Lighting plays a massive role in the creation of an environment in Unreal Engine, it’s how I went from this: to this: To get the sun to shine light that I added fog but it still didn’t look 100% the way I wanted it to. I watched the class recordings about lighting but researched aContinue reading Lighting + post process Volumes – Week 11
This week in class a guest lecturer Becca came in to give a talk about networking. Having Becca come in to talk was really helpful, she explained the importance of networking and getting to know more people in the industry. This really set in stone how important it is to make connections, she talked aboutContinue reading Networking, UE and post-production – Week 10
This week in class I learnt a LOT about facial animation. Alec put up files to download which included a rain rig with preloaded assets of face animations, an audio clip from Parks and Recreation and slides that had reference mouth shapes. I watched the tutorial on how to add the audio file in, IContinue reading Facial Animation lip Sync and face – Week 10 & 11
This week in class it was focused more on jumping and getting the key poses right. Alec, in the morning, put up a file and asked to first block out the main key poses. I really like these exercises because they show a good example of a jump and what I would need to doContinue reading Body Mechanics- Week 9
This week in class I learned more about shading in unreal and bringing files from substance to unreal engine. There was a lot to learn about how exactly to export the files. I started by taking the exercise file of the watering can Hnery provided for class a few weeks ago and taking those materialsContinue reading Shading in Unreal – Week 9
This week in class I learned about how to get a character to jump, at first I assumed this would be simple, it doesn’t seem so bad but it was much harder than I expected. I decided to start. with the down pose as my anticipation for the jump. I feel like everything went wrong.Continue reading Jumping – Week 8
This week we jumped right back into work. The next assignment was explained and the criteria were set out. I definitely am a little panicked about this one. There is a lot about animation that I struggle with and fluidity is definitely one of them. Today in the morning class Alec walked us through blockingContinue reading Body Mechanics Animation Weight Lift – Week 7
This week was the intro to Unreal Engine and oh my gawd was it confusing. I couldn’t get Epic games downloaded on my laptop due to space but I was able to access them on the uni computers. It surprised me how big the files were and how long the computers took to load andContinue reading Intro to Unreal Engine – Week 8
