I can’t believe we have come to the end of our time at university! The past three years have been a whirlwind of hard work, animating, travel and fun! In the time I have been at Ulster University I feel I have grown so much as a person. It is hard to believe I have Read More…
Animation for the Creative Industries, Assignment 2 – Animation Development Project
For our second assignment for this class, we were asked to animate 8-11 seconds in either 2D or 3D based on an audio we were to animate to. I chose to animate in 2D as I am far more comfortable animating in hand drawn 2D than I am with animating in 3D. I had originally Read More…
Animation for the Creative Industries, Assignment 1 – Vertical Slice Group project
For our first assignment for this class, we joined up with the games design course in order to collaborate on making our own game. We were split into groups of roughly 11 or 12 people that were roughly half animation half games design. Our group had 11 people with 6 games design students and 5 Read More…
Animation Strategies – Assignment 2, Animation
For our second assignment for this class, we were asked to make three animations; a walk cycle, a run cycle and a body mechanics animation. I made the decision early on to make my walk and run cycle more than just the average walk and run cycle by adding emotion to them. Research: Before starting Read More…
Professional Practice – Assignment 1
For this assignment, we were asked to create a cv, cover email and showreel to be able to send to potential employers. Below is my research into how to make sure my cv, cover email and showreel look good and presentable. CV: In order to create a good cv, there are a couple of key Read More…
Animation Strategies – Assignment 1, 3D Environment
For our first assignment for this class we were asked, as a group of 5, to create a 3D environment using one of the prompts from a list we were given. My group decided to combine the fairy house and the dungeon ideas, creating a fairy dungeon idea instead. As we discussed the idea, we Read More…
Summer work – Walk cycle
Over summer, we were given the task of making a walk cycle in either 2D, 3D or both if we wanted. I decided to do mine in 2D . Reference: The above image is what I used as reference when sketching out the key frames for my walk cycle although I flipped it horizontally as Read More…
3D Digital Literacy – Assignment 2, Reflection
Throughout going through this assignment, I’ve learnt a lot in terms of 3D modelling. I’ve never used Blender before but I mostly enjoyed learning the different mechanics to use it and how much it differs from Maya despite the few issues that I ran into. This assignment was interesting in that I actually had to Read More…
Animated Narratives – Assignment 2, Pre-production
For our second assignment for animated narratives, we put ourselves into groups of 4-5 people to create a 3D animation based on the theme of nature. Our short 3D animation consists of two different mushrooms (an inky cap and an amanita), a venus flytrap, a snapdragon and a dracula orchid. Below is the pre-production of Read More…
Animated Narratives – Assignment 2, Reflection
I enjoyed this module a lot and I feel like I learned a lot in terms of 3D as I didn’t have a lot of knowledge about 3D animation or using Maya to animate before we started this module. It was interesting working in a group in terms of animating in 3D and it was Read More…