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Game Art & Design 2

Game Art & Design 2

Game Art & Design 2 (GAD2) focuses on advanced technical art pipelines: character sculpting, retopology, game animation blendspaces, team production sprints, and capstone publishing.

Unit 1: Character Blockout & Anatomy
Character Proportions & Concept
Human anatomy landmarks, heroic proportions, and reference silhouettes.
MODULE
Character Bust Sculpt
Sculpt a character bust focusing on facial planes and primary forms.
ASSIGNMENT
Unit 2: Retopology & Deformation Edge Flow
Character Topology & Edge Flow
Facial edge loops, shoulder/elbow deformation rings, and quad optimization.
MODULE
Low-Poly Retopology Pass
Retopologize a high-poly sculpt to a clean animatable mesh under 15k triangles.
ASSIGNMENT
Unit 3: Biped Rigging & Weight Painting
Biped Rigging & Weight Painting
Armature creation, IK/FK bone constraints, vertex weight gradients, and test poses.
MODULE
Biped Rig & Weighting Pass
Rig a humanoid character mesh with clean joint deformation.
ASSIGNMENT
Unit 4: Locomotion & Gameplay Cycles
Walk & Run Cycles
Contact, down, passing, and up poses, hip swaying, and loop timing.
MODULE
Walk & Run Cycle Set
Animate a looped walk and run cycle matching game locomotion specs.
ASSIGNMENT
Unit 5: Team Production Sprints & Agile Pipeline
Agile Sprints & Task Boards
Kanban boards, burndown velocity, sprint milestones, and peer code reviews.
MODULE
Team Sprint Milestone 1
Execute Sprint 1 deliverables on the class collaborative capstone repo.
ASSIGNMENT
Unit 6: Capstone Showcase & Portfolio Defense
Portfolio Review & Interview Prep
Technical art breakdown reels, live project defense, and industry presentation.
MODULE
Capstone Showcase & Defense
Present a completed game project and defend technical art contributions.
ASSIGNMENT
Game Art & Design 1Intro to Media Careers