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Author: bowman-c3Overall I enjoyed myself with this module and the 3D environment assignment. While this group project was a bit frustrating and stressful at times, for the most part I had fun modelling the different props and trying things I never modelled before, as well as finding out different methods of doing particular things including makingContinue reading Assignment 1 Portfolio + Reflection
This week was spent finishing the 3D environment assignment. After assigning the new textures to the relevant objects, I added in more gears to the scene along the arches where I placed the other gears based on the feedback from last week. Then I added a bookshelf to the environment and placed books in itContinue reading Week 13: Finishing 3D Environment Assignment
During the morning class and a bit of the afternoon class we showed our presentations and were given feedback on them. For my presentation, Henry and Michael said that for the open books I modelled I should add indents to the pages to show that it’s a lot of pages stacked on top of eachContinue reading Week 12: Presentations/Module Feedback/Submission Dates + Semester 2 Info
Since I had my one to one tutorial last week, this week was spent working on my cover email, CV and showreel based on Alec’s feedback from the tutorial. For my cover email, it is now a combination of the original cover email and the cover letter I had completed previously since Alec said IContinue reading Week 11: Finishing Assignment
During the morning and afternoon classes we were given time to work on our Unreal Engine scenes for our environments including adding in the assets we’ve modelled, texturing them and adding lighting. In the morning Nathan showed us the room and model solar system he was working on via Discord call and asked if weContinue reading Week 11: Lighting, Post Process Effects, Sequencer, Rendering
During my one to one tutorial, I showed Alec my cover email, CV, showreel and cover letter. I was wondering what the difference between a cover letter and cover email is since we only have to do a cover email for submission, and he said they’re pretty much the same thing but that it’s usuallyContinue reading Week 10: One To One Tutorial
During the morning class we were taught how to do a run cycle with Alec and he told us that it should take less frames to do compared to the standard 32 frame walk cycle we were taught. In Alec’s example run cycle file we had to fill in the missing up poses before adjustingContinue reading Week 10: Run Cycles
During my mock interview, the panel consisted of Alec and Sorcha with Alisa being the student on the panel after her own interview. They asked me what role I was interviewing for and I said 3D animator before they asked me some questions from the presentation slides such as “can you give an example ofContinue reading Week 9: Mock Interviews
During the morning class Sorcha showed us how to do kinetic typography in After Effects, which is animating text, which is also a term I came across when researching animation-related jobs for the start of my Professional Practice blog. During the afternoon class Alec gave us some animation exercises to understand things such as theContinue reading Week 9: Walk Cycles
During class we had a talk from Chris McHugh about studying abroad during placement year, but although this wasn’t relevant to me since I’m not planning on studying abroad it was still useful to know about the different schemes I could apply for such as Erasmus+, Study USA and ISEP (International Student Exchange Programme) toContinue reading Week 8: Preparing For Your Interviews