A list of online workshops covering practical skills of gamification software development, short film creation with animation effect will be made available in March. Students who are interested are welcome to join.
Create Augmented Reality Applications
Do you know what ‘Vuforia Engine’ is? Are you interested to create Augmented Reality (AR) applications? Come and join the online workshop ‘Create Augmented Reality Applications’ to have a comprehensive understanding of Vuforia Engine, a software platform in Unity.
You will learn how to create an AR project in Unity and export it as a mobile app for use on Android/ iOS smartphone.
Date: 1 March 2022 (Tue)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
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Unreal Engine (UE) Game Development Workshops – Basic class 1
This session covers the fundamentals of Unreal Engine and its tools, including the Unreal Editor interface, the various building blocks of the engine, and other important aspects you should know to begin your journey with Unreal Engine.
Date: 3 March 2022 (Thu)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
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Unreal Engine (UE) Game Development Workshops - Basic class 2
This session covers how to import art works created in external applications into Unreal Engine 4 software development environment and apply for use in visualization and interactive applications. Information on tools and techniques for building interactive environment and use level design will be covered. You will learn about how to render in subsystem to add lighting and shadowing, paste up materials and textures of objects including visual effects. Example will be used to illustrate post processing effect and the use of programming and scripting languages, add in tools to control Unreal Engine execution code at runtime.
Date: 8 March 2022 (Tue)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
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Using Magic Leap One in Unreal Engine (UE)
We will introduce the basics of using Magic Leap in Unreal Engine software game and utilize its many inputs to show case an architectural scale model. It covers setting up the Magic Leap Software Development Kit in Unreal Engine, importing a Revit model using the Datasmith plugin. Within the demo session, we will show case how to manipulate the architectural model with your head, hands, and motion controller in an augmented reality environment.
Date: 10 March 2022 (Thu)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
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Create trailer/film in Unreal Engine 5
The basic knowledge of Unreal Engine (UE) 5 and the recently popular plugin, Quixel Megascans, in UE5 will be introduced in this session.
It covers the installation and setup of UE5, using Quixel Megascans to create landscape and produce different environment, introducing different kinds of actors (such as lights and atmospherics) in UE5, importing free assets from Quixel Assets with the Megascans plugin, and demonstrate how to customize the models with open source software Blender. We will finally create and design a demonstration trailer of sci-fic spaceships and planet and render it as a short trailer/film in UE5.
Date: 15 March 2022 (Tue)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
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Animated Content Production – Vyond (Basic class)
This workshop is designed for beginners to learn the skills in creating animated video using the cloud-based 2D animation platform 'Vyond'.
You will learn how to use the animation editor and character creator to design storyboard and enhance the animation with dynamic data charts, character body mechanics and emotion, text-to-speech dialogs, background music and sound effects. To make a unique design, you can also upload images, logos, photos and video clips to the animation.
Date: 17 March 2022 (Thu)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
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Animated Content Production – Vyond (Intermediate class)
The intermediate level of ‘Animation Content Production' workshop will be offered to guide you the whole process of creating an entire service promotion video using Vyond and how to publish it.
Date: 22 March 2022 (Tue)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
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