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During Week 7 of our Animated Narratives module, I had decided to make a quick colour reference for our animation’s staging as our group had forgotten to create a palette earlier in the pre-production phase. My idea for the film’s palette is to use lighter toned colours that follow the primary colours of red, blueContinue reading Week 7- Dust Bunnies Staging Update + Background Colour Scheme Reference
During week 7 for our Animated Narratives module, our group re-evaluated on our current workflow and management of our project, which included assigning specific tasks for members to complete during the week to push production along, along with setting personal deadlines for us in two week increments for what we should have finished at certainContinue reading Week 7- Dust Bunny Test Rigging & Animation
For Week 6 of our Animated Narratives module, we were scheduled to give a Pre-Production Presentation to the lecturers, similar to the Pitch Presentation we had done a couple weeks prior. In this presentation we were instructed to include: Final Character Designs Environment Designs The Final Storyboard decided on by the group The Group Previsualisation Continue reading Week 6- Dust Bunnies Pre-Production Presentation Slides
During Week 6 for our Animated Narratives module, I continued to work on my version of our group’s previsualization for our 3D animation project. Below is the fully finished Previs video, edited together using Blender’s video editing feature. Once everyone in the group has finished their previsualisation, we shall go through and find the bestContinue reading Week 6- Completed Previsualisation
This is my 1000 word reflective blog post on Assignment 1 for our World of Animation Module. The assignment tasked us with working in groups of four to analyse a short film, which we would then do a small presentation for in front of the class. I was in Group 6 and was assigned theContinue reading DES 130- Assignment 1 Reflective Blog Post
During this week for our Animated Narratives module, we have started work on our Previsualisation for our group animated projects. The previs is basically taking the storyboards drawn up and blocking them out with simple animation to plan out the scale, staging and timing of the action. We were given two weeks to complete thisContinue reading Week 5- Previs Progress Report
During Week 4 of our Animated Narratives module, We have began work on our previsualization for our group work, and have been given several Blender files that are meant to teach us techniques used in previs and for animating scenes in 3D. Firstly, below is a practice exercise in moving a camera around a spaceContinue reading Week 4- Camera & Previs Exercises
During Week 3 of our Animated Narratives Module, my group had continued to discuss our character designs for our animation and we had gotten the idea of using 2D drawings of expressions to overlay onto our 3D models, similarly to the art inspirations mentioned in a previous blog post. Since I took the time toContinue reading Week 3- 2D Expression on 3D Model Test
During Week 3 of our Animated Narratives module, we had continued on work to develop our character designs for our 3D animated shorts. Over time, my group had been steadily working on our characters with 4 people modelling Dust Bunnies and one modelling a vacuum. This week, I wanted to lock in the design conventionsContinue reading Week 3- Dust bunny Character Design Turn Around and Blocking
During week 3’s group discussion after our pitch presentation in week 3, another group member and I had discussed the narrative flow of our 3D animated short and had come up with a final narrative that works with our time frame. As the final idea had shot ideas that weren’t in any of our previousContinue reading Week 3- Extra Storyboards