CAD Animation Programs

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Divisionbanner

This Month's Featured CAD Animation Program

Interested in video game animation? Using CAD as an animation tool is an option. If you're interested in mastering the art CAD animation, keep reading to learn what your education will entail.

CAD Animation Principles and Techniques

As a design student, you can use CAD animation to bring characters to life. Here are some principles and techniques of CAD animation that you will learn:

Basic computer-aided drafting skills using the latest software
Work with Cartesian coordinate system, drawing setups, drawing aids, and use of layers.
Drawing geometric shapes and basic dimensioning
Construction of 3 dimensional objects: wireframe construction, surface and solid modeling and extrusions.
3D editing, 3D views, and rendering.

Coming to Life in CAD

After you're proficient drawing in CAD, you'll need expertise in animation. Here is some other CAD animation coursework:

Drawing essentials
Recording animations
Using a storyboard
Working with paths
Assembly animation techniques
Screen capture and frame rate
Simulating motion
Stepping through an animation
Playback speed

You may have to be on your math game when working in 3D CAD animation. 3D math might be essential in order to make scripts run well. For example: in order to make a bee fly around, you may have to plot the splines that it will travel, as well as align it in the spline so that it is facing in the right direction of travel.

With the right education and coursework, you can become a skilled CAD animator, and creator of the next popular video game craze.

FIND A CAD ANIMATION SCHOOL/PROGRAM.....