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Scared Run This would be my second time animating a run cycle so I felt I had a rather good foundation of knowledge to work off in terms of spacing out the movements, limbs and keyframes correctly. Previously my run cycles had all been fairly ordinary with the arms moving forward and back as theyContinue reading Assignment 2 – Run
Walk Cycle Before creating my walk cycle I searched on google images for walk cycles and came across a reference by Richard Williams that I thought laid out the positioning and timing for a walk cycle really clearly. Link to reference material: https://harrietcroucherap.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/walk-cycle-theory/ I set up the image plane in Maya so that IContinue reading Assignment 2 – Walk
Portfolio Here are my 3 different animation for my second assignment. These animations include a walk cycle, a run cycle and a body mechanics animation cycle. Walk Cycle: Scared Run Cycle: Tornado Kick Cycle:
Initial Planning: Back during our first week of second year on the Animation course we were separated into to different groups and tasked with creating a “Cinematic Short film using the environment as its storytelling medium”. There were several different options to choose from however I decided to go with the Blacksmith forge environment. OurContinue reading Assignment 1
ASSIGNMENT 1 PORTFOLIO Models: Full Anvil & chains Sword Final Unreal Scene: Cinematic:
CONCEPT DESIGNER/ARTIST A Concept Designer or Concept Artist is someone who is responsible for style and look of a project. With the help of a design brief that is usually given to them by the Producer, they will create sketches using this brief as a reference point. These sketches will include various designs such asContinue reading Further Research into Job Roles
Job roles in the Animation Industry Producer – The Producers role is to oversee and manage all of the departments within an animation project, as well as make sure the project is on schedule, budget and is at the quality expected. Concept Artist – The Concept Artist is the first person to decide on styleContinue reading Job Research
CONCEPT: For this assignment the task was to a cute character model that had to be under 40,000 polygons, there were very few limitations as to what we were able to create as we were given a lot of freedom for this task. When I was going to sketch a few ideas for this projectContinue reading Organic Modelling
Animations ARNOLD RENDER (PARTIAL RENDER) MAYA RENDERER 2.0 (FULL RENDER) GROUP ANIMATION:
Overall I’m happy with how the groups video turned out, I was frustrated that I didn’t leave enough time for the Arnold Renderer to fully complete as my part of the animation isn’t the same quality as my group members animations. I was pleased with how my dice models came out as well as someContinue reading Animated Narratives – Review