis.
  2. Panoramic Animation: Usually when you’re inside a building, and you can look around from a single vantage point, complete with links where we can jump from one place to another. You’ll also learn how to put these panoramas on your tablets and smartphones, even utilising the accelerometers of your device so you can change the perspective by moving the device.
  3. Full Animation: Create a walkthrough animation where the camera moves through your design, with basic animations of parts and objects moving, such as cars driving, doors opening, lights turning on, or textures changing colour. With the built in libraries, you can animate a person walking as simply as telling them to walk from A to B, with their walking motion built-in.

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  Course Content

  Set up

  • Setting up an animation
  • Editing the path

  Animation

  • Camera animations
  • Adding/editing keyframes
  • Object animations

  Panoramas

  • Setting up panoramas
  • Setting up VR objects

  Closing skills

  • Animated textures
  • Rendering animations
• Essentials Complete

  Essentials Complete

  2 days

  4 sessions online

  10am–5pm

  Intermediate

  An Artlantis essential training course in rendering stills  and animation Over 2 days you will cover the content of the Rendering Essentials and Animation Essentials courses.

  Included in this course bundle:

  

  Rendering Essentials

  

  Animation Essentials

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• Something else

  Do you need personal training outside the scope of these courses?

  Are you looking to build on the skills you already have and get to the next level?

  …or do you simply not know what you need and want to talk about it?

  
  

  Whether you’re a fast or slow learner, with our training you can learn at your pace. We can figure out the best tools and techniques to move you forwards. CAD School exists to help you take charge of CAD and do great work.

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