Year: 2022

Rigging my character has been a challenging process. To begin with I spent a good deal of time trying to rig him as though he were a snake as I pictured him moving as such, following closely a tutorial I had found online. Issues with this made themselves evident when I struggled to get him…Continue Reading Rigging my Character

When designing my character I had in mind how I might go about modelling it; a sweep mesh tapered at one end and extruded towards the top for the main body (below), Elongated spheres for the eyes and the moustache, and by way of the hat a plane with a bend deformer applied for the…Continue Reading Modelling my Character

My worm antagonist character went through a lot of subtle changes and variants, but now I think I’ve landed on one that hits where I’ve been aiming: I kept in mind aspects of design that can make a character feel aggressive, so I tried to use steep and sharp-ish angles where I could. I also…Continue Reading Final Character Design

To make the workload more even between the five of us and to generate more ideas, we decided to create individual storyboards, the best ideas out of which will be spliced together in our animatic. Bearing in mind the feedback from my storyboards from last semester, I kept the tone and value much simpler for…Continue Reading Storyboards

Using Monument Valley as a starting point, I created this environment concept. The two dots around the centre are our two main bugs who will be facing off. To try and work around the ‘no legs’ aspect we have to incorporate into our characters, I’d thought about covering them up as much as I could….Continue Reading Environment Concepts and Further Character Work

The idea my group has settled on is the Insect stand-off via nature documentary. I’m very excited for this idea and I see a lot of potential. I really enjoy the aesthetics and imagery of the American West and its associated genres so I’ll certainly have fun coming up with designs and ideas. I started…Continue Reading Chosen Idea and Character Concepts

For this group assignment I’m working with Kharis, Liam, Joe and Adam. In our first ideas session we went through a lot of different ideas and thoughts and possible points of reference (as seen in the whiteboard below, but we landed on the following three within the ‘Nature’ theme: A western stand-off with insects instead…Continue Reading ‘Nature’ Short initial thoughts