Semester 2 – Animated Short – “Hubris”

✨ 30 Second Animated Short – Hubris ✨   After getting ourselves into a group the first thing we did was jump right into a miro board so we could start brainstorming ideas for our 30 second animation! Below you can see our journey of tring to whittle down what it was we wanted toContinue reading Semester 2 – Animated Short – “Hubris”

Semester 2 – Animation Studies Assignment

✨ Research ✨   In preperation for my Monty rig animations, I went back and refamiliarised myself with the 12 principals of animation, as well as looking over some books such as “Animators Survival Kit”. The last time I looked at these was back during our last semester, so I found it really beneficial toContinue reading Semester 2 – Animation Studies Assignment

Semester 2 – Sword and Shield Modelling Assignment

✨ Design stages ✨   The first thing on my agenda for this assignment was deciding what exactly I wanted to make. After looking over the assignment brief, I was really torn between making a sci-fi door, a wizard staff, or a sword and shield. I knew that a lot of my friends were makingContinue reading Semester 2 – Sword and Shield Modelling Assignment

Semester 2 – Introduction to Maya

✨ An Informal Intro to Maya ✨ Over Christmas and New Year’s break, I admittedly found coming back to work in 3D more than a little daunting, I downloaded Maya and tried to get to grips with the program myself and was completely overwhelmed by it all. Fortunately enough though, I had a friend whoContinue reading Semester 2 – Introduction to Maya

Semester 1 Week 13 – Final Animation!

✨ Animation! ✨   Drum roll!!! Here’s my animation so far! Unfortunately I didn’t get it finished, I’m honestly pretty disappointed, but I’m proud of how far I got! I’ve never animated something on this scale before, and I’ve never used backgrounds and colours and this much moving parts so I’m really impressed with myself!Continue reading Semester 1 Week 13 – Final Animation!

Semester 1 Week 12 – Animation progress!

✨ Animation Progress ✨   Woo! I finally got lining my animation! Unfortunately, I ran into a BUNCH of complications and I had to start over a looooot. At first I was trying to use the paint brush tool on adobe animate to give my lines a really cool pencil bumpy texture, and it wasContinue reading Semester 1 Week 12 – Animation progress!

Semester 1 Week 10 – Backgrounds ~ Rough Animation

✨ Backgrounds ✨   This week I focused hard on getting my backgrounds done and out of the way, I don’t generally enjoy doing backgrounds so I spent an awful long time on these trying to get them just right! I was working from the inspiration board me and Joseph made in prior weeks forContinue reading Semester 1 Week 10 – Backgrounds ~ Rough Animation