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Overall I enjoyed myself with this module and the animations assignment and I had a lot of fun working on the animations to give them my own touch with exploring different emotions that are expressed in the walk cycles and run cycle, and for the run cycle I’m proud of the idea of experimenting withContinue reading Assignment 2 Portfolio + Reflection
This week was spent finishing the animations for Assignment 2 for this module. Since I had already finished the weight animation and adjusted most of the walk cycles which were in my showreel for the Professional Practice module, I just needed to adjust the sad walk and standard walk cycles and finish the fearful runContinue reading Week 14: Finishing Animations Assignment
Overall 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
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 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 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 the morning class Alec gave us an exercise where we had to animate the boxing characters from last week by changing the timing and adding in-betweens and also gave us the opportunity to learn how to switch between animating in IK and FK as for some of the arm movements it was better toContinue reading Week 8: Body Mechanics Continued
During the morning class we were split into two groups to attend two different workshops with one workshop being with Sorcha McGinley for 2D animation and the other workshop being with Alec for 3D animation. My group was with Sorcha in the morning before being with Alec in the afternoon. For Sorcha’s workshop she showedContinue reading Week 7: Body Mechanics Animation