Animation Blog
Author: bowman-c3During class we had the opportunity to start practicing UV mapping in Maya when we were given a Maya project folder of UV mapping challenges. Once we extracted the contents of the folder, we watched the tutorial videos Alec uploaded and started working on the first two challenges. The first challenge was UV mapping someContinue reading Week 3: UV Mapping
The classes for this week consisted of four different presentations to help us to better understand how to analyse the short films we were given for our assignment. The first presentation was by Henry, and included case studies to better our understanding of animation analysis such as the hero’s journey in Sleeping Beauty with theContinue reading Week 2: Animation Analysis
This week we were given a presentation on the general principles of 3D modelling where we learned the modelling pipeline which is to conceptualise assets, break down objects, model in phases, UV map, texture and render/game import. Through this I learned how important using references is for modelling and that you should base your modelsContinue reading Week 2: Modelling
This week was our first week of our new “Animated Narratives” module and we went through the module handbook where we found the assignments we have to do this semester. We got given our first assignment which was to do a group presentation due 10th February on one of the short films given and weContinue reading Week 1: Module Intro
This week was the first week of our new “3D Digital Literacy” module and we went through the module handbook so we know what to expect from this semester, as well as getting introduced to Henry Melki who is a new lecturer. He also introduced us to our first assignment which is to model oneContinue reading Week 1: Module Intro
Week 0: Mini Project Presentation, Drawing Exercises and Finding Character Shapes And Forms Week 1: Character Designs, One/Two Point Perspectives and Thumbnails Week 2: Thumbnails Week 3: Character Designs, Thumbnail Recreations, Landscape Colouring and Colour Scripts Week 4: Character Designs, Concept Art andContinue reading Semester 1 Portfolio
During the first blackboard call we continued working on our presentations. Since Timmy had personal issues going on he wasn’t able to do his part of the presentation or send his animation so I edited mine and Rory’s parts together to show Alec in the second blackboard call. We couldn’t show the looping linked animationContinue reading Week 12: Presentations & Assignment Submission Info
This week was the individual 30 minute feedback session we would get for our animations so far. Alec was the one giving the feedback to me and said my animation is going well so far and the only adjustments he said to have for the animation was to have Echo peek out for longer soContinue reading Week 11: One to One Feedback Tutorials & Animating 2D Effects
During the first blackboard call we showed our lecturers and Patricia who joined us again our blogs containing what we were working on for the week. I showed mine to Aodhan, Sarah and Patricia since Alec wasn’t here, and I explained to them about fixing the desk and using lines for the elephant trunk toContinue reading Week 10: Reflective Blog & Peer Review & Animating Animals
During the first blackboard call everyone was showing the animatics for their groups, with most being in the form of a combined edit. However my group experienced technical difficulties as Timmy’s animatic wouldn’t export so we all had to show ours individually. Alec, Sarah and Patricia who joined us again this week were the audienceContinue reading Week 9: Animatics & Secondary Actions