Course:
DESMA 131 
3D Modeling & Motion
Term: Spring 2025 
Instructor: Breanna Browning 
TA: Elliot Yu
Course Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 2:00 - 4:50 pm, Room 4230 Broad 
Office Hours: 5:00 - 5:30 pm after class, by appointment

Contact: bbrowning@ucla.edu
TA: elliotbyu@ucla.edu








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BREANNA BROWNING 
3D MODELING & MOTION

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DESMA 131 : SP25 




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Wednesday / May 21, 2025
Blender 4
  • Cameras 
  • Animation 
  • Rendering

Wednesday / May 21, 2025
Blender 2
  • Modeling (continued)
  • Scripting 
  • AI Rendering 

Blender 3
  • Special tools 
  • Addons 
  • Physics 
  • Rigging 
  • Grease Pencil 

Monday / May 19, 2025
Intro to Blender
  • Installation on laptops
  • Interface, navigation, tools
  • Basic rendering

Monday / May 5, 2025
Advanced Animation
  • Advanced motion and animation techniques
  • MASH 

Wednesday / April 30, 2025
Characters
  • Basic character modeling and rigging 
  • Mixamo + Maya

Monday / April 28, 2025

Movement Basics
  • Keyframing and object movement basics
  • Animate objects
  • Camera animations
  • Rendering animations

    Wednesday / April 23, 2025
    Required
    Advanced Texturing and Rendering
    • Advanced materials
    • Procedural texturing
    • UV Mapping
    • Lighting
    • Advanced Arnold rendering 

    Optional
    3d painting materials with Substance Painter
    • Getting started with  Substance Painter


    Monday / April 21, 2025

    New tools to generate form
    • Text-to-3D AI,
    • Image-to-3D AI,
    • NURFS,
    • photogrammetry.


    Wednesday / April 16, 2025

    Kitbashing 
    • Introduction to Kitbashing
    • Importing models
    • Customizing models from the internet
    • Cleaning models

    Monday / April 14, 2025

    Texturing + Rendering Basics
    • Texturing + materials 
    • Fundamentals of rendering in Maya 

    Wednesday / April 9, 2025

    Bespoke asset modeling 2
    • NURBS basics
    • nCloth
    • Advanced modeling techniques


    Monday / April 7, 2025
    Bespoke asset modeling
    • Fundamentals of polygon modeling in Maya


    Wednesday / April 2, 2025

    Introduction to Maya
    • What is Maya and why would you use it? 
    • Interface tour + getting started