Animation Strategies Portfolio
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Professional Practice
Week 1 – Job Roles in Animation – Task 1 Idea Box (Chester) – Junior 3D Animator £20-25k per year. Skills Camera Set up. 1-2 years experience in the industry. Time Managmement/organisational. Team Work. Rigging (Maya and Houdini). Exp. using production tracing software. Work under pressure/ fast pace. communication. detail and quality. Miri GrowthContinue reading Professional Practice
Animation Strategies Blog (1989)
Adam, Joe, Liam, Josh, Jonathan and myself worked together to create an ancient temple. While brainstorming ideas, we agreed this would be a great opportunity to explore an ancient Celtic environment. Liam suggested a portal could be a focal point for the temple, which inspired ideas for the purpose of the temple and helped usContinue reading Animation Strategies Blog (1989)
3D Digital Literacy – Assignment 2 – Organic Modelling and Reflection
Organic Modelling – Cute Character For this assignment, I want to create a cute pigeon and pose it with a few objects that add context to it. I want to make a city pigeon because they are usually portrayed as gross and dirty and I think it could be fun to present one in aContinue reading 3D Digital Literacy – Assignment 2 – Organic Modelling and Reflection
15-30 second Animated short and Reflection – Assignment 2
For this assignment, Adam, Liam, Josh, Joe and I will be working as a team to create a nature-themed 30 second animated short. Brainstorming We began by brainstorming ideas for what our animation could be about. Writing on the wall allowed everyone to get their ideas written down, which meant we could go back toContinue reading 15-30 second Animated short and Reflection – Assignment 2
Reflection – 3D Digital Literacy – Assignment 1
Looking at the model I have created over the past number of weeks, I am happy to see a piece of work which reflects the progress I have made from having no experience with 3D modelling to making a sci-fi radio by watching online tutorials and learning in class. I enjoyed playing around with differentContinue reading Reflection – 3D Digital Literacy – Assignment 1
3D Digital Literacy
Assignment 1 – Introduction to 3D Modelling For this assignment, I have chosen to model, UV unwrap, texture and real-time render a Sci-Fi Radio. In this blog, I will look at the steps I have taken over the course of this semester to learn the skills needed to complete my model. Week 1 ThisContinue reading 3D Digital Literacy
Reflection
(549 Words) On starting this module, I appreciated the focus that classwork had on team work and group exercises. I thoroughly enjoyed bouncing ideas off each other during the brainstorming phase of thinking about world concepts – I felt very engaged in class when the group and I would talk about our ideas, change themContinue reading Reflection
Week 12
Finished Animation Overall, I think my animation succeeded at visualising one segment of a story in coherence with the other segments. It is 17 seconds long, is in a 16:9 format and plays at 24 fps as a playable mp4 video. My designs considered what the team and I had discussed in class –Continue reading Week 12
Week 11
After my one to one feedback on my animation so far, there are a few changes I have made to my animation based on the advice I was given. I have added more frames to the scene below to ensure the viewer has time to register that two new characters have entered. To draw moreContinue reading Week 11