Overview For Week 7 we were given more time to spend designing our characters. I decided on going with my fat kitsune character as it was the one which jumped out the most to me and as I put more thought into how I wanted him to look I had the idea of making…Continue Reading Week 7 Designing Dez the fat grandpa kitsune
Overview On week 6 of the 3D digital literacy module our lecturer gave us the details for our project we would be working on over the semester. For this project I will be making a 3D model of a character design made for the hotel Transylvania world, as well as a prop to go…Continue Reading Week 6, Researching Genndy Tartakovsky (Project Hotel Transylvania)
Overview For week 5 of my animation studio side to the course, we were told to begin creating the characters we will be using for the animation jam the groups will be making. For my group, we will be making bird characters that will fit into a bird spy world we have developed. Each…Continue Reading Week 5, Creating Birds of a feather
REFLECTION On the first day of going to the ulster university animation course, I had never in my life touched any form of 3D modelling software and so, did not have any idea of what would be in store for me when I started the course. I was pretty nervous at first when it came…Continue Reading Reflective Post (Week 0 – Week 6)
Snowman assignment- Week #1: Frosty the Snowman Tie-Interceptor assignment- Week 2: May the force be with you Other Models from this week: Skateboard Zubat assignment- Week 3: Gotta catch ’em all Other Models from this week: …Continue Reading Portfolio
Overview For week 5 of the 3D digital literacy part of my course I was given the assignment to model a helmet of my own choosing and to use all that I know about texturing to texture it. For the workshop of this week, I had to texture a battle axe my lecturer…Continue Reading Week 5, Substance painter texturing
Overview For week 3 of my animation studio part to the course, I was instructed to colour an image our lecturer prepared for us, in a way that would convey emotion through the use of colour. The first colour I went with was a grey-blue colour scheme to convey a gloomy sort of…Continue Reading Week 4, Colouring!
Overview For week 2 of my animation studio part of the course I was told to create 4 tonal studies of areas for my group’s world for our animation. The group I joined during the second week was Group 9 who’s Idea for a world was one called Bird Spies. In week 2…Continue Reading Week 3, Toning the Value
Overview For week 2 of the 3D digital literacy class of my animation course, I was given a workshop to work on during class-time which meant I had to create a skateboard in blender. I struggled more on this task than on the first one; at first, I was having difficulty with creating the…Continue Reading Week 2, Skateboard + Tie interceptor
Overview So, for the first week of the animation 3D course, I was given the task to model a custom snowman in blender and also to give him a small animation of him bending from side to side. Following the step-by-step videos made this task pretty easy to execute, even though I had never used…Continue Reading Week 1, Animate Frosty