Once I had finished my retopology, I adjusted my model manually making sure all vertices were joined and adjusting the form of some things. Once I was happy with how my model looked, I followed along with an example video to add seams and unwrap my model. I tried to organise my map as neatlyContinue reading Week 10 – Adding Detail And Baking Normal Maps
Animatic: This is my new Animatic based on my updated storyboard. I don’t like this animatic as it is very rough but it is only to visualise how the animation will flow. My Animatic Group Animatic: We added all of the group animatics together to get an overview animatic before we begin animating. Group AnimaticContinue reading Design A World – Week 9
Secondary actions: I used Krita to play about with some frames to create an animatic. This was a very simple way of creating this animatic and will be very useful in the future.
Class Workshop: We were supplied with a blender file of a sculpted elephant head to practise retopology. This was my outcome: Sculpting my character: I sculpted the body using my reference photos of my own drawing to help create the same form as best as I could. Continue reading Week 9 – Retopology and sculpting
Storyboards: I created a rough storyboard based on my scene. I then created a coloured animatic to see how it flows visually: Animatic Group storyboard: After Review our group decided it would be best to change the ending as it wasn’t flowing how we would like it to flow. The new ending wouldContinue reading Design A World – Week 8
Flour-sack animation: Today i was asked to animate a flour sack jumping. I achieved this by drawing out the 3 main actions which were the flour sack on the ground, in the air (middle) and landing. after these 3 poses were drawn, I was able to add in the frames in tween to create aContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating With Forms
I added Reference photos of my characters into blender in front and side view to help get proportions / form correct. i then began blocking out using a cylinder and changing shape and extending where i needed to.
Genndy Tartakovsky and Hotel Transylvania: Genndy Tartakovsky is a Russian-American animator, director, producer, screenwriter, voice actor, storyboard artist, comic book writer and artist. He has created various animated television series on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. He directed The first three Hotel Transylvania movies and also worked on well known animations such as power puff girls.Continue reading Week 7 – Research and character designs
Story: Our Group had changed again leaving the final members to further discuss our story and changed it as we did not like how it was flowing. We decided to stick with 3 main characters to not over complicate things considering it was a short animation and there wasn’t enough time to tell a fullContinue reading Design A World – Week 6 / 7
Animation Basics: In this exercise I was practising the timing of different object speeds. In this exercise I also practised some of the principles of animation such as squash and stretch, staging, Arcs, Timing and Exaggeration. I then Animated 3 different types of balls dropping as you can see below. Bowling Ball: Bouncy ball: Continue reading Week 6-7 – Animation Introduction
