Author: Portfolio
Playthrough Assets Character Design Animations
Industry Facing materials
CV In preparation for creating my first professional CV, I scheduled a careers consultation appointment to assist me in organising my thoughts and deciding what should go on my CV and how to lay it out, as I felt I had nothing to put in my CV, but this appointment was extremely beneficial and madeContinue reading Industry Facing materials
Animations
Animating so far for a game has been a lot different from what I was expecting. I and other team members have run into some problems in terms of our game design peers importing our animations into Unreal. Our game design peers keep running into an issue when they import our animations; they appear massiveContinue reading Animations
Environments / Assets
At the start of our project, we tried our best to split up all the work as evenly as possible so I took an environment to design, which I decided to do the cave environment because I felt it was one I could do really well! When I was brainstorming ideas for what I wantedContinue reading Environments / Assets
Reflection
I found this module quite confusing but enjoyable. Researching our chosen academic article, ‘The Disappearance of Disney Animated Propaganda: A globalisation perspective’ The article covers why Disney started to make propaganda around WW2, why it was so effective, how globalisation has hindered the efficiency of Western animated propaganda, and why Disney never made animated propagandaContinue reading Reflection
Characters
My group and I had a chat during the first week about what kind of art style we wanted to go for for this project and we were taking into consideration the game’s plot when we decided to pick the art style; however, this was after the Monday class because I had an appointment.Continue reading Characters
Week 1 & 2
Week 1
Portfolio
Reflection
Overall, I’ve left this assignment feeling okay and I know where I need to improve. My biggest issue by far in both animations is form. My consistency in this area is what I feel is hindering me the most from becoming a better animator and it’s something I really need to improve on and IContinue reading Reflection
Lip-Sync
The lip sync was the part of this assignment I was looking forward to the most but it actually proved the most challenging and it hit me kind of hard because I thought I was actually quite good at lip syncs! They are what I enjoy animating the most; I even started a small AMVContinue reading Lip-Sync