For our final assignment of second year on the Animation course at Ulster University we have to create a CV, a cover-letter/email and a show-reel as well as have an optional still image portfolio. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was putting this assignment off until the very end after I discovered mid-semester…Continue Reading CVs, Cover letters and Show-reels… Oh No… (Word count: 1451)
Official Bunny Reference Sheet/Turnaround Game Blocks Concepts for the Bunny/Raccoon final blocks Final officially rendered blocks after going through the pipeline Bunny Animations …Continue Reading Portfolio
Bunny Production When it came time to start the production for my Bunny character I first started by sketching out expression poses I would be using as the key frames for my official final animations. I managed to get at least 3-4 poses ready quite quickly enough as I was able to come up…Continue Reading Production Work (Word count: 1500)
Bunny Pre-production At the beginning of our project we bounced about with idea’s for potential games we may be able to make and we settled on a stacker game which had a companion animal which would react to things you as the player does in the game. For the first iteration of our companion…Continue Reading Pre-production work (Word Count: 1500)
During research for our article I knew that I wanted to focus mainly on the strengths and weaknesses of the actual article itself. The article we had chosen to analyse was the carefully constructed yet curiously real: how major American animation studios generate empathy through a shared style of character design. Our group mainly collaborated…Continue Reading Researching our Article
For our art style of our game we started looking at all sorts of Saturday morning cartoon styles we could use to inspire our art. At first we broke down the areas we would be focusing on – I was tasked with handling the first companion character which we all agreed would be a bunny….Continue Reading Researching for the Art Style
Run Jump Cycle Weight Lift Animation (Official) Weight Lift Animation (Dead lift activity) Squidge – I Am The Man (Can I Get a Witness) : Lip Sync Example {Official} Can I get a Witness lip-sync Alt Version …Continue Reading Portfolio
Right off the batch I’ll go over doing the Run/Jump animation first as I knew from the first assignment we did, that I would be best looking at references for the type of character I was looking to animate (AKA a digitigrade/anthropomorphic character since that is what the majority of my characters I own are)….Continue Reading Jumping, Lifting and lip-syncing galore!
CONCEPT CREATION BLOCKING – RETOP UNREAL HIGH RES SCREENSHOT…Continue Reading Portfolio For Creature Creation
Upon getting the brief for this semester’s project I automatically knew that I wanted to make a character that felt like he fit on the more creepy or Halloween aesthetic as it is something that I really wanted to try out for my project. When I first started considering what I could do for my…Continue Reading Reflecting on making Redacted