+Three Week Comprehensive using Alias
for industrial, product and or graphic designers (This course is a WIA funded program) Call to inquire about federal monies that will pay for this course.

Course Duration: 120 hours

SolidWorks

> 3 Week Comprehensive > Level 1 > Level 2 > Level 3 rendering > Level 4 sheetmetal > Level 5 surfacing

Tuition: $3800.00 USD

Overview: Introduction or intermediate intensive in-deaph focus into 3D modeling and rendering utilizing Alias Studio. Learn basics of modeling and shading with a product designers.

This three week workshop can incorporate any other software we administer not just Alias Studio. For example an industrial designer may receive a grant or federal monies to take our three Alias workshops. We are flexible and accommodate our students. We offer extensive job search for our three week students as well. Everyone gets a job!

Typical Curriculum:
Week One: portfolio review, interface, modeling intensive.

Week Two: proving form, modeling techniques, develop models for third week renderings,data exchange, import to Pro/ENGINEER

Design Courses

> Idea Generation Facilitation > Marker Renderings for ENGINEERS

Rhino 3D

> Level 1 & 2 > Level 3 Rendering > Level 4 Adv. Nerbs

Wildfire for tooling. Rendering intensive.
Week

• Global render settings
• Familiarity with Interface
• Renderi ng realistic glass wit h tips and tricks for procedural renderings
• Creating curves and surfaces from curves. Nerbs modeling with curves and surfaces and trim.
• Serious crash course in modeling techniques and tools
• Proper use of lighting and shadows
• Proper use and kinds of environments
• Creation of maps, textures and shaders
• Special lighting effects
• Uses of test and final render
• Displacement, Procedural, etc.
• Post production tricks and final presentation project
• Cover Image Studio with detail
• This course can be customized for high end rendering experts or specific needs
• Focus on rounds and blends then forcing tangency
• Curvature issues in detail
• Course is customizable to focus upon any number of details such as rendering or modeling
• Customized, Procedural and Environment map
  

Composite image showing nerbs curves and shaded image together

Alias Studio render for quick showcase. Fog was used in this case to soften the imagery.

Render of Alias Studio model showing light reflections and car paint shader using Brazil.

Render of Alias Studio model showing light reflections and car paint shader using Brazil.

Discussions:

• Rendering realistic glass with tips and tricks for procedural renderings
• Discuss ways to avoid numerous early rendering mistakes of beginners or focus on high level rendering
• Tips and tricks to gain design advantage
• Discuss the job market in general and determine plan for individual student to enter or re-enter the job market.
  
• Discuss Direct modeling as a techniqe for building complex forms with ease.

Encouraged:

• Two day workshops are available in anything we teach is encouraged for all three week students.
• Work with individual or corporate projects.

Deliverables:

• login and password to Design Engine online tutors
• list of companies using Alias Studio with contact names

The Three Week Comprehensive course is our most popular. Some mix and match their three week workshop with a combination of Pro/ENGINEER and Alias. We receive quite a few designers who studied Rhino in ID school. Take Alias at Design Engine in order to take their skills to the next level. The great part of our three week program is that you set the pace as we steadily apply new or advanced tips and techniques that equip you for a future job. Plus we assist with that portfolio building.

Why Our "Hands On" Instruction is unique.

+UNIQUE Our courses are incredibly different from the rest.  Class size and style set the stage for the advantages.  Each class is purposely kept small - typically never larger than five pupils - so that the instructors have full capacity to focus on the students.  In fact, the average class size is two or three people.  Each and every class is independently customized for the students, depending on their beginning strengths and weaknesses, as well as their chosen career direction.  While everyone will get the same basic instruction on each module and each technique, the focus can and will differ between students and students wishes.    Design Engine does not sell or represent the software as many training facilities do.  This fully opens the arena for discussion on any bugs, software limitations, common problems, and the appropriate tricks and solutions to combat these issues and thus have a competitive edge on the job.

+TRAINING MISSION The training facility was built on the premise that the core to happiness is continuous learning.  The staff works very hard to do everything possible to prepare students for their next career move or for better functionality when they return to their existing jobs.  Cross training between students is highly encouraged.  Sometimes different students will purposely be given different material to challenge them so that they each take turns offering what they learned to the group.  There is no better way to learn something inside and out than to teach it to someone else!  

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