Animating a Landscape with VUE

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Free Online Course: Animating a Landscape with VUE provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Animating a Landscape with VUE is taught by Aaron F. Ross.

Overview
  • Create an animated digital landscape with photorealistic effects using VUE. Learn about modeling natural materials, lighting, keyframing, and rendering the animation.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Using the exercise files
    • Setting application options
    • Choosing display options
    1. Scene Layout
    • Importing a model
    • Framing the camera shot
    • Sculpting a terrain
    • Adding water
    • Scattering plants
    • Populating with the EcoSystem Painter
    2. Lighting
    • Directing sunlight
    • Editing atmosphere parameters
    • Adding a cloud layer
    • Editing a cloud function
    • Filtering cloud density
    • Controlling exposure
    3. Materials
    • Managing materials
    • Editing materials
    • Material nodes in the Function Graph
    • Adding node outputs with a Combiner
    • Creating a gradient color map
    • Fine-tuning with a Slope Filter
    • Bump mapping
    • Displacement mapping
    • Compositing mixed materials
    4. Animation and Rendering
    • Auto-keyframing in the Timeline
    • Manual keyframing
    • Function curve editing in the Animation Graph
    • Rendering a preview
    • Adding wind to plants
    • Adding cloud wind
    • Keyframing the atmosphere
    • Setting Render options
    • Rendering animation
    Conclusion
    • Next steps