Author: Sarah ClarkeThis week Mike was teaching us bout how to rig with armatures. I was given access to a file I could download with a robot character which I had to rig. This rigging was different as it was for a more mechanical figure instead of natural movements. above was Mike’s example and he wanted usContinue reading Rigging with Armatures -Week 8
This week in class Mike introduced us to rigging and how the fundamentals work. Mike wanted to hold a little competition of how fast people can solve rigging problems which was scary but definitely made me focus more in class because I’m very competitive. I found it very confusing and did not get it atContinue reading Introduction to rigging- Week 7
The film I studied with my group was the ‘Attack of the Potato Clock’ (1) by JI Young and Victora Lopez. While studying this film I focused on the Mise-en-Scene which includes basically everything happening in front of the camera including set design, characters, actors, and lighting. (2) I really enjoyed how the use ofContinue reading Reflective Blog – Attack of the Potato Clock
This week for homework I had to work on the animatic for my group animation. I knew it needed to be 30 seconds and follow the storyboard we had agreed on. we decided on this final storyboard which was a mix of all of our work as we each had excellent parts but together weContinue reading Previs Groupwork -Week 4
Week 3 0001-0050 This week I worked on the introduction to 3D previs and was given another ball to animate but this time it had a tail. Initially, I made the whole thing without the rig and then realized I completely forgot to use it and had to restart. It was an excellent reminder toContinue reading 3D Previs – Week 3 & 4
This week we began to learn how rigs work and were set different tasks on what objects to rig. animation-task I started off with three cubes, making them go at different speeds. this task reminded me a lot of the work we did in 2d animation and I loved how much faster I could getContinue reading Rigging -Week 2
I moved to blender and began my character design for the duck. I focused on these to ducks as reference, I liked the shape of the first duck and the idea of two wheels for the second it took a while to figure out the shape and I finally remembered to use proportional editing whenContinue reading 3D Character Design- Week 3
The theme of our 30 second animation was ‘escape’ so I got a marker for the whiteboard and began brainstorming. We had several good ideas but focused on two main ideas. When a new toy is placed next to a broken shredded one, we follow the bunny as it tries to escape the same fateContinue reading ‘Escape’ Storyboards, room layout and research – Week 2
In class this week I learned how to animate a ball using a rig instead of the direct object. I used two sets of the rig instead of three to create a bouncing effect along with a roll, this was a difficult task because I felt like I hadn’t gotten the bounce right and itContinue reading Rig Animation Task-Week 2
This week for homework we were asked to animate a ball on blender in three different forms. To begin we had to practice by using cubes, animation task Then we were asked to move onto spheres and create three different types of balls bouncing, a basketball, a tennis ball, and a bowling ball. I tookContinue reading Bouncy Ball – Week 1
