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Javascript for ToonBoom Hub
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Feb 1, 2023
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# Syllabus
# Course Timeline
# Unit 1 - Project Management
Project Management
# Weeks 1-4:
- Knowledge Management
- Learning
- Naming Conventions
- Style Guides
- Team work
- Version control
# Unit 2 - Scripting
# Weeks 5:
- Introduction to scripting
- Fundamentals of programming
- variables
- control flow
- data types
- practice!
- debugging
- Documentation
# Week 6:
- Intermediate Concepts in Scripting
- Inheritence
- Loops
- Higher-order functions
- Regular expressions
- Async
# Week 7:
- Toonboom extension
- setting up enviornment
- tool building overview
- QT as a framework
- the documentation
- building a basic tool
# Unit 3 - 3D for 2D with Blender
# Week 8: Introduction to 3D and final project introduction:
- Final project proposal
- 3D fundimentals
- History of 3D
- How 3D apps work under the hood
- Similarities between apps
- Types of 3D data
- Spacial problem solving
- Topology
- Blender introduction
- viewport
- basic modeling tools
- basic overview of workspaces
- SHORTCUTS!
- modifiers
- Attempt to model something
# Week 9: Topology and modeling
- topology
- edge-flow
- correcting bad geometry
- Modeling techniques
# Week 10: Surfacing
- How 3D surfaces work
- UVs
- theory
- unwrapping
- tips and tricks
- Textures
- surfaces + UVs make texturing possible
- Shading
- What are shaders
- how to make a shader
# Week 11: Spring Break
# Week 12: Rendering
- Rendering
- What is renderings
- What are renderers
- Types of renderers
- How are they used in production
- How can we use them
# Week 13: 2D in Blender
- Grease Pencil
- What is it?
- Why should you use it?
- How can we use it?
- Cell shading
- What is cell shading
- NPR shading
- How is it used in production
# Week 14: 3D in Toonboom
- 3D -> 2D pipelines
- exporting for toonboom
- importing into toonboom
- setup once in toonboom
- shading and rendering
# Week 15: Animation, rigging and effects
- General overview of animation, rigging, and effects.
- Some basic workflows for each in blender
# Week 16: Compositing
- What is compositing
- Why should you learn it
- What software is used in industry
- Color management
- Compositing in Blender
- Compositing in fusion
# Week 17: work week
# Final Project Due