Author: swann-j3End of Year Show Fundraising As a class we decided to do a pub quiz and a craft fair as our fundraisers this year. I took on the role for creating posters to promote our fundraising activities, specifically the craft fair one. We had already came up with a theme for our end ofContinue reading Creative Futures
Over the summer myself, EJ, Rhys and Dan decided that we wanted work as a group for our final year project. Over the summer we each came up with our own ideas for a potential film and put together presentations to give an overview of the story and the style we’d like to use, asContinue reading Keeping Up with the Apparitions Development Blog
2D Work Madison turnaround Madison concepts Hunters and logo concepts Madison’s teddy basic turnaround Room layout plan Storyboards 3D Work NOTE: ALL MODELS ARE MINE, TEXTURES ARE BY DANIEL CupboardContinue reading Keeping Up with the Apparitions Portfolio
Overall I have very mixed feelings about this project. I really liked our group’s idea of an open world game and I enjoyed planning out the style for the game. However, there were many issues throughout the project. Our biggest issue is that the project was far too ambitious for the time that we wereContinue reading Vertical Slice – Reflection
Concept Art Models / Textures (Model for this NPC was done by me, the textures were done by Benny) (Textures weren’t finished) (Textures weren’t finished) (Ended up scrapped from main game) Animations NPCContinue reading Vertical Slice – Portfolio
Father Model This week I continued working on the father model. The next part I worked on was his walking stick. I wasn’t too sure how to model the walking stick as it had a spiral shape, so I found the following tutorial: All I had to do was draw out theContinue reading Vertical Slice Project – Week 12
Fixing Models and Rigs This week the game design students tried importing all of the character models that I had made so far, however there were some issues. The main issue was that all of the character models were far too small. I had recently exported the character models again as I had realisedContinue reading Vertical Slice Project – Week 11
Storyboard Movement Blocking First Line of Dialogue / Expressions Second Line of Dialogue / Expressions Third Line of Dialogue / Expressions Animated Hair & Clothing Final Version
Research While doing research on lip-sync animation, I found some tutorials by Sir Wade Neistadt where he goes over some of the basics when it comes to lip-sync animations. He talks about his typical work flow, which involves in him blocking out his acting animations first and doing the lip-sync as the final stage inContinue reading Personal Development – Reflection
Finalising the Animation Now that I had finished animating each line from my audio, I had most of the animation completed at this point: This week I wanted to focus on getting the animation as polished looking as possible by: Animating the character’s clothing/hair Making adjustments to certain mouth shapes to lookContinue reading Personal Development – Week 5
