Visualeyes : An Interactive Learning Tool To Ameliorate 3D Animation Skills Refining And Promote Self-Learning For Novice Animators

Liew, Jyi Haow (2013) Visualeyes : An Interactive Learning Tool To Ameliorate 3D Animation Skills Refining And Promote Self-Learning For Novice Animators. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Majority of students taking up 3D animation courses are due to being inspired and amazed by the beautiful and realistic graphics that have been and can be produced in 3D animation. However, there are cases where there are students giving up half-way through the course. Based on these cases, there are actually several reasons why those situations happened such as lack exposure to the world of 3D animation, daunting tools and techniques, lacking of information to develop animation techniques and skills. To overcome these problems, students would normally look for tutorials in the form of books, videos and online resources. Most tutorial sources may be helpful to some but takes up alot of time to understand the steps and procedures from those tutorials. Furthermore, it may not be effective and even demotivate students to learn due to reasons such as unclear descriptions, lack of reference image or examples, lengthy video and confusing instructions. In fact, there are not many alternative resources in learning 3D animation. Therefore, this project’s purpose is to research and develop an alternative or method for novice animators to learn and educate themselves in 3D animation development. In this project, an interactive learning tool integrated with a 3D animation approach will be developed to help and encourage more students to take up and learn 3D animation easily and effectively. With the developed interactive learning tool, third year BITM students from UTeM are given a chance to use the tool to be tested. From the results and analysis, a majority of students accepted and are satisfied with the interactive learning tool. This shows that the interactive learning tool has potential to be used as an alternative way for students and novice animators to learn and educate themselves effectively in 3D animation.

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