For this assignment, I had the choice between Character design or Environmental design. It took me a while to decide which area I would choose as I spent all of semester one on character designing. I wanted to broaden my skills but I really enjoy modeling and getting to create characters. For that reason, IContinue reading Research and Reflection
This week in class the lecturers discussed art styles and I had to go to my animation for the creative industries team to discuss different art analysis styles in different shows and movies. I got together with Sean and Luca and we discussed different options for media that we could choose from A list ofContinue reading Week 2
the first slide explained the style we wanted to achieve which was ‘Saturday morning cartoon’, where characters had smaller torsos, short stature but bulky legs and armour along with an oversized head covered by a helmet. including games that I found with similar styles including From space, Mouse, Jetpack Joyride, Guns of rage and DoomContinue reading Art Style Guide and Research
This week was the first week back after the break, I was introduced to the module and got a good breakdown and then I was put into my group. My group consists of 4 game design students and 3 animators. We split off into groups and began researching, trying to split it so there wasContinue reading Module Introduction- Week 1
Before beginning the animation I wanted to add more to the room but I had limited time. Because Ellie had made most of the props I wanted to do more and help her out by adding texture to some of her props. Because most of the props she had made were simple and quick theyContinue reading Props and room design
It took a lot of tries until I got the shape of my duck perfect. I talked to Alec about making the overall shape more natural and getting it to look like one single object. I was actually thrilled with the shape of my duck and how it looked so I decided it was timeContinue reading Duck Model Rigged and textured
This 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
