Course description for 2026/27
CG Art Fundamentals
CGA1003
Course description for 2026/27
CG Art Fundamentals
CGA1003
This course provides a foundational basis for CG-art creation from a technical perspective, as well as a contextual understanding of the field.
In this introductory course, students gain insights into 3D-graphics and foundational skills for CG art creation. They model, UV-map and texture simple CG-assets, adhering to technical standards. These practice-based components serve as the basis for assessment.
In addition, we contextualise CG as an evolving field and place it within a broader art context.
Restricted to students at the Bachelor studies in CG art and Animation, Games and Entertainment Technology, Film and TV production and connected study programs at our international partner institutions
After completing the course, the student can:
Knowledge
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic technical standards of CG-art content
- Demonstrate a basic proficiency with CG-art production, adhering to technical standards
Skills
- Use a proper file-structure and adhere to naming convention
- Plan and refine a concept for a CG-asset production
- Use polygonal modelling approaches to establish legal geometry (quad based)
- UV-unwrap meshes, considering texture-seams, maintaining even texel-density and minimum distortion
- Texture a model, making use of various image maps to control a PBR material
- Make a basic presentation render
General competence
- Produce artistic content using computer graphics
In addition to the semester fee and curriculum literature, it is assumed that the student has a laptop computer at his/her disposal.
Mandatory
Demo lectures and computer-lab tutorials
Evaluation using mid-term and final surveys. Students are also encouraged to participate in the central quality surveys.
Assignment (OP) - individual (100/100)
- 3D model
Graded: Pass/Fail
Generating responses using ChatGPT or similar generative artificial intelligence and submitting them wholly or partially as your own work is considered cheating.
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