Upon reflection over my first few weeks of the animation strategies module, I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed learning how to create walk and run cycles through the classes and these gave me the confidence and knowledge now that I needed to start bringing life to my many many characters I had sitting awaiting…Continue Reading Week 6, Reflection week
For weeks 4-5 we started learning how to take our characters from a walk cycle into the run cycles! This became quite fun to experiment with as we went through the basic break downs of the run cycles and how they were easier to learn than walk cycles were due to their much easier to…Continue Reading Week 4-5, Running with the cycles!
The beginning of every artists’ journey into character animation, The walk cycles. Oh how we loved learning about making walk cycles for the second and third weeks of our first semester. I in particular was actually looking forward to this sort of lecture as I have found myself wanting to make walk cycles for my…Continue Reading Week 2-3, walking the cycles
In the first week of Animation Strategies module we were introduced to the Rain and Snow rigs from blender and the rigs that have been set up on them both to transfer between using IK (Inverse Kinematic) and FK (Forward Kinematic) rigs. Safe to say that this class was a lot of fun as people…Continue Reading Week 1, Raining and Snowing?
On the first official week back in year 2 of the animation course we were sat down and told the brief for our assignment for character creation. Being honest about my reaction I knew that I would enjoy this assignment the most for the year. Instantly when we were left alone to start brainstorming our…Continue Reading Traditional annual Halloween character concept?
Ahhh, how good it is to be back in Uni again. For the induction week at the year’s start, the lecturers decided to give us a very fun and active activity to get us started. The activity set for us was in our groups, we would each get a set of paper plates (Which…Continue Reading Year 2!! Inductions
Models The Desk model The photo Frames Bean the Bunny Model Animations Scenes 1 + 2 Scenes 4 + 5 Final Piece + Animatic Run Bunny Run – full production (Version 1) Run Bunny Run – Animatic Run Bunny…Continue Reading Portfolio
On reflection over this module for our course I enjoyed creating my character and watching him come to life throughout the animation. I feel like I was able to successfully build him into blender so well that he looks unbelievably similar to how I drew him that I am actually proud of how he came…Continue Reading Reflection Blog
When our environment was ready and all of our models for our 4 bunnies and fox had been finished we then started to split our shots between the group as equally as we could. The shots I got given to do was shots 1 +2 as well as shots 4 + 5 as I needed…Continue Reading Production Blog: #3 (Animating)
When it came time to actually create the room/environment for our production we each went over what props we would need to add into the room as we had fully committed to the idea of our room being a home office as opposed to the earlier idea of making it a living room and…Continue Reading Production Blog: #2 (Room Construction + Prop Modelling)