The areas where ZOLOS can help you:


Design Applications
3D Modeling for: Architecture and Urban Design
3D Modeling for Industrial Design, furniture, Exhibit and Displays and Sets
Lighting and Animation I and II
Blend of Colour Lighting and Animation (B1)


Workshop on demand(WOD) - half day sessions
Custom individual workshops designed to solve specific problems


Who are the trainers
All our trainers have degrees or have acquired extensive working experience in one or more of these disciplines: Architecture, Environmental Design, Industrial Design, Animators and effects professionals, video editors and cinematographers, rich media designers.

Format
Our training is divided into focused workshops, each student will be able to design their own training scope by selecting one or more workshops to achieve their goal. Our staff will help them assess and translate their needs into an efficient custom training structure.

Most of the workshops are 3 hours sessions including instruction time and hands-on. All our classes range from 1 to 6 people. Most of them are tailored to an individual or firm, and its applicability to a specific industry.

Training is offered during weekdays, or weekends.

Cost
All courses are priced per person and range from CAD $500 to CAD $1000. Discounts apply for companies training groups of two or more people. Call us to inquire.

Location
Most of the workshops can be provided on-site across Canada or US. In French or English in Quebec, in English everywhere else. In Toronto students can take the classes in our office centrally located or we can also deliver it on-site. Prices may vary in specific cases to accommodate customer's requirements and schedules.

When are the workshops offered
These courses are tailored on demand and are offered based on request.

Some of our clients include:
Ontario Science Centre, Transworld Marketing, Creativedisplayworks, Expographiq (QUE), Adamson Associates, Michael Wilson Architetcs, Rick Fisher Illustrator, CDA industries, Architectura (BC), IBI Group (AB), B & H Architects, Adamson Associates, Artisan Complete.

Design your own training course. This is how it works:


Example 1:
You are an Exhibit and Display Designer with basic computer graphic knowledge, you are comfortable using PC's or Macs.

Choose one or more workshops:
3D Modeling for Industrial Design, furniture, Exhibit and Displays: (D2)
Blend of Colour Lighting (CL1) and Animation: (B1)


Example 2:
You are a designer, and already know 3D modeling concepts, basic colour and texturing, now you want to achieve Photo-realism.

Choose:
Blend of Colour Lighting and Animation: (B1)


Workshop on demand (WOD) - most popular

Half day sessions (CAD $400)
Individual workshops designed to help you solve industry related problems.

Design Applications

3D Modeling for architecture (D1)
3 half day sessions (CAD $750)
Methods and techniques to create 3D architectural models.
Integrating 2D drawings from other applications such as AutoCAD
Extracting two dimensional information from the 3D model.
Software taught: formZ

3D Modeling for Industrial Design, furniture, Exhibit and Displays: (D2)
3 half day sessions (CAD $750)
Methods and techniques to create 3D models.
Integrating 2D drawings from other applications such as AutoCAD
Extracting two dimensional information from the 3D model.
Software taught: formZ

Lighting and Animation 1 (L&A1)
2 half day sessions (CAD $500)
How textures and Light behave in computer graphics
Texture map design and preparation
Texture layering, mixing procedural with maps, map design and preparation.
Soffware taught: Adobe Photoshop + formZ RenderZone Plus

Lighting and Animation 2 (L&A2)
2 half day sessions (CAD $500)
Texture preparation, multi-pass rendering techniques.
Software Taught: formZ. Post-processing with Photoshop

Blend of Colour Lighting and Animation (B1)
3 half day sessions (CAD $750)
A blend of some of the techniques covered in Colour and Lighting 1 and 2
(CL1 + CL2) workshops.
Walkthrough and Turntable concepts.