Character Creation Assignment 1 Portfolio
Concept Art Modelling and Sculpting Retopology Wireframe Extra Assets Textured models Environment
Character Creation Assignment 1
Initial Ideas and Theorycrafting For this assignment I would like to create an archer archetype character. I strongly gravitate towards a spider monkey due to its long limbs and agility. I believe those features will make for an exceptional archer character. I’m intentionally leaving this fairly vague as I plan to explore a few ideas […]
Portfolio for Animation Strategies Assignment 1 – Walk and Run cycles
Walk cycle Run cycle Personality Walk (confidence/purpose) Personality run (rage/anger)
Animation Strategies Assignment 1 – Walk and Run cycles
Hello and welcome to my post for Assignment 1 of Animation Strategies! Having done a bit of character animation (jumping flour sack + secondary actions) as well as experimenting with walk cycles as part of another assignment (more on that here https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/b00864894-bdes-animation/2022/12/16/my-500-word-reflection/ ) last year, I was keen to learn more about how to animate […]
World of Animation Assignment 2
Hello, in this post I will be covering my research and insight during the second assignment for this unit. My group consisted of: Luke, Dillon, and Jonathan. Irish animation was of particular interest to me as growing up in this country I had become increasingly fascinated with its rich history. As well as that, for […]
Year 1 Final Reflection
Hello and welcome to my final reflection. Here I will go through each of the classes and give additional insight into my experiences throughout this academic year. First, I would like to give a general reflection, before going into more detail. As a whole, I really enjoyed this year. I believe the classes were […]
Animated Narratives Portfolio
Hi! Here is everything I made during this assignment. Video Game Environment Scorpion model Snake model Bird model 3D Previs Final Animations
Production and post – Animated Narratives
Production At the start of production, Luke showed us an environment-generating plugin within Blender. This was ground-breaking as it meant we could quickly generate a realistic environment and alter its appearance to suit our needs. After landing one I was happy with, I quickly began filling it out with different models, taking inspiration from the […]
Concept and Pre-production – Animated Narratives
Concept My group for this assignment includes George, Luke, Dillon, and Jonathan. We discussed a range of ideas around the topic of the assignment (Escape) but there was one that stood out to us the most – turning escape into escapism. We set out to make a story about a guy who abuses escapism via […]
Group 1 – Darrel (mise en scene)
Hello! Having decided on a similar idea to many of the other groups, we decided to split up the analysis of Darrel into elements of film language. With Padraig focusing on Cinematography, Sean on Sound and Cate on Lighting, I decided to focus on Mise en scene. Initially, we all took some general notes, which […]