O’Donnell Tiernan’s Animation Blog
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This is my reflective blog post for Assignment 1, as part of our Animated Narratives module for our second semester, along with a reflection of my experience in our first year in the Animation Course. Upon reflection, I found this assignment and module to be incredibly challenging, yet also a rewarding experience over the course ofContinue reading DES 133- Assignment 1 & Animation Course Year 1 Reflective Blog Post
During Week 11 of our Animated Narratives module, I have finished up a good majority of my work for our 3D Animation assignment and as a result I had extra time to spare. Hence, I decided to help move along our production and offered to handle one of the shots assigned to another to helpContinue reading Week 11- Extra Animated Shot for Assignment
During our lecture for Week 11 of our Animated Narratives module, I had used the class time to catch up on my animation for our assignment and had gotten all three shots fully finished, along with having my group members review my shots to which there were not many issues to correct. All of myContinue reading Week 10- Fully Rendered Animation Shots
During Week 10 of our Animated Narratives module, I made progress on our animation by working on the lighting for our 3D animation project. My goal was to use lighting that made sense with the environment, whilst avoiding hard shadows in individual shots. Firstly, to help emphasise the lighting in certain parts of the room,Continue reading Week 10- Dust Bunnies Environment Lighting
During Week 10 of our Animated Narratives module, I set myself the task of working on retexturing the environment for our animation in order to give it more depth. I decided on using UV mapping instead of using Substance painter in order to save our group time and to make giving certain objects easier textures. Continue reading Week 10- Dust Bunnies Environment Texturing Experiment
Over the Easter Break for our Animated Narratives Module, we were given a week schedule on what to focus on over the last few weeks leading up to the submission date for our project. Over the break we were expected to work on our actual animation for the project and aim to have it finishedContinue reading Easter Break Animation Progress Report
During Week 9 of our Animated Narratives module, we continued on with working on our character rigs, with the goal of getting them finished to start our animation work over our Easter Break. Over the past three weeks for this module, we covered over more in depth rigging methods, including empties, vertex groups, weight paintingContinue reading Week 9- Completed Dust Bunny Rig and Showcase Video
During Week 8 of our Animated Narratives Module, our group had continued to work on our models for our animation. We had not been able to complete everything for our agreed deadline so we pushed it back one week. I took the time as well to speed up production by creating the model for theContinue reading Week 8- Dust Bunnies Room Environment Model
In Week 8 during our Lecture for our Animated Narratives module, we continued work on more detailed rigging techniques, this time using a robot model to parent a model to a rig using empty shapes and vertex groups to get better animation quality. I found this lesson to be engaging and I was able toContinue reading Week 8- Robot Armature Rigging Practice
During Week 7 of our Animated Narratives module, I had taken the time to go over our groups previsualisation work and edit together the shots that I felt worked best for our final product that we would follow when working on the animation to our project. I took shots from Odhran, Abbi and my previsContinue reading Week 7- Final Previs Render