My Reflection 30/04/24 This week, every group had to present a poster which talked about a certain topic, for example, American Animation and its history. So our group 13 picked to talk about Soviet Russian Animation along with its history as well as its […]
Week 11 – Animated Narratives – Post Production
This week, we learned about post-production and compositing for animation and films. Learning how to set up nodes, different types of nodes; blur and glare, how to prepare an image, to add distortion, Chromatic aberration and Vignette. Throughout this task, we also learned how to […]
Week 10 – Animated Narratives – Lighting
In this week’s lecture, I focused on lighting and ways to present it while using the blender software. The topics we focused on were lighting setups, different types of light orbs that have various ways to light up a room or object such as the […]
Week 9 – Animated Narratives – Presentation + Shape Keys and Drivers
This week in Animated Narratives we had to present a presentation about our modelling progress. My thoughts on my progress are pretty good but I should still focus on improving my typology and more over completing all of my work. After our presentation, we were […]
Week 9 – World of Animation – North American Animation + Canadian Animation (Including Pitch Presentation)
Week 9’s World of Animation subject was about North American Animation, the history of North American / Canadian Animation and how they are compared to each other. North American Animation’s contents are about early American animation (before its use of synchronised sound and after) and […]
Week 8 – Animated Narratives – Rigging with Armatures
Reflection On Week 8, we did exercises involving applying armatures and rigs on an object. For us to do this we first had to create armatures and place these within the object, naming them according to each bone structure and mirroring the bones to their […]
Week 8 – World of Animation – Abstract Animation
Reflection This week we focused on Modernist European Animation including its pioneers and abstract animation. We learned about Modernist art from the 1860s to the 1970s which gave us a good insight into their use of experimentation, backstory around rejected religions, traditional art forms, […]
Week 7 – Animated Narratives – Rigging; Local Space and Object Constraints
Self Reflection Week 7’s semester was about the basics of how to rig. Firstly introducing Local Space and Object Constraints on how to do these through Blender. This subject was very interesting as we learned about the meaning of rigging and its benefits, Local […]
Week 7 – World of Animation – Coursework 2 Brief PowerPoint
Self Reflection This week, we focused on our 2nd coursework which is to make a poster within your chosen subject matter for example Japanese Animation. For this, you must include detailed information involving the history and background of your chosen animation. The information needs […]
Week 6 – The World of Animation – Reflection Analysis
Refective Analysis The Creature of the Lake is a short CGI film presented by CGMeetup, a YouTube Platform. CGMeetup features a wide range of CGI content including short animated films, showreels, behind-the-scenes and VFX breakdowns. CGMeetup is a source network that provides jobs for […]