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If your goal is to "Get in the Game", then we have many training workshops specifically designed to help you get the industry skills required by game studios! Each workshop focuses on a specific area of discipline with project lessons devised to give you a greater understanding of the tools and techniques needed to create great game art and level design.

We have workshops designed to help introduce beginner level students to a variety of required foundations such as modeling, UV layout and texture creation. For more experienced students, we offer advanced modeling, ZBrush sculpting & polypaint and game engine level design using Unreal UDK and Unity editing platforms.

• Digital Painting Essentials
• Maya for Games: 3D Tools and Production Techniques
• ZBrush for Games: Digital Sculpting and Polypainting
• 3DS Max Environment Creation and Production Techniques
• Introduction to Game Theory, Design & Production
• More available

Interested in learning the industry secrets and techniques of animated filmmaking? If so, then look no further than our highly creative short film workshops, which teach the various techniques of each stage of production. Pre-production workshops include scripting, storyboarding, previz and set design composition.

We offer a variety of animation production workshops from character modeling and rigging setup, to beginner and advanced animation techniques such as character interaction and lip sync expressions. Additionally, students can collaborate on creating an original, professionally developed short film production.

• 2D Animation: Squash and Stretch!
• Rigging Essentials: Simple FK rigs
• Character Animation: Walks, Runs and Cycles
• Screen Writing, Storyboarding and Dialogue
• Look Development & Set Design
• More available

ZBrush is a digital sculpting application that has become widely used by many entertainment industries including Game and Film development. It's a powerful tool that allows artists to create a more professional look to their 3D modeled assets from character creation such as 'Avatar', 'The Hulk' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and including games such as 'Gears of Wars' and 'Uncharted 2'.

At 3DTA, we offer a variety of ZBrush workshops and Masterclasses designed to help both novice and professional artists alike. We frequently offer demonstrations by invited guest artists from local Seattle game studios and talents from around the world.

• ZBrush Workflow Essentials | duration: 1 Evening | fee: $129
• ZBrush Game Production | duration: 3 Evenings | fee: $359
• ZBrush Advanced Level Masterclasses | duration: 1 Full Day | fee: $259
• More available

Motion Capture or Performance Capture, has become a widely used technology now integrated into many Game and Film productions and is a much sought after skill by studios worldwide. Movies such as 'Polar Express' and 'Avatar' utilized mocap extensively in their production.

3DTA's new state-of-the-art motion capture studio offers students the highest caliber of skills training in the use of our in-house 12 camera OptiTrack system. Additionally, we offer many complementary character animation and pipeline workshops that can further develop your skills in this fast growing technology.

• Intro to Motion Capture | duration: 1 Full Day | fee: $129
• Mocap Workflow & Pipeline | duration: 3 Full Days | fee: $395
• Animation Layering & Game Techniques | duration: 3 Full Days | fee: $595
• Additional Character Animation workshops available

Learn Professional Puppetry for Television from master puppeteer Jonathan Little. Jonathan is a seasoned pro working in many phases of puppetry from construction to performance at large venues, web shows, television pilots, and promotional videos.

• Intro to Puppetry | duration: 1 Evening, Friday, July 15, Time: 6pm to 9pm | fee: $89
• Professional Puppetry | duration: 2 Full Days, Saturday and Sunday, July 16-17, Time: 10am to 4pm | fee: $259
• Discount if you purchase both workshops | fee: $299