The following courses are not for sale to individual students, they are to be purchased directly by universities for their students.
Individual students can purchase their own private training by purchasing one of our bespoke packages, such as Unreal Engine 4.
These courses are crucial for students to be able to present their projects using contemporary techniques, such as 3D rendering and Real-Time VR visualisation.

Level 3 award in 3D visualisation

This course is designed to teach offline rendering for 3D visualisation of different projects such as architecture, engineering and product design.
Students will learn how to create still images and video animations (such as camera fly-through) for their projects.
Students will use 3Ds Max for this and they will learn 3D modelling, materials, lighting, rendering and animation. They will also learn how to import their projects from other applications such as AutoCad & Revit.

Course Outline

Day 1

1. Interface:
2. Interface and menus
3. Terminologies
4. Projects set up and configurations
5. Navigation
6. Viewports
7. Keyboard Shortcuts
8. Different view modes
9. Transformation tools
10. Grid tools
11. Snap Tools
12. Axis Constraints

Day 2

1. Creating basic 3D objects
2. Standard Primitives
3. Extended Primitives
4. Shapes
5. Converting 2D objects to 3D objects
6. Subdivisions
7. Editable Poly
8. Editable Mesh
9. Modelling terminologies
10. Vertices, Edges, Borders, Polygons and Elements
11. Efficient modelling techniques
12. Seeing the final product in 3D before initiating modelling
13. Creating environmental objects
14. Building and Architectural modelling
15. Technical modelling
16. Symmetry
17. Meshsmooth and Turbosmooth
18. Creating 3D objects from 2D objects

Day 3

​Simple transformation animation
Animation techniques
Timing animations
Animating objects on a path
Camera Flythrough animation
Settings Animation
Animating Materials
Copy and pasting animations

Day 4

1. Material Editor interface
2. Types of material editor modes
3. Textures and Materials
4. Native 3Ds Max materials
5. Importing external textures
6. What makes a material realistic?
7. Realistic material creation techniques
8. Controlling materials and textures
9. UVW Mapping
10. Projections
11. Material libraries
12. How materials work with render engines
13. Different Map channels
14. Understanding Map channels
15. Working with Channels
16. Multi/Sub-object Materials

Day 5

1. Creating standard lights
2. Omni lights, spot lights, Direct Lights
3. Managing shadows
4. Shadow types
5. Sky Light
6. Ambient Light
7. Creating cameras from orthographic views
8. Creating cameras in perspective
9. Creating cameras on current view location
10. Changing camera settings
11. Rendering
12. Scanline Renderer
13. Mental Ray Renderer
14. Ambient occlusion rendering
15. Material Override
16. Managing environment

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Level 3 award in Real-time visualisation and VR

This course is designed to teach real-time rendering & VR for 3D visualisation of different projects such as architecture, engineering and product design.
Students will learn how to create real-time visualisation for VR & screen projects.
They will use Unreal Engine 4 for this and will learn 3D how to import their projects, set up lighting & materials, and also how to create interactivity in their projects. Such interactivity could include allowing the user to change the material & texture of different items in real-time, place objects in the world and make changes to the environment.
The following video is a show-reel of Unreal Engine 4's capabilities.

Course Outline

Day 1

1. ​Correctly creating projects
2. Introduction to interface
3. Modes/Outliners/Content Browser.
4. Navigation
5. Understanding Unreal Engine 4 framework
6. Understanding and using the grid system
7. Creating assets with Unreal Engine 4
8. BSP vs Static Meshe
9. Understanding Real Time VS pre-rendered
10. Understanding Shadows and Lightmaps
11. Introduction to Materials
12. Creating lights
13. Introduction to Volumes
14. Understanding Collisions

Day 2

1. Understanding different attributes of lights
2. Introduction to Particles
3. Importing models and textures
4. Importing animated objects
5. Advanced Material Modification
6. Creating landscapes
7. Creating Bendable Landscape Materials
8. Implementing and editing Foliage

Day 3

1. Understanding Blueprints
2. Introduction to Visual Scripting
3. Understanding script structures
4. Introduction to:
   1. Events
   2. Custom Events
   3. Functions
   4. Timers
   5. Variables
5. Level Blueprint & Communication
6. Quality Assurance methods
7. Heads Up Display (HUD)
8. Effecting lights
9. Changing light colours (Real-Time)

Day 4

1. Introduction to VR
2. Creating Start Menu
3. Creating Pause Menu
4. Understanding inputs
5. Giving Control to client
6. Allowing players to interact with the world
7. Outline creation for interactive items
8. Effecting environment in real-time

Day 5

1. Optimising projects for VR
2. Interactivity in VR
3. VR & Navigation Mesh
4. Effecting VR motion controllers
5. Action Mapping and Axis Mapping
6. Multi-functioning buttons
7. Completing VR projects

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About Courses

Duration: Each course is 5 days long. Usually classes start from 10 am to 5 pm, with an hour lunch break, however this can be changed by agreement.
We're quite flexible for the delivery of our courses. For example a course can be delivered in 5 weeks, one day a week on a weekend. This will also give students a week to work on the topics thought each day and ask questions in the following session.
Arrangements can also be made for classes to run for 10 session during evenings, half a day for each session. This can be done with a 15% increase on the course fees.

Location: We will be running these courses on your campus.

Student Capacity: Our courses do not have a maximum capacity. The capacity of learners is limited by the number of computers available to us at your campus. If there are more than 15 students attending, the university can ask for an additional tutor to be present for the training for an additional £1000 per course.

What we need: We will need a computer room with the following programs installed:
Autodesk's 3D Studio Max (free license for educational institutions)
Adobe Photoshop
Epic's Unreal Engine 4 (Free license. Only required for our Virtual Reality Course)
Any software students have used for the creation of their previous projects (e.g. AutoCad, Revit, Sketchup, etc.)

Prices: The price of each course is £6,500. This price is for as many students as the computer room can hold. 
We also charge £39 per student for the administration cost of the qualification.