A new course in 3D Modeling and Animation will be held at the new Nemech Center – New Media for Cultural Heritage (Le Murate – Piazza Madonna della Neve 1 Firenze) with the following calendar: July 6-9, 13-16 – 2015 from 4.00PM to 8.00PM.

NEMECH Competence Centre on cultural heritage was established by Regione Toscana and activated by MICC – University of Florence in 2014.

The course will guide the students in understanding the software Autodesk Maya, the leading software for creating special effects and three-dimensional animation for commercials, film and video. Most of the time will be dedicated to laboratory exercises. Will be discussed: presentation of Autodesk Maya, primitives, polygon meshes and NURBS, editing tools, materials and lighting base, paint effects.

Basics of Adobe Photoshop are a pre-requisite.