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Digital Literacy Week 5 – Substance painter practice and some modeling progress on Old well

This week in Digital Literacy we had another go at using substance painter. This time Henry sent us a model of a watering can which we then took to substance painter and added our materials and textures to. I enjoy using substance painter because it really brings the model to life, and looks very realisticContinue reading Digital Literacy Week 5 – Substance painter practice and some modeling progress on Old well

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Animated Narratives Week 4 – Animated short character concept work

On our fourth week, my group made a start on some concepts for our animated short film. We had discussed and roughly agreed on a story so now we each focused on designing characters that would feature in the film, and showcase these characters to each other. I made some concepts for the shark designContinue reading Animated Narratives Week 4 – Animated short character concept work

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Digital Literacy Week 4 – Tie Interceptor model and introduction to Substance painter

In week 4 of Digital Literacy I spent some more time on Maya, to try and get more practice on UV unwrapping. Alec, our lecturer posted up a quick demo on placing textures on a dice using the UV editor. I found this demo informative and easy enough to understand. After this I got aContinue reading Digital Literacy Week 4 – Tie Interceptor model and introduction to Substance painter

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Digital Literacy Week 3 – Coke can, dice and hammer textures

This week we learned to use the UV edit to unwrap and texture our 3D assets. This is an aspect I have found most challenging so far since I started using Maya. In class we went through a few tutorials with Mike then had a go at attempting it ourselves. We had created a cubeContinue reading Digital Literacy Week 3 – Coke can, dice and hammer textures

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Digital Literacy Week 2 – Milkshake tutorial and Old well concepts/references/Inspiration

In week 2 of digital literacy, we got a more in depth look at Maya during class. Mike had created a milkshake cup on Maya in class. I didn’t want to work along with him on Maya as it could distract me from what Mike was doing so I watched along first before doing anyContinue reading Digital Literacy Week 2 – Milkshake tutorial and Old well concepts/references/Inspiration

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Animated Narratives Week 3 – Assignment 2 Brief – Animated short

In week 3 of Animated Narratives, as a class we all viewed each group’s presentations and listened to feedback. The feedback was very helpful as it helps us learn and develop in our speaking and gathering of research and information. There was also feedback on layout of slides which I found helpful. All feedback IContinue reading Animated Narratives Week 3 – Assignment 2 Brief – Animated short

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Animated Narratives Week 2 – Finished presentation

During week two of animated narratives, I focused on researching and writing the script for my part of the presentation. I researched in class about how to discover the intent of a film, and the main difference between meaning and purpose. I communicated with my group about what direction our presentation will go so weContinue reading Animated Narratives Week 2 – Finished presentation

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Animated narratives Week 1 – Assignment 1 – Narrative studies presentation

In the first week of animated narratives, we went over some power points and read the module into to understand fully what the module represents and what it means. We were then all placed into groups to work on analysing separate short animations. This would be for our first assignment of the module for thisContinue reading Animated narratives Week 1 – Assignment 1 – Narrative studies presentation

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Digital Literacy, 3D Cactus tutorial

Before our first class of Semester two, Alec had posted a series of tutorial videos to watch and follow along. The subject of the videos was a cute cactus character. The videos were very helpful and informal. We started from scratch, sculpting the plant pot from a basic cone shape, then creating the cactus startingContinue reading Digital Literacy, 3D Cactus tutorial