3D Architectural Animation

Lumion is an incredible Realtime 3D architectural visualization tool for students, architects, urban planners, interior decorators, landscape decorators, designers and 3D artist. In this course, you will be learning about the basics of creating appealing architectural animation videos to visualize your building project to improve presentations and deliver to client visuals screaming with high realism and fidelity.

Students, architects, professionals, interior designers and anyone in the creative design industry looking to develop their 3D animation skills or to get inspired through learning and doing. This is also suitable for Architecture and Interior Design Companies to train their staff in 3D visualization and improve their deliveries to clients.

Students will qualify for a certificate of training only if the pass the assessment exam at the end of the training course. Final score is based on attendance (10%), tests (30%) and a final examination (60%) based on the standard grading system.

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• 70-100
• 60-69
• 50-59
• 40-49
• 0-39

This course is a great start for students who are new to Maya or transitioning from different 3D software packages . We adopt a simple production-based training methodology and our students gain valuable inside knowledge from our years of hands-on experience in 3D animation.

INRODUCTION
•Introduction into Lumion
•Overview of the Lumion working interface
•Navigation controls in Lumion
•Exporting 3D models from 3D programs
•Importing 3D models into Lumion

CREATING A COMMERCIAL PROJECT
•Starting a Lumion project
•Editing an existing project
•Importing a 3d model
•Updating a 3d model
•Assigning materials to 3d model
•Adjusting glass properties
•Adding people to a scene
•Sun directions and clouds
•Placing Lumion content into a scene
•Duplicating, rotating and scaling objects

LIGHTING SETUP
•Global illumination
•Create a day scene
•Create a night scene
•Adding exterior lighting
•Adding interior lighting
•Placing vehicles and trees
•Animating cars and people
•Creating a raining and snowy scene

CREATING A RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
•Creating mountains and adjusting terrain height
•Adjusting elevation
•Creating rivers and lakes
•Assigning exterior materials to a residence
•Adding people to a residential scene
•Adding trees and building
•Creating realistic grass
•Adjusting the sun and clouds
•Placing interior objects
•Changing interior finishes
•Creating fire, rain and smoke effects
•Create water fountains
•Create a solar study
•Create a movie with logo
•Rendering output in Lumion