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Author: bowman-c3During class we downloaded the Ultimate Walker rig to practice a jumping animation, only this time we were taught how to use the grease pencil tool to create thumbnail sketches of the movement to help work out the timing and spacing before moving the 3D rig. Another method of doing this was to add aContinue reading Week 7: Animation Practice & Introduction To Rigging
During class we were introduced to our next assignment which is to sculpt a cute character using Blender. To help us get used to Blender, we followed along to an apple sculpting tutorial and watched some Blender fundamentals videos over the week. We were also told that it is crucial to stay away from anythingContinue reading Week 7: Organic Modelling Intro
During the one to one tutorial with Alec, we recapped on what we were talking about the day before with the one to one tutorial for the other module before moving onto discussing this module. For the group animation, I reminded him I was part of the snail assassin one and Alec suggested about meetingContinue reading Week 6: One To One Tutorial
From the start of this semester, I was worried about learning to operate the complicated Maya and to compensate for my lack of knowledge I watched several in depth tutorial videos. Once I began to model the weekly modelling assignments, I started thinking that I might actually pull off my treasure chest with dragon ideaContinue reading Assignment 1: Treasure Chest With Dragon + Reflection
I had my one to one tutorial with Alec where I showed him my smoothed chest in Sketchfab after he helped me out shortly after last week’s blog entry was published. My smoothed chest links are shown below: https://skfb.ly/6Z9OG https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/treasure-chest-smooth-d4e1ff1b0877419d96c142f69b311954 When looking at my model, Alec said the gems look good and I explained thatContinue reading Week 6: One To One Tutorial + Finishing Assignment
During the first class, we watched everyone’s presentations for the ideas they have come up with in their groups and were given feedback on them. On the whole my group was told that our idea was good, but that in the animatic when the assassin snail is going after the victim snail it should beContinue reading Week 5: Animation & 3D Previs
During class we downloaded the hard surface model object and learned how to upload it with the different settings in Sketchfab. Such settings include having ground shadows with baked AO, importing the textures from Substance Painter, screen space reflection to make the metal parts reflect the colour of other parts, adding vinette which makes theContinue reading Week 5: Sketchfab
During the first class we got shown a presentation on 3D animation in Maya including the timing and spacing and using rigs to animate rather than the mesh before we were tasked with making a bouncing ball animation using the exercise file we downloaded. My playblast is shown below: BallBouncePlayblast Once we completed the bouncingContinue reading Week 4: 3D Animation
During class we spent our time looking at Substance Painter to learn how to texture our models, and looked at some tutorials Alec put up for learning to use Substance Painter. Using what we learned from the tutorials, we were tasked with colouring the default model and showing the final result to Alec a whileContinue reading Week 4: Texturing
During the first class we watched everyone’s presentations for their short films while the lecturers would give feedback, and I enjoyed watching them as they were really well thought out. When it came to feedback for my group’s presentation, we were told that the pacing was very rapid since we were trying to fit soContinue reading Week 3: Assignment 2 and 3, Animation Pipeline and Maya Animation Introduction