Elements and Performance Criteria
- Analyse approaches to design requirements
- Analyse the design requirements for particle systems, fluids and bodies outlined in the brief and organisational documents
- Identify where the advanced simulated effects will fit into the production pipeline
- Identify the factors that may influence the design approach to creating advanced simulated effects
- Demonstrate the application of advanced simulated effects
- Review the media and techniques that may inspire ideas for simulated effects
- Respond to the brief and documents, and provide solutions to the creation of advanced simulated effects for 3-D environments
- Present design ideas and design considerations, with justification of the choice of advanced simulated effects to the relevant personnel
- Plan approach to simulated effects
- Adapt and finalise the design according to feedback from the relevant personnel
- Identify skills and processes required for creating advanced simulated effects systems
- Source and gather reference materials, and maintain a portfolio of these references
- Plan a time line to create the advanced simulated effects
- Produce particles, fluids and bodies for review
- Use programming languages to create code to assist, or produce, the advanced simulated effects
- Using toolsets, create prototype of advanced simulated effects based on finalised design
- Implement physics and forces to the advanced simulated effects, to produce the desired outcome
- Conduct testing
- Review the results, and present the created effects, to the relevant personnel for feedback and discussion about the implementation of the effects, in accordance to the requirements of the design
- Finalise advanced simulated effects
- Adapt the advanced simulated effects and design if necessary, according to feedback
- Refine the advanced simulated effects
- Present the finalised advanced simulation effects in the requested form, including the pre-production portfolio, demonstrating project research and development for evaluation, and review, by the relevant personnel