Museum Rebuild           When I received the museum file, there was a number of issues including textures not loading properly, camera fuzziness, black blotches on the walls and extremely shiny textures. I tried fixing the shininess of the walls and floors by adding a constant and replacing the roughness when attachingContinue reading Creative Industries – Post Processing and Final Video

Bartender and Cello Animations Creating animations for the secondary Marvelous dresses I made As the rig will be invisible due to the way we have to import from Marvelous to Maya to Unreal, and the way we want our animation just to show dresses, we do not have to focus on frame by frame perfectContinue reading Creative Industries – Bartender and Cello Animations

Marvelous Designer What it is and how I/we used it While using TikTok I came across the following videos from 3D artists using software called Marvelous Designer. When they create the clothes and simulate them on the avatar, the clothes move like real fabric in their walk cycles. Seeing our idea is to have dressesContinue reading Creative Industries – Marvelous Designer

Presentation and Team/Idea Development Presentations shown during class for either updates on our progress or help needed. Week 4 Presentations An outline of our initial idea including notes on a meeting with Charlotte. Some 1920s inspired research and sketches of our chosen dresses for our scenes. Week 5 Presentations Our initial modelling stages and firstContinue reading Creative Industries – Presentation and Team Updates

Maya Assets Once we decided on the scenes (Museum, Bar, Piano and Stage), we set to assets creation in Maya which will get imported to unreal. I will be creating the museum scene, but as there are fewer assets in the scene, mainly mannequins and stands, I’m creating smaller filler assets to be duplicated andContinue reading Creative Industries – 3D Assets

UV Work and Texturing The team create the assets, I uv’d them and textured for consistency. Fbx’s and textures used submitted. As the group had split the rooms up, we were concerned that there needed to be consistency on the textures between the rooms, as we all had individual tastes but needed the rooms toContinue reading Creative Industries – UV Work and Texturing

Artists These are various artists I found that either uses the software we will be using for our project, or produce work along similar themes to our idea.  Pauline Boiteux Using both Substance Designer and Marvelous Designer Produces highly detailed maps on the fabric. Might be beyond our reach for first using the software butContinue reading Creative Industries – Artist Research

Storyboard This is the storyboard I created for our idea using Procreate and Premiere Rush. It showcases a first-person view of someone walking down the museum corridor and eventually ended up in front of the dresses. Each of the dresses then come to life in their own scene and the rest of the video isContinue reading Creative Industries – Storyboard Planning

The Roaring 20s Films based on the 1920s Chicago Chicago is a 2002 film set in a 1924 Chicago Theatre. It stars Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. The film follows Roxie and Velma, two death row murderesses who compete for fame and the gaze of a lawyer. The Chicago musical has been runningContinue reading Creative Industries – Initial 1920s Research

The Northern Ireland Museums  Our client, National Museums NI (NMNI), look after 4 museums across the country – Ulster museum, Ulster Folk Museum, Ulster Transport Museum & Ulster American Folk Park. The Ulster Museum is located in botanic gardens and hosts specimens of the natural world. Textiles at the Ulster Museum The collection at the UlsterContinue reading Creative Industries – Research of Museum