O’Donnell Tiernan’s Animation Blog
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Adding onto the previous prop models post, creating the final model for the carpet was an interesting challenge for me. Since we had not covered hair particles in our lectures yet, I decided on a more solid modelling approach to the carpet fibres to give our animation a more cartoonish impression. My resulting idea wasContinue reading Week 7- Final Carpet Modelling Solution
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
For our Animated Narratives module, one part of our project that we were recommended after our Pitch Presentation was to show existing media such as movies, shows or games that have given us inspiration for our animation idea. Here are a few examples I had in mind when creating the idea for our art style. Continue reading Week 3- 3D Animation Style Inspiration
This week for our Animated Narratives module, we were tasked with learning our to create three separate ball bouncing animations in Blender similar to out Animation Studio module when we did the same task in 2D. Using my previous work as a reference, I had created animations for three different types of balls, that beingContinue reading Week 1- 3D Ball Bounce Animation Homework
This week, we started our second semester in our Animation course with our Animated Narratives module. This module so far seems to blend both learning the narrative storytelling devices with the 3D modelling skills we had learned in the previous semester to create full 3D animations. Below is an animation test I had done inContinue reading Week 1- Animated Narratives 3D Animation Practice
During Week 11 of our 3D Digital Lit. Module, I have finally fully sculpted my character model for Assignment 2. This was the week that sculpting had finally clicked for me and so I was able to sculpt the details on my model to be accurate to the reference sheet. One issue I did runContinue reading Week 11- Finished Character Sculpt
During week 8 for our 3D Digital Lit. Module, I was unable to attend the lecture that week due to personal reasons. However, I decided to do my own practice for character blocking and sculpting as seen below. I had found a design for a small animal-like creature online and had decided to try blockingContinue reading Week 8- 3D Character Blocking and Sculpting Practices
We have now started work on our second assignment in our 3D Digital Literacy module, our task is to study the art style from famous animation director Genndy Tartakovsky and create a character design that fits into the “Hotel Transylvania” film, in both art style and in character design which we shall then create aContinue reading Week 7- Genndy Tartakovsky & Character development
This is a post to document the indepedent drawing practices i have done over the past couple of weeks. These were all done in a sketchbook and I had used pages in a cartoon animation book as reference as part of my independent study. These included drawing different poses, characters and body types. I foundContinue reading Drawing Practice and Research Sketches