Maya: Basic Computer Animation

COURSE FINDER

Sep 23 - Nov 25

$450

If you would like more information about this or any other course offerings, please contact a SVACE Course Advisor at:

ce@sva.edu

Location

Online

Faculty

Brendan Gallagher,

Animator; digital artist; owner, creative director, Out to Play Entertainment

3D artists with professional skills have never been more in demand for film, broadcast, medical visualization, product design, architectural design and presentations. Autodesk Maya is the industry standard for 3D modeling and animation production. This course will cover a broad range of modeling and animation techniques as well as industry standard workflows for texturing and rendering. Students will be challenged to develop skills in polygonal modeling that include proper topology and industry appropriate levels of detail. We will also explore timing and performance for mechanical as well as character animation utilizing Maya's powerful graph editor. Each student will assemble a professional quality, final demonstration reel of their coursework.
NOTE: In addition to the general technical requirements for online courses, students must have Autodesk Maya 2025 installed on their computer. This course is fully online and offered through synchronous sessions during the listed course hours.

Course Number

SMC-2213-OL

Credits

3 CEUs

Technical Requirements

The School of Visual Arts online courses are hosted in Canvas, our College-wide learning system. Most computers (5 years old or newer recommended) can access the course(s) without a problem. The courses work with Windows (Windows 7 and newer), Macintosh (Mac OSX 10.10 and newer), and Linux (chromeOS). Participants will need a minimum screen size of 800x600 (the average size of a netbook) and good broadband (Minimum of 512kbps) Internet connection to participate in the online courses.
Accessing Your Online Course
One business day after completing registration, you will receive a confirmation email from the Registrar’s Office which includes a schedule, username and password.

Didn’t get the confirmation email?

Search for an email with subject line: “Your SVA Class Schedule” - sometimes the email goes to spam or junk.

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Reach out to registrar@sva.edu to request for the confirmation email to be resent.
Steps to Access Your Online Course
Login to myid.sva.edu

Select the Canvas LMS icon

The Canvas application is your online classroom. Here you can find your Zoom links and course materials such as supply lists, discussion boards, recorded lectures, etc. You will use Zoom for live video meetings. Your instructor will show you around how their particular course is organized.

For more information on Canvas, please visit the online courses section of the SVAIT User Guide.
Don’t see your course in Canvas?

You should see your course on your Canvas dashboard by 5:00 PM one day before the first class session.

If you are still having trouble finding your course through Canvas, please reach out to olt@sva.edu
Issues logging in?

Reach out to helpdesk@sva.edu .
Trying to access the Adobe Creative Suite?

Please reference the SVA User Guide here for further instruction.

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