Most Popular 3D Software In The Market

Today we will discuss about most popular 3D Software that are used by the multimedia students and professional artists.

A good 3D modeling software doesn’t make any one a good artist; for that one need great 3D skills.

To create incredible 3D art, you need the right 3D modelling software, skill level and of course the power of imagination.

3D software is used in variety of fields like television, films, virtual reality and video games.

3D software helps to create models by manipulating polygons, edges and vertices in simulated 3D space through a variety of tools and applications.

There are many 3D software in the market but let us discuss about the most popular 3D software used by the modelling and visual effect artists.

Autodesk 3ds Max or 3D Studio Max

3ds Max is a professional 3 dimensional computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

Developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment; it has modelling capability and a flexible plug-in architecture and can be used on the Microsoft Windows platform.

This software is frequently used by video game developers, television commercial studios and film industries.

For modeling and animation 3ds Max features; shaders, dynamic simulation, particle systems, radiosity, normal map creation and rendering, global illumination, a customizable user interface, new icons, and its own scripting language.

Many Hollywood films made use of 3ds Max in CGI animation, such as ‘Avatar’ which contain computer generated graphics from 3ds Max alongside live-action acting.

The modelling techniques in 3ds Max are polygon modeling, Nurbs and Surface tool.

In 3ds Max, MAXScript is a built-in-scripting language that can be used to automate repetitive tasks, combine existing functionality in new ways; develop new tools and user interfaces and many more.

Autodesk Maya 3D Software

3D software Maya runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux, originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation and currently owned and developed by Autodesk, Inc.

Maya is used to make interactive 3D models in video games, animated film, TV series and visual effects.

Walt Disney Animation Studios collaborated closely with Maya’s development during its production of the film Dinosaur.

Disney Studio requested that the User interface of the application be customizable so that a personalized workflow could be created.

This was a particular influence in the open architecture of Maya and partly responsible for its becoming so popular in the animation industry.

On March 2003, Alias was honoured by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science with an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for Scientific and technical achievement for their development of Maya Software.

Maya has been used in the films like Finding Nemo, Ice Age, Frozen, The Transformers and The Lord of the Rings: The two Towers.

Blender 3D Software

Blender software is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games.

Features of Blender includes 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, rendering, motion graphics, video editing and compositing.

NeoGeo, the Dutch animation studio developed Blender as an in-house application.

Blender Version 1.00 was released in January 1995 and originally developed by Ton Roosendaal.

The name of the software Blender was inspired by a song by Yello band from the album baby which NeoGeo used in its showreel.

In 1998 Blender was released publicly online as SGI freeware.

Blender runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Blender is used for television commercials in several parts of the world including Australia, Iceland, Brazil, Russia and Sweden.

NASA also use Blender for publicly available.

Blender is used in the movie Spider-Man-2 to create animatics and pre-visualizations for the storyboard department.

Blender is mostly used for shows on the History Channel.

A commercial animated feature film Plumiferos was entirely created in Blender in 2010.

A 35mm feature film Friday or Another Day was the first French-language feature film to use Blender for all the special effects made on Linux workstations.

Houdini 3D Software

3D animation software Houdini is developed by Side Effects Software Inc (SESI) based in Toronto.

Side Effects Software Inc (SESI) adapted Houdini from the PRISMS suite of procedural generation software tools.

The Houdini software is commonly used in FX departments.

Major VFX companies such as Sony Pictures Image works, Method Studios, Double Negative, ILM uses Houdini.

Houdini has been used in the films like Frozen, Zootopia and Rio.

Limited version of Houdini Apprentice is available free of charge for non-commercial use.

The areas of 3D production covered by Houdini are- Modeling, Animation, Dynamics, Lighting, Rendering, Volumetrics, Compositing and Plug-in.

Any scripting languages which support socket communication can interact with Houdini.

ZBrush 3D Software

Digital Sculpting tool ZBrush combines 2D/3D modelling, texturing and painting.

ZBrush has Pixol technology which stores lighting, colour, material and depth information for all objects on the screen.

Compared to other modelling packages ZBrush is more close to sculpting.

ZBrush is capable of creating high-resolution models for use in movies, games and animations by renowned companies like ILM, Weta Digital and others.

ZBrush 4 version runs on Mac OSX and Windows.

ZBrush software uses dynamic levels of resolution to allow sculptors to make global or local changes to their models.

This software is developed by the company Pixologic Inc.

ZBrush is capable of sculpting medium to high frequency details that were traditionally painted in bump maps.

ZBrush offers integration with Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, LightWave 3D, PoserPro, DAZ Studio, EIAS, MODO and Blender.

The ZBrush comes has many features to help in the sculpting of Models and Meshes.

ZBrush is capable of Skeletal Animation in other 3D programs and transpose feature allows a user to isolate a part of the model and pose it without the need of skeletal rigging.

Therefore we got a glimpse of the popular 3D software which is commonly used by the designers.

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Success Story Of MAAC Ultadanga Alumni

MAAC Ultadanga Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics believes in the creation of a new and fascinating world of Media and Entertainment.

MAAC Ultadanga is constantly evolving keeping up with the latest trends in the industry.

This institute has exceptional ability to offer its students a wide range of in-depth, well-structured course curriculums.

MAAC institute has become a pioneer in Animation and VFX learning.

Dear Readers, Today we will tell you about the success story of Bhuban Chand Shaw who is an ex-student of MAAC Ultadanga centre.

MAAC Ultadange is a place where each and every student is raised with proper care and affection.

Bhuban Chand Shaw has studied VFX Plus under VFX (Visual Effects) Course at MAAC Ultadanga Centre and now he is attached with acclaimed Moving Picture Company (MPC) Bangalore.

MAAC Ultadanga’s VFX Plus course offers clear-cut knowledge about high-end Visual Effects used in films and other media to its students.

This course creates skilled professionals required by Film Industry, Animation Studios, Graphic Design Media Houses and Gaming Studios.

By completing this course MAAC students can join the distinguished domestic or International VFX Industry.

MAAC Kolkata institute offers real work experience in a well equipped studio environment with certified and experienced faculty members.

Bhuban Chand Shaw expresses his gratitude towards the faculty members of Ultadanga through his words as “The faculties gave me confidence and built my trust towards them and pushed me towards my upcoming achievement”.

Bhuban further says with delight “MAAC Ultadanga is a place of Knowledge and Bliss. I feel special studying here”.

It is very much true that all our faculty members are wonderful mentors;.

Along with syllabus they also teaches the students on how to handle the work pressure and about day to day challenges that may come on their way to pursue the dream job.

Bhuban Chand Shaw did VFX Plus course along with his other education and this helped him in gathering technical knowledge about film industry.

He is extremely thankful to the MAAC mentors.

Our proud alumni Bhuban Chand Shaw is currently working at Moving Picture Studio (MPC) which is located at Bangalore.

MPC Bangalore studio designs a range of creative VFX products for the advertising and film industries.

Bhuban has joined the Bangalore branch as a Jr. Texture Artist.

As a texture artist Bhuban is responsible for the creation of textures, colours and organic surface qualities that is required for Computer generated creatures and models.

Texture artist works with modeller in any high end visual effects films.

At MAAC Ultadanga centre Bhuban acquired detailed knowledge about VFX Software; he also learnt to work within a team of other Texture Artists and got practice of finishing the project work within the deadline.

Before joining MPC Bangalore, Bhuban worked at Prana Studio as 3D Texture Artist; located at Mumbai and which creates first class animation and visual effects for feature films, television and advertising.

After completing the course VFX Plus course at Ultadange centre, Bhuban as a fresh candidate joined Prana studio; which offer platform for the talented, creative and passionate people.

Established in 2003 Prana Studio provides CG Imagery and VFX for United States as well as Bollywood market, Prana’s Los Angeles office was founded in 2005.

Bhuban is extremely satisfied with his work at MPC Bangalore as he said in his interview “Thank You to the Team of MAAC Member for guiding me towards my best career Job”.

It is a fact that the person gather knowledge throughout his or her life, learning helps us to grow to a more mature and experienced human being.

For Bhuban learning did not ended at MAAC Ultadanga centre,.

He pursued his passion and gathered knowledge through hard word from his first job at Prana Studios and then proving his talent at Prana Studio.

Then he  moved forward to join MPC Bangalore which provided him bigger platform to satisfy his creative skills.

One should not stop until and unless the dream is achieved.

Bhuban Chand Shaw has shown the road to the thousands of budding students who are eager to do something exceptional as Texture Artist in the field of Multimedia.

Achievements

Today MAAC Ultadanga is feeling proud of its alumni Bhuban Chand Shaw’s achievement.

Through patience, hard work and competence Bhuban Chand Shaw has achieved his dream job at MPC Bangalore.

MPC has head office in Soho, London along with other branches at Paris, Shanghai, New York City Montreal, Los Angeles and Bangalore.

Known for its photo-realistic animation, MPC has contributed in the films like Life of PI and The Jungle Book.

Bhuban Chand Shaw is satisfied with his work and salary at MPC and he is looking forward to add more colours to his career canvas.

As Bhuban summed up the interview by saying that “I cherish each and every memory, the favourite past times I had in my life.”

Like Bhuban Chand Shaw most of our alumni are currently placed at various famous and established companies after attaching their names with MAAC Kolkata.

Speciality of MAAC Ultadanga

MAAC Centres such as Chowringhee, Rashbehari and Ultadanga are places where illusions are created through art and animation.

They are the best and oldest MAAC centre in Eastern India and they have dedicated research and development team of industry professionals.

Our faculty members are widely exposed to all sorts of industry updates which help them to sharpen their technical skills; the faculty team is also responsible for planning detailed curriculum.

Our well-equipped classrooms help students to win awards during their course of studies.

Our Director Mr. Naveen Choudhary has appreciated the creative roles played by our alumni after passing their courses from the centre.

Mr. Choudhary encourages each and every student to work hard.

All the MAAC centres create innovative projects on the day to day basis; it offer generous support and take care of each student from the beginning till the placement.

To prepare our dedicated students for the job is the main mission and vision of our MAAC Kolkata Centres.

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10 Scariest Animated Movies Capable Of Giving Goosebumps

There is no doubt that Animated Movies in horror genre are capable of scaring not only children but adult also.

From creating Fantasy world to Horror stories, animation has come a long way.

Filmmakers have realized the potential of animation to tell any type of story, therefore animated films have expanded into multiple genres, from horror to drama.

In today’s blog we will discuss about those animated movies that can give you goose bumps.

Let us now discuss about ten top Scariest Movies:-

Monster House (2006) is an American 3D Computer-animated supernatural horror comedy film, directed by Gil Kenan.

It is produced by Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.

The story is about a neighbourhood terrorised by a haunted house.

The powerful Special effects of the film are strong enough to keep your eyes glued to the screen.

The film was shot using Motion Capture, in which the actors performed the characters’ movement while linked to sensors.

A 3D stereoscopic version of the film was also created and was released in digital 3D stereo.

Coraline (2009) is 3D stop-motion animated dark fantasy horror film based on Neil Gaiman’s 2002 novel of the same name, directed by Henry Selick and distributed by Focus Features.

The plot tells about young Coraline Jones, who moves to a new house with her parents and finds a dark secret behind the secret door of her house.

Many high-quality 3D models, ranging from facial expressions to doorknobs were printed in 3D using the Polyjet matrix systems which helps in fast transformation of CAD drawings into high quality 3D models.

This film won Annie Awards and won Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.

If you watch the film The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) it will definitely send shivers down your spine, as it is one of the most iconic Halloween Animated Movies of all time.

This film was based on a poem written by Tim Burton when he was an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation.

The team of artists created about 400 heads with various emotions for the character Jack Skellington (the king of Halloween Town).

The Halloween Town is filled with monsters, ghosts, goblins, zombies, demons, mummies, vampires, werewolves and witches.

The film is directed by Henry Selick.

It is the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3D.

The artist team constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie.

Songs of the film are scary too.

Stop-motion animated comedy horror film ParaNorman (2012) tells the story of a boy named Norman, who sees dead people hanging around.

The film has zombies, ghosts and witches.

Produced by Laika Studio, it is the first stop-motion film to use a 3D colour printer to create character faces and the second to be shot in 3D.

Laika Studio’s previous film ‘Coraline’ had pioneered and popularized the use of black and white 3D printers.

Which sped up puppet production to some extend and allowed the creative team to make the huge number of puppet faces required for the film.

Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film Spirited Away (2001) is the winner of Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

It is the highest grossing movie of all time and captured the hearts of viewers all over the world.

Animated Movies by Studio Ghibli, the film tells the story of a 10-year old girl who enters the spirit world of Japanese Shinto-Buddhist folklore.

Walt Disney Pictures dubbed the English adaptation under the supervision of Pixar animator John Lasseter.

This film is ranked among the greatest animated films ever made.

Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri; Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a 2000 Animated Movies.

This film was shown in twelve theatres in United States and received positive reception.

The film has wonderful visual effects along with soundtrack.

The main character was designed by artist Yoshitaka Amano.

The animation director Yutaka Minowa matched Amano’s art style with the rest of the film’s characters.

The Madhouse Studio in Tokyo created the animation for the film while the post-production work was done in California.

The plot of the film follows the Vampire Hunter D; as he pursues a young woman who has ran away with her lover; Baron Meier Link.

In 1999 the English soundtrack for the film was recorded before the Japanese dialogue was finished.

The French black and white animated horror anthology film Fear(s) of the Dark (2007) is produced by Prima Linéa Productions.

This film is created by several notable comic book creators and graphic designers.

It has unique and incredibly artistic visual effects.

There are five stories in this film each one designed by different directors.

This film has both traditional animation and computer animation.

Perfect Blue (1997) is a Japanese animated psychological horror film directed by Satoshi Kon.

It is a scary and disturbing film; its soundtrack will give you the chills.

Produced by Madhouse, this film blurred the line between fantasy and reality in contemporary Japan.

A 2012 American 3D Stop-motion animated fantasy horror comedy film, Frankenweenie is directed by Tim Burton and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

Frankenweenie is a black and white film and the fourth stop-motion film produced by Burton.

This film has 1,300 Visual Effects shots.

The film was actually shot in colour but changed to black and white on computer.

The film follows a boy named Victor who loses his dog Sparky and uses the power of electricity to revive him.

The film won Saturn Award for Best Animated Film and won Annie Award.

Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) is the action horror film directed by Makoto Kamiya.

This is the first full-length motion capture CG animation feature by Capcom in cooperation with Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan.

It has nice camera angles and CGI.

The film begins at the Harvardville Airport, as militants fight off the Zombie outbreaks.

Senator Ron Davis has the most impressive character.

An Animated Movies can take you to any where whether it is fantasy or horror world.

Hence, if you wish to explore the world of animation then don’t feel hesitate to contact us.

Journey Of Spider-Man From Comic Book To Animation Movie

Spider-Man, the superhero character is created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko during 1960s.

The ‘Spider-Man’ is one of the most popular and commercially successful Superheroes.

The fictional Superhero character Spider-Man has been adapted into various media including television shows, films, toys, stage shows, books, and video games.

Animated cartoon series of Spiderman has been adapted to television many times.

Spider-Man first appeared into American Comic Books published by Marvel Comics.

In the stories of ‘Spider-Man’ Peter Parker an orphan high school student raised by his Aunt Mary and Uncle Ben in New York City, after his parents Richard and Mary Parker were killed in a plane crash.

Within the story, Peter Parker acquires spider-related abilities after a bite from a radioactive spider; abilities like clinging to surfaces, shooting spider-webs from wrist-mounted devices and detecting danger with his “spider-sense”.

Spider-Man’s enemies are Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin and Venom.

The first animated cartoon series of ‘Spider-Man’ ran on television from 1967-1970.

With the creation of the animation studio ‘Marvel Productions Ltd’ in 1981, Marvel started to translate more of their comic characters to television.

The 2Dimensional animated cartoon series ‘Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends’ was created for NBC in 1981, featuring Spider-Man, Iceman of the X-Men and a new character Firestar.

In 1994 ‘Spider-Man’ animated series was made for the Fox Network, this was the longest Spider-Man series with 65 episodes in five seasons.

To recreate New York City’s appearance background illustrators undertook a large amount of visual research by using photo archives from above New York City, particularly rooftops.

Buildings were reproduced faithfully and Maps were consulted for references.

The animation artists were directed to populate the city with cars and crowds on the street level.

Animation artists used traditional Cel based animation while occasionally using CGI backgrounds by Kronos Digital Entertainment.

In 2003, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series was launched on MTV, using 3Dimensional Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) rendered in Cel Shading.

CGI was produced by Mainframe Entertainment.

After that came ‘The Spectacular Spider-Man’ in 2008, ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ in 2012 on Disney XD and ‘Spider-Man’ in 2017 both of them were CGI animated television series.

Recently made ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ (2018) is the first animated feature film directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman.

In the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Miles Morales becomes one of many Spider-Men as they team up to save New York City from Kingpin.

Miles Morales is a teenager who first appeared in ‘Ultimate Fallout’ (2011) after the death of Peter Parker.

Producer Phil Lord and Christopher Miller wanted the film to have its own unique style, combining Sony Pictures Image-works‘ computer animation pipeline with traditional hand-drawn comic book techniques inspired by the work of Miles Morales’s co-creator Sara Pichelli

Sara Pichelli is the illustrator of the Miles Morales in the version of ‘Ultimate Spider–Man’.

The Filmmakers of this film broke the traditional CG rules and developed a new, unique visual language, rich in stylistic elements, shapes, colours and movement, where the hand of the artist is visible in every frame.

Hand-drawn line works were added on top of 3d characters.

Artists developed a line-drawing system in Houdini and tied it into Maya.

They created two types of lines: Lines of acting and emotion and lines of form.

The line-drawing system could convert these hand-drawn lines into geometry curves that can be animate like any other rigged geometry.

At the initial development stage, the directors worked with a single animator to establish the look of the film.

Later the number of animators grew more than 140, the largest crew ever used by Sony Pictures Animation for a film.

The Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) animation for the film was combined with ‘line work and painting and dots and all sorts of comic book techniques’ to make it look like it was created by hand.

Different comic styles were reproduced throughout the film for the different characters, with Spider-Gwen’s animation based on the designs in her comics, Spider-Man Noir having a black-and-white colour scheme, and Spider-Ham being designed as “cartoony” as possible.

The crew looked at comics, illustrations, and 2D animation for inspiration, and borrowed a 2D trick by animating the film on 2s instead of 1s (12 frames per second and not 24 frames per second) to remove the motion blur and get snappier poses.

The team found new ways to handle fast camera pans without using motion blur and to create new types of lensing effects consistent with illustration not realism.

According to the Animation Director Joshua Beveridge, the team wanted their own language for different animation styles and different universe.

Their biggest challenge was to create balance between ‘cartoony look and realistic look’.

Danny Dimian

The animation team led by Visual Effects Supervisor Danny Dimian, took cues from old, rudimentary printing processes.

The team limited their colour palette and used an inker’s technique called half-toning, in which dots and patterns of colour in different sizes convey shade and light.

Inspired by old screen-printed comics, Dimian used hatching and half-toning techniques in the render and in compositing.

For the numerous shots of explosions, blasts, fire, and spark, 2D style effects were added.

The greatest factor for the animation team was to create Miles Morales, an Afro-Latino teenage superhero and the team also created wide range of styles for the supporting Spidery characters.

The cloth simulations on characters’ wardrobe proved particularly challenging when animation was done on 2s.

To achieve kind of continuous motion of the clothing, Imageworks had to run an in-between.

A ghost in-between frame was used which the audience cannot see and is not animated, but it allows the simulation to actually be continuous.

Imageworks had to write Software to allow those simulations to occur despite the non-continuous motion, and for the ghost frames to be removed.

This film has grossed over $278 million worldwide against a $90 million budget, and was praised for its animation, characters, story, voice acting, humour, and soundtrack.

The film won Best Animated Feature Film at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, and earned numerous other awards and nominations.

So here we had seen a character from comic to grow to become super hero winning the hearts of billions worldwide.

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Advantages of 3D Animation

The process of Animating objects in a three-dimensional space is known as 3D Animation.

3D objects can rotate and move like real objects. It is mostly used in Games, Media and Virtual Reality.

3D animation looks more realistic and exciting.

A Graphic designer and artist William Fetter created the first real 3D image of the human form to use in short films for Boeing Company.

Animators attaches sensors to the human, computers identifies movement points.

Animators add detail, using computers to move the sensor points and CGI is born.

Each and every 3D animation follows the steps of Modelling, Layout, Animation and 3D rendering.

3D animation makes the visual more attractive and engages the viewers more effectively.

3D animation creates wonderful Visual Effects for Movies, Television and commercials.

Film Industry is constantly working and experimenting with different tools and technologies to create amazing visual effects and animation movies for entertainment.

From the release of the first 3Dcomputer-animated feature length film ‘Toy Story’ in 1995 there is no looking back for the animation industry.

A realistic 3D Animation explains faster and in much efficient manner than Texts, Images and ordinary video.

We can present more information in less time with the help of animation.

Here are few areas where 3D Animations are useful:-

3D Medical Animation

The Medical animation is a piece of informative and knowledgeable film.

Prepared using 3D software, it acts helpful for medical professionals or their patients.

It began in 1970s for visualizing complex Macromolecules.

3D animations can illustrate physiological, molecular or anatomical concepts.

Medical animation industry has revenues of $15 billion per year worldwide.

Medical Animation can be used for Patient Education and they can be found in Hospital websites or in doctor’s office.

They can appear in television shows to educate audience.

It can be use to teach anatomical and surgical concepts to the medical students and can be available in the form of CD-ROM in the medical textbook packages.

Medical animation can be used to visualize microscopic process of human body such as transcription of DNA, Molecular action of enzymes etc.

3D Medical Animation can be used to instruct novices how take emergency care.

Animation Kolkata

The 3D animation in the field of architecture has become popular now.

Builders, Architects and Interior Designers use 3D animation to make their project more visually effective.

3D software like 3D Interior, 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Giza 2006 etc are used.

Architectural animation uses thousands of still images to produce movie effect.

Architectural drawings of Residential Homes, Villas, Apartments, Commercial Buildings, Office buildings are made using 3D animation.

An Interior Designer can use 3d modelling to demonstrate future room designs, color combinations, placement of lights etc.

With 3D Animation Landscapers can create amusement parks, kiosks and sport arenas.

The Architectural animation gives ideas to the customer about how their project will look after completion.

Architectural Firms prefer using animation in their marketing programs; so the demand for quality 3D architectural animation service is increasing.

There are many real-time rendering engines that allow architectural animation cheaper and less laborious.

3D Mechanical Animation

Machine and Automobile industry needs lot of detailing, attention and hard work to create products. A minor fault may lead to major accidents.

3D animation helps in designing even the most accurate parts.

3D animation of Mechanical products, allow easy monitoring of Kinetics, Precise wire-Frame Geometry creation and accuracy of designs.

It helps their client to understand modus-operandi of a product and its features.

It helps engineering team to design multiple prototypes with minimal cost and maximum efficiency.

Mechanical animations help to detect the flaws easily. It protects us from losses due to faulty design, as errors can be detected before the final product is developed.

Many Industries such as mechanical, Aerospace, Automobile, Healthcare and others are depending at 3D product design and mechanical product animation for faster prototype, to get quick market and to promote their brand in better ways.

A Mechanical Animation consists of Realistic texture and lighting of the product, transparent background, 360 degree camera movements, Video rendering in HD quality, Sound effects and music.

Software such as SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, HyperMesh, Unigraphics helps to create 3D Mechanical animation.

3D Educational Animation

Research suggests that retention of information is higher when it is communicated using both visual and verbal communication.

The Government Organizations, Universities, Corporations, High Schools and Middle Schools use 3D visualization as a teaching tool.

Teachers are no longer dependent on static graphics but can convert them into Educational Animation.

3D Models and environments are used for education and training in variety of areas like biotechnology, aerospace, product marketing etc.

Usage of computers in education has developed in the past 25 years.

Young school students are fascinated about animation technology.

A well-designed animation can help students learn faster and easier and they can aid teachers when it needs to be explaining difficult subjects.

For example the operation of electric circuits can be difficult for students to understand without 3d animation.

3D animation helps to understand the school subjects like Maths, Science, Geography and other.

3D Forensic Animation

Forensic Animation is used to solve crimes like robbery, murder and accidents.

The details of the crime are supplied to the animators by Forensic experts, police officers, engineers and eyewitnesses, so that animators can recreate the past incident.

Forensic animators work for investigative firms, government agencies, science or medical labs and other.

They use software like Adobe Illustrator, 3ds Max, Auto CAD, Adobe Flash Professional CC etc to create animated presentation.

3D Animation in Advertising

3D animation presents a product in the most fascinating way and attracts people to pay attention.

An advertisement with 3D animation shows the product in various angles, colours, sizes and in depth details.

The creativity of the 3D animator makes the product glossy and tempting.

Lot of video and audio effects make the viewers to fall in love with the advertisement.

Even online sellers use 3D animation to attract customers, as they can view the product from all angles.

3D animation helps to add glamour and style into a product.

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Five Things To Keep In Mind While Designing Mobile Game App

Mobile game development is currently a hot market. Many companies are making stunning mobile games.

We can download Mobile Games from App stores or mobile operator’s portals.

It takes only few seconds to browse through the App store or Google Play market to get huge number of games that are available.

Mobile gaming revenue reached $50.4 billion in 2017.

There are huge numbers of mobile game developers all over the world, making all kinds of mobile games.

In 1997, Nokia launched the very successful Mobile Game ‘Snake’ that was preinstalled in most Nokia mobile devices and was one of the most played game in the world.

There are many commercially successful games like ‘Angry Birds’, ‘Candy Crush’, ‘Farmville’ etc.

These games have inspired millions to take an initiative in mobile game development.

Before every successful mobile game there is countless games which failed, example Rovio Entertainment failed 51 times before coming up with successful ‘Angry Birds’.

The game must be dynamic, interactive and full of fun.

 Tips For Designing Mobile Game App

Have Your Own Idea

The most important step is to decide what kind of mobile game you want to develop.

Every game has its own story, own characters and target to accomplish.

Stories help to hold the user’s attention and give meaning to the game.

A good storyline drives the user to return to the game even if they have lost the interest in the game.

Make the game curious for the better engagement.

To create a game one will have to draw a plot of the game.

If you are making an action game then you will have to decide upon Hero and Villain of the game, why they are fighting and how the hero will achieve victory.

Study the popular games and then come up with your own idea.

Develop the characters of the game, music, the obstacle and the target.

Keep the game simple yet enjoyable.

To make the game stand in the market, you have to make the game more exciting than the other games.

Start with your own simple idea and do not copy others.

Think of something innovative and engaging idea.

You can improvise an existing idea instead of thinking a new idea from scratch.

Games like ‘Candy Crush’ and ‘Diamonds’ are brilliant examples of improvisation.

The game should be easy and full of fun with a gradually increasing difficulty level because players tend to lose interest in lengthy games.

Your idea should appeal to the mass audience to help you to make profit and should give a new kind of experience to the audience.

Choose Your Platform

Mobile Game are developed to run on a variety of platforms and technologies.

The platforms mean whether you want the game to be; on mobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry or hybrid), TV, PlayStation, Xbox, etc. Each and every gaming platform has it its own pros and cons.

Choosing the right platform is very important as that will be the basis of entire game development.

Modern platforms are Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.

At one time Java was the most common platform for mobile games.

Game engine ‘Unity’ is one of the most widely used engines used by modern mobile games.

Along with choosing a platform to design a game, you also need to determine the language that will be used.

If you want your game to be on iOS then you have to choose language Objective C, whereas Android has Java as its development language.

Developing a game for multiple platforms requires additional costs.

Developing a mobile game is complex and you need experienced developers to back your initiatives.

A skilled developer can transform the idea into a lucrative business.

The screen sizes and resolutions can vary based on device type, even on the same mobile platform.

For example, the screen size and resolution on the HTC Incredible is different than that on the HTC EVO 4G.

Create A Stunning Design

A colourful, bright, attractive game design always catches eyes of the players.

A poor game image will hamper the interest for the game.

A gamer always looks for eye-catching graphics before downloading a game.

User Experience Design (UX) and User Interface Design (UI) make a game engaging.

Keep UX priority with rich game design.

While designing mobile game make sure that your game graphics don’t pixelate when launched on high-resolution phones or large screens, like tablets.

It is good to design the graphics considering the maximum screen size and the best possible resolution since it is easier to shrink than to expand without losing image quality.

Proper selection of software package for designing a mobile game is as important as selection of story, animation and characters of the game.

You can design your game on 2D software or 3D software.

You can create a simple flat design or comic style with 3D layout; but keeping the weight of the design elements to a minimum is important.

Adding a good Audio effects to the game will catch players’ attention and will create an interesting gaming environment.

Creating own custom music for the game will help to create branding and engage gamers.

Keeping challenges at every levels of the game is essential.

Test It Before Launch

Before launching the mobile game into the market, involve other people to play your game to check if they can detect any defects or bugs in the game.

Demo test will allow you to make changes in your game as per the feedback from gamers.

Once the game is ready to be played by people, submit it for approval.

You should play your game constantly to detect any problem that requires fixing.

Do a lot of marketing and advertising, so that it can reach to wide range of people.

Launching the game on multiple platforms means more audience for your mobile game.

Decide The Monetization Strategy

Before developing a game, one should plan the game monetization strategy because Game development is expensive and time consuming for any platform.

You should plan game monetization strategy to recover the investment.

In-App purchasing, is an effective way to earn income from players.

Premium Version offers a free trial or demo and ask players to pay for further use.

There are many games that combine ads with in-app purchases.

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24 FPS VFX Challenge 2018

Hello, readers in today’s blog you will discover behind the scene of VFX Short film re-created by students of MAAC Chowringhee.

Here aspirants and readers will get to know about different steps involved in re-creating 24 FPS VFX Challenge 2018 short film based on original film Star War: The Last Jedi.

Star War: The Last Jedi is American space Opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson made in 2017.

Our MAAC Chowringhee students have selected few shots from the Original film of Star War: The Last Jedi and recreated those shots using techniques like Chroma Key and different Visual effects and Animation techniques.

Let us look at the VFX short film made by the team The Backbenchers’.

Watch The movie Click On:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7X2OG3LL14

Behind The Scene of VFX Challenge

24fpsVFX Challenge 2018- Making Vedio click on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lp07UXkMsk

 Set designing and Shooting is the integral part of Production Stage.

In the above picture we can see the technicians helping out in applying pointers all over the Green screen for the effect of Chroma-Key.

Before re-creating any shot or image from a movie it is very necessary to study in details about the background, mid ground and foreground

This was the first shot or image selected by our MAAC students to be re-created.

In the above picture we can see a humanoid C-3PO robot and one of our students.

In the original shot actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada was there with the humanoid robot C-3PO.

The first shot shows actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada talking to the humanoid robot C-3PO and the in the second image actor in working on this monitor.

Technical Breakdown

Shooting with camera requires lot of technical features like balancing the camera on the Tripod, checking recording mode, white balance etc.

Here we can see how the team is working on capturing the shot.

Three-point Lighting is crucial part of the shooting stage in the studio set up.

Here our student is getting a view of how he should act in front of the camera when the camera will start rolling.

With reflectors at the back and properly lit set, team The Backbenchers’ captured the first shot.

Instead of the actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada, one of our students with same dress code (brown jacket with logo) was inserted with in the shot.

MAAC Students used Chroma Key Visual Effects technique to remove the background from the shot, this technique is used in post-production stage.

Chroma Key helps in layering of two images together based on colour range.

C 3PO or Humanoid robot was Modeled in 3D software then Texture was added to the perfection and the movement was given to the robot through Camera Tracking and Animation so that the robot can move and talk with the student within the shot.

The team made lot of adjustment in the student character such as skin tone and hair was modified to match it with actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada.

At the post production stage, with the help of techniques such as Background Paint, Motion Graphics, Adding C 3PO, Adding monitor, adding MAAC student as character, Wraping, Edge Light and Shadow and adding Grains the first two shot was recreated.

Shot of Actor Adam Driver was recreated by adding another student model.

In the film Star War: The Last Jedi actor Adam appears with a Lightsaber in the fighting scene with Mark Hamill.

Our student model with similar hair and dress style of actor Adam was added into the new shot.

In the next shot actress Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley was replaced by one of our female MAAC students.

With the similar dress code and make-up the female student stand out in front of the camera with Green screen at the background.

On the editing stage the Skin colour and Dress colour of the student character was adjusted, then the green screen background was removed.

The team re-created the shot by adding Background Paint, Stone, Light, Debrish, Character, Glow, Rainbow and Grains.

With all the CG effects the shot of moving stones all around actress Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley was replaced by our female student model.

CG dust and debris were added.

To re-create the shot in which actor John Boyega and actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada is coming out of the rock cave, students worked on VFX and modeling.

Stones were modelled using 3D software and then proper shapes, colours and textures were added into the stones.

Stones were created by adjusting polygon and vertex in 3D software.

Through Camera Tracking and Animation movements were given to the stones.

Background green screen was removed with the CG shot of cave, Student as character was added, Shadow, rocks and debris were also added.

Each and every piece of stones were scaled, adjusted and animated to match the original.

The above picture is re-created shot of actor John Boyega and actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada coming out of the cave with moving rocks all around.

For the bullet firing weapon shot the team Backbenchers’ prepared the fresh model of the weapon in the 3D modelling software.

Weapon’s height, diameter, length and weight were all matched with the original one.

Artist worked on each single piece of the weapon, each part were created and fitted together, colour, shade and texture were adjusted.

Team The Backbenchers’ also worked on the droid model of BB 9E which is an evil twin of BB 8 in the original movie of Star War: The Last Jedi.

They first created the model or shape of BB 9E in the modelling software by adjusting polygons and vertex and then added texture and Lighting to BB 9E.

Then the artists added the Computer generated duplicate background, object, Glow, Shadow and Grains to the shot.

That is how students of MAAC Chowringhee centre created their short film 24 FPS VFX Challenge 2018 based on the original movie of Star War: The Last Jedi.

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