This assignment was tough, especially toward the end. But the entire way through I knew I was enjoying it a lot, and I do enjoy the pipeline of creating an animation. Working with a group for 3D animation compared to the 2D is much more difficult, I felt there was a bigger chance to hold […]

A collection of my final designs, character model, assets, environmental lighting, and animation screenshots of my first render plus the final animation.   My designs and character model-     My assets and textures Graves 1-3 modelled by me, last one modelled by jasmin. I UV’d and textured them all.   Lighting –   Screenshots […]

This week we were shown how to use Maya lights and Arnold lights. We watched Mikes tutorial both in class and pre-recorded. I tried to create a quick lighting test using three point lighting which our characters will need to have set up. I had some trouble t=with maya crashes while lighting for some reason […]

During the weeks we got to try some 3D animation with Alec helping us out and uploading tutorials on blackboard. Using Maya from a modelling tool to then use it as an animation tool is such a strange that it took me a good while to try and get used to it. I really enjoy […]

Before we decided on a style and theme, as a group we all did some concept designs for the potential story ideas we had.   Unused story concepts: Monster plant shop   Rootin tootin venom shootin     In my groups Graveyard animation, we have in total 5 characters. Three larger characters, a small character […]

Were were assigned as Group 1 – My group was Jorja Notman, Amy Long, Jasmin Sheppard, Lydia Bingham and myself. As soon as we were put into our group we quickly went to work and brainstormed many ideas that fit the nature theme, we tried our best to keep in mind the length of the […]

This week we learned about the Hero’s Journey and how armatures apply to a story.   We were brought into groups and given some story die to randomly determine main points in a story we had to create. It was a fun exercise, although difficult at times to create unique and interesting story with a […]