Category: Animation Strategies

Creating the cycle For the body mechanics cycle, I was researching different movements such as moving an objects, such as wielding a sword, or a jumping motion. I found this reference on YouTube and wanted to create a slip and fall motion. This will capture part of a walk cycle of the character, then theContinue reading AS Walk Cycles – Body Mechanics

Creating the Run Cycle https://youtu.be/Q_BvNBjPOsw Reference used when creating the rig. I found this basic run cycle on YouTube which shows the weight shift, bounce and arm swing of a 3D character doing a generic run. To match the feminine rig, I will add more of a heel flick to the kick back of theContinue reading AS Walk Cycles – Run

Creating the Walk Cycle For the walk cycle I’m going to use the above reference to help me animate it. I believe out of all the references I have looked at so fair this will be easiest to follow, as it has both front and side views as well as the frame numbers. It’s aContinue reading AS Walk Cycles – Walk

‘Reference is simply a guide artists use to create a certain look and feel in their work. Without it, it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to animate or illustrate anything to have a sense of believability and appeal.’ https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/film-games/dos-donts-using-reference-animation 100 Walks Great variety video Filmed at a diagonal angle which might be tricky to referenceContinue reading AS Walk Cycles – References

The Brief – We have been tasked to create 3 walk cycles, a walk cycle, a run cycle and a body mechanics motion. This can be done in either 2D or 3D. Notes from Sarah’s lecture Analyse 101 Dalmatian walk cycle  Successful walk cycles involve understand of the mechanics of an action, acute observation ofContinue reading AS Walk Cycle – Intros

I really enjoyed making the assets for my room. I was able to be more creative than I was last year with Maya tasks and I was much quicker making assets. I am also more confident UV’ing and texturing, and have a better understanding of the purpose of good texturing. For my next project withContinue reading AS Unreal – Reflection

First Trail Recording https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cDXsviBIh8g This was my showreel entry for another assessment, which included my Haunted Mansion room built so far. At the time it did not include any of the assets for the individual ideas, but was a practice run at moving the camera. There are shots in this which are too fast andContinue reading AS UE Individual Idea (Recording and Sounds)

Issue with meshes When I imported my first object into unreal, all my assets separated into their separate parts, as in all the spheres would superset, each cube etc. After discussing the issue with my group, I was told this was an issue with my meshes being separate when exporting out of Maya, so afterContinue reading AS UE Intro to Unreal

UV’ing To create a smooth texture on the bath I had to separate the rings on the circular bowl. This allowed the uvs to unstretch. Creating the rust for the piping of the sink and bath. I’m going to use the same texture for both so there is equal amounts of rust on the metalContinue reading AS UE UV and Texuring

Making a blueprint; As a team we decided to do the interior of a mansion as we felt like this we could showcase assets better by making furniture and decor. After discussing various layouts of a mansion and ways we decided to do a walkthrough video style project, each of us taking a room eachContinue reading AS UE Blueprints, Bathroom and Blocking