 Okay. So, let me welcome you back. I will be talking about the course called basic 3D animation, which is titled the nomenclature used is SKANI 101X. Now, this there was a question about why this SKANI and what is this significance of this short form. So, that just to explain you this is a skill development course. Therefore, we have started a series under the acronym SK for that and ANI meaning animation. Therefore, SKANI 101X. Whenever we offer course on advanced animation and other things, we will have SKANI 102 or 202 or 302 or now since so on and so forth. We also offered another course in the same series of skill development, but it was based on architecture. Therefore, we titled it SKARC and that was SKARC 101 and that was about architectural visualization. Nowadays, lots of architects get the request to create a walkthrough of their drawings and not necessarily it is good always that architects spend their time in doing those walkthroughs. They are good at doing their drawings, but there should be some operator to convert those drawings into walkthrough because that does not require much of architectural knowledge. So, I had designed this course specifically with the target audience of non-architects who are good in computers and visualization. So, we have found out that almost 30 percent of the audience the participants who took my course were able to get out of the course which is a huge number compared to the standard practice of 10 to 8 to 10 percent. But most importantly, I have seen that they are already assisting some architects in converting their drawings to architectural visualization. So, that was one of the very nice outcome of that. Okay, I started off with that acronym point. So, we have SKANI which is Skill Development in Animation, we have SKARC which is Skill Development in Architecture and next semester onwards we are coming up with Skill Development in Gaming. So, it will be called SKGAM. Not to repeat, but for gaming it would be prerequisite to have the animation course, the basics of blender in place. Although I hate to call a course with the name of the software, it goes against my ethics of my own ethics also, that it should not be the software which should be taught, it should be the concept which would be taught. So, we only had this nomenclature for our first course because we wanted to popularize blender as a name. Now, we have removed that. So, all other courses now are called 3D Architectural Visualization or Computer Gaming. So, that would be the name of the course. It is incidental that we will be teaching gaming using a open source tool called Blender. So, and the reason is that because we have open source software in our hand, after the course is done or during the course whenever students want to practice their concepts, it would be essential for them to have access to a software and with Maya or 3D Max that is not possible. Although you have academic licenses, they are not possible to be carried home. So, you have to do it only in the colleges. Therefore, we chose Blender and that allows each and every participant to practice in their own space at home free of cost. So, that's the whole logic behind this thread of skill development courses at IIT Bombay. What I am showing right now on screen is some of the output of these students in the past who have completed the course. The reason I am showing you and you can keep going with the slides now without waiting for my signal because you can see the diversity of different objects. For example, we tell them to do a chair. We never tell them that it should have only three rods at the back and two armrests and all other things and students are going in their own way of experimenting with modeling, texturing, lighting, trying various materials and various textures, lighting conditions. Even in the form, they are experimenting a lot. That is the reason. So, for example, the Crown Assignment has been explored by various people in various ways and the beauty of the whole course is that because we have these open-ended assignments, it is possible for participants to express in their own ways. So, just pause here. So, the assignment was pretty simple that you have to get a donut as a basic shape in 3D and just pull some of the faces to make a crown. So, that was what I had told in my lecture and then I left the lecture with a sentence that here is assignment to create a crown. You go ahead and explore this thing in your own ways and you can use your own textures, materials, you want a gold crown or you want a iron crown or whatever metal you want to use. But people went ahead, explored various options available on the web, searched for videos, found out how to create the gold effect, how to create shining jewels and all other things and started doing these things. It didn't stop there. What happened is that when somebody posted this, the persons who were looking at the discussion forum submissions, they started asking that person, how did you do that? And I told, I requested that person. In fact, that person is a teacher himself. So, I didn't know, for me it was just a name, Atec. So, I said, okay, dear Atec, can you explain? And that person said, okay, let me know how to do that. And I pointed him to Professor Kandan's project of spoken tutorials, how to create a spoken tutorial. So, that link I pasted on my discussion forum, saying that here is a process of how to create a spoken tutorial. If you are interested, please do a small spoken tutorial about how you did this assignment and post it back onto the discussion forum for the benefit of others. Within seven days, that person did a wonderful job of a video of explaining all the nuances required for doing this and actually copied all the strategies of creating a spoken tutorial. For example, present the outline upfront in the video, like what is the learning objective of this video? What is the software version I am using? So, what are the stages? All that he did without actually me telling him, it was only taken up from the documentation of spoken tutorial, of course, first thing. And also the videos which were already available for him from my course. So, put together, that came up. This triggered a series of submissions in that direction. So, suddenly people started exploring metals now because metals were not taught to them and they started exploring metals and they created some smooth effects. Somebody was trying to show sharper effects and things like that. Even up to this point where they combined metal with cloth and velvet and matte finish pearls with the glittering diamond. So, all those things. I am amazed at the fact that participants are capable of so much and we just need to have that trigger in them. So, that was what I realized that if you do provide that much of trigger, the output is amazing and that is what we want to do at the end of the day. Everyone of us wants to do that. So, in a nutshell, go next, what is it? Is there any other thing? Okay, there are some. So, assignment was create a chess piece of your choice. And people created entire chess board and with various styles of, I think, yeah, they added emotions to the chess board. All these things, why I'm showing is that this has gone beyond the course. And this is what I think is the biggest achievement of the course called SKNI-101X. That has gone beyond it. Look at this. This is piece of art, actually. The person has not only created a model of the chess piece, but has added other dimensions like reflections, the cuts. You can actually feel the material, that how shiny it is, how soft it is or other things. So, this is, I think, according to the person here, Anish from Calicut. So, Anish is actually a content creator in the EMRC. So, he is an educational media research center Calicut. So, he is an employee of EMRC. And he just kept on doing certain things, amazing me with various inputs he had. Not only that, so when I wanted to scale up and there was a request from NIT Calicut to have a course for them, I requested Anish that maybe you can go and talk to them. And he obliged, went there, he gave a talk there and he had been providing constant support. So, the model which has evolved over a period of time is that Sabir can't be a sufficient person to cater to the huge demand coming up every now and then. So, this is another submission from the architecture course where they have tried to actually touch base all possible options within the architecture requirement like carpets and leather and a TV which is actually emitting video. Such kind of things also they have tried to do. Go ahead. Yeah, so this is another one, some basic ones. The point I wanted to make was at three levels. So, one is that, that is also very much what I have received in the box here. Although there are only three papers here, but I think if I narrate these questions, probably everyone agrees to that question. So, I'll just take it in the order which I feel is right. So, this is a course on 3D animation. So, can you just show the course? We have started this course around two months back. I'm re-offering this course, but the important point to note here is that this course is offered right now in a self pace mode, which means that the day you register on the course, you will see all the eight chapters in one go. So, there is no timeline based delivery that every week after week we will be delivering some content. So, all the chapters will be available on the first day itself. All the assignments will be available on the first day and also the quizzes which are the assessment options also will be available on the first day itself. So, when you register for the course and start looking at it, it is up to you how you want to finish it. You can take a call to finish it in two days, weeks or months. It's up to you. And as I keep telling the students whenever I meet them, it is just matter of not watching one movie in a week and watching these videos instead and you should be able to finish this course in four weeks. Because typically a chapter consists of 40 to 50 minutes of video content. I expect another 40 to 50 minutes of hands-on work, which is told in those videos. And another 40 to 50 minutes of actually solving assignment or a quiz, whichever is associated in that particular chapter. So, that's all it takes for a chapter to be complete and you can avoid in that direction. Also, because MOOCs are open-ended, you can take two questions in the quiz today and then take the rest of the quiz later on. It doesn't matter. It is open. So, the first question here is that if this is the course, then what is the prerequisite for this course? Who can take this course? The answer to that is anybody who is well versed with computers and has a passion to learn a new thing is a potential candidate for this course. Absolutely no prerequisite as such. People actually ask me, can my child take this? She is very much fond of animation. And I don't know, who is not fond of animation? That's a big question. So, most of yours are. And in fact, whenever I ask this question, a lot of people associate animation with cartoon. Right? And the moment I say cartoon, a lot of people associate that with Tom and Jerry. But there are also other aspects of animation, which we are trying to explore here. Unfortunately, one of our important website is not working right now. But you can just write down the address of that, which is called oscar.itb.ac.in. That Oscar has nothing to do with the awards. This is about open source courseware animations repository. So, this website has a bunch of various animations in engineering, which are freely downloadable and you can use them in your own education systems. But moreover, it also has a repository of blender models required for physics and chemistry laboratories. So, it has vernier caliper and it also has test tubes and beakers and all sorts of things. In addition, it also has a process of how you can download these models, how you can modify these models and how you can create animation of your own using these models. So, entire process is explained there. But in order to actually do that, you will need some background of blender. Therefore, use this course. So, that's how I put it. You can just use this website. So, about prerequisite, no minimum age criteria. I just leave it to you. What you feel is a minimum age for people to handle computers is the only thing you can think of. Otherwise, there is no such thing. Now, the second question is can every discipline, students from any discipline learn animation, there are people who have used animation in various formats and various types. And I'm going to show you two examples of that. Then second question is mostly hands-on training will be effective in this course. Are you supporting that? Yes, we are supporting that. That is why there are hands-on assignment in every chapter and you saw some results here. Of course, there is a discussion forum where people post something which is not there in assignment also. Sometimes I have received something which is we had not asked for. And people just out of their own curiosity or experimentation have been doing that and they just keep posting it. Now, the trend has become that they challenge each other. So, they say, okay, can you do this? And just two days back, there was a post from a student saying that can someone do a goodie in 3D? So, the goodie part was happening. So, they said, okay, can we try fluttering of the cloth with the goodie thing shown in 3D? So, yeah, such things are happening. What are the major application areas of this 3D animation where it can be applied or used? Yes, I'm going to show some of them. There is one more question, how to attend tomorrow's session? Okay, so I just skipped a couple of slides ahead. By the way, for people who are already enrolled and there are 2,700 students right now who are enrolled for this course and some of the remote center coordinators who are here are aware of it. There are many remote center coordinators who are not aware that there are students in their own remote center who have enrolled and obviously because they don't know that this such a course is running and students are interested. So, we have organized a view session tomorrow at 2 o'clock, 2 to 3, to answer some of the queries of the students who are already enrolled and for students who want to join and have some queries in their mind or for faculty members who are who need some more queries to be answered. So, all of you can make a note and that answers the second question here. I request you to conduct the session before 3.30 p.m. probably 2.30 to 3.30. Well taken care of. So, we will be conducting this session tomorrow. Now, I have two small agenda items here. One of the agenda items is from the audience where I wanted to talk to three people here. One is Professor Anand Murthy. Where is he? If you carefully look at him, it doesn't come across in in you can't think of that but in some sense of scanning one over next, he's the student and I was the teacher unfortunately or fortunately and he met me saying that I took your course and I enjoyed it. So, I just wanted him to yeah. I took your course the earlier time not now. Can you one over next? Yeah, yeah. Okay. I was just interested in blender. Okay. And I used blender on Slackware. Okay. So, I thought of experimenting on that. Yes. So, Professor Murthy is very much interested in open source and he was trying to see how we can add blender to various things. So, when we are discussing about gaming, he just mentioned that I would be utilizing it in his own way. I have Professor Nagapan here. Yeah. So, maybe you can. So, his college also had a lot of registrations for this course and I used to pester him a lot asking what is happening with the students. Thanks sir. Of course, I took the blender course first time when you launched it and because it was instructor led, I was not able to take a few quizzes in between and because of that anyway. I got the certificate at last submitting few assignments but I couldn't do up to the maximum but I suggested that to my students and when I took up elective game programming last year, I made all the students to register in your courses and I would like to mention about many of them have got the certificates and good grades and I would like to mention about one particular student who was Yugeshwar and that student had lot of areas in all the subjects but he got interest in this. He took up this course and one day he came and told me, sir, I have cleared game programming as well and in the first attempt and I have got blender certificate as well as this 3D architectural visualization certificate. Yeah, yeah and similar student actually I met him and I maintain a blog on my website where I've posted a document about him so his name was Roby and same thing happened, he called me one day saying that, sir, I have areas in other courses but I'm interested in animation, can I take it? I'm happy to report that now he has cleared all his backlogs and not only that he's one of the better speakers in the college now he's from Loyola College, Chennai and now he's one who goes out of the college and propagates about blender and talks and he has in fact gone into the mentoring stage so he was my teaching assistant, he's right now teaching assistant when I'm teaching this course the fourth time now so yeah so there are some kind of so you can show the second success story maybe. Yeah, so Suryash, Suryajwar, go down and just go down there is a video this guy made so yeah play that this person also learned blender from the course and then later on started using it for creating small videos and when I met him last I said what are you using this for so he said sir I'm very happy now because this supports my weekend pocket money now I'm not dependent on my parents anymore I just create some small videos like this and which are required for the gaming industry and I make my pocket money out of this so people are using it for various things just stop this and just show math amazing last one so that you guys were told we have showed him life we have given him life and one day he said I met Sameer sir and I have got my things so clear thank you so much sir right this is one of the projects which was done by a couple of students who completed the blender course and what they did was creating a game for school children play that and you see this maze which is created in blender and the entire game logic is also built in blender where the students have to stand in front of the particular computer are you playing it yeah yeah if you stand in front of the computer and computer has a connect associated with it so after the t-pose is scanned you can see that barley type of drawing there in the corner and now if you bend down the the android character will start moving on the track and you want to turn right so take the left hand out and after you do that the connect will recognize that convert it into signal go to blender a game engine blender game engine will tell blender and what you see on the screen will be this kind of animation and finally you'll be able to play the game we saw that this works very nice in fact some of the village schools are using this for as an attraction item for people to come back after the lunch hour because most of the time because of the lunch hour people don't turn back so i have some friends who are using this escape yeah so in a in short i wanted to share that there are multiple avenues where blender can be used and there are people who are using it for different things blender has been also very popular in commercial filmmaking nowadays couple of advertisement makers are preferring blender over maya and max simply because of the cost factor and very soon i can see even commercial filmmaking converting into this but the biggest industry currently which can employ engineers with the background of graphics and animation is the gaming industry and therefore we are coming up this with this basic course in gaming and since this course is mandatory or a prerequisite for that i would request all of you to keep that document which i have given i hope everyone has a copy of that if someone doesn't have it you can ask me or amit who is around yeah he's in that corner and i'm in this corner so if you have if you need a copy of that you can just take it and put it up on the notice board for students and we would be having this regular practice of having the aviu sessions so in case you miss tomorrows doesn't matter we'll have it every week and we have tried to encourage participation in in these courses by using other mediums such as we have a facebook page of our course and we have a whatsapp group of the coordinators who are doing it across so these measures have helped me actually push the passing percentage from what was nine percent when i offered it first to almost 30 percent when i offered it third time so this is how things are gradually changing and like i said more than that i'm more happy to see some kind of submissions which you just saw right now so thank you very much i hope i have answered most of the questions and i also kept on time for presah kandan to start his very interesting session on plickers we had our team had a question about gaming mainly they wanted they're teaching some virtual reality also would that be i want to know if that's part of gaming from your perspective and they want to know if blender can be used to build some simple the simple virtual reality kind of you know walkthroughs or interactions yeah or both yes i have used one of the teams here has been working with nid bangalore where we were working on the temples of i'm not getting that name but i think temples in south india where so we have blender being a open source thing and based on python that makes it makes the life easy of lot of people so we had we are included in that we had augmented reality with blender so in fact one of the series of my summer internship wish list used to be tracking with various hardware things or software things so virtual reality with this so we also so we had a virtual reality walkthrough of that temple created using blender where the model was blender and then we exported the 3d vertices for the walkthrough and we had good results of that so we have that we have already done that yeah that's possible thank you okay thank you