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This is my reflection blog post for our second assignment in our Animation Strategies module. To be frank, this assignment turned out to be a great challenge for me due to factors and setbacks I had to face that were outside of my control. I had previously stated in a blog post for our otherContinue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 2- Reflection
The third animation we were tasked with doing for our second assignment was a lip sync using roughly 8 to 10 seconds of dialogue of our choosing. We were told before that out of the three animations we were assigned, lip syncs take the longest to to make, so going in I knew I wouldContinue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 2- Lip Sync
The second animation we were tasked with creating for this assignment was a running jump that we were able to style however we wanted, whether it be over an object/space or in a certain style. Due to my work in the previous assignment, I had decided that the running jump would be the animation IContinue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 2- Running Jump
In this assignment, the first animation we started work on was weightlifting animations. When deciding on which program to use for the assignment, I decided to do this one in 3D as I felt like it was a better medium for the idea I had. The main draw of the assignment was to show thatContinue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 2- Weight Lift
Upon reflecting on the work I have done for our first assignment in our Animation Strategies module, I feel very proud of the work I was able to put in and with the amount of ambition I was able to display with my animation cycles. Admittedly, I feel that the amount of work required forContinue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 1 Reflection- Final thoughts
During weeks 4-6 leading up to our submission, I mainly put my focus into working on my personality walk cycle, along with developing my basic run cycle and my personality run cycle for our assignment. I had taken the basic principles we had learned through working on the walk cycles and had learned to speedContinue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 1 Reflection- Run Cycles
During the first three weeks of our Animation Strategies module, we focused on learning and practicing the techniques used for walk cycles in animation, both in 2D and 3D. As seen in my previous post for this module, I had already done a good amount of practice work into practicing walk cycles over the summer,Continue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 1 Reflection- Walk Cycles
The Gelatinous Monster ™ “The square archway looking thing” A week before our first semester of our second year in Animation, we were given an induction talk and activity for the first, second and final years to participate in before going into the new year as a way of getting to know each other acrossContinue reading Induction activity- Pictures and Animation Practices
Over the summer of 2023, between my first and second years of the Animation Course, I set myself the goal of improving my creative skills over the break by planning out different projects and ideas to work on before proceeding into year 2. These included personal projects for myself such as character designs and conceptContinue reading Summer 2023- Independent Studies