Before I started blocking out my animation in ToonBoom, I took a few videos of myself weightlifting to reference, and I also looked online to find other videos that I thought had clear movement to reference. It took me a few tries to get a video I was happy with but it has a weirdContinue reading Weight lift
This assignment really tested me, more than anything last year and more than our Animation Strategies module. I feel like I’ve come out of this module with a far better understanding and appreciation for the 3D pipeline. I especially enjoyed learning Zbrush. I had my reservations about learning Zbrush because I thought I would reallyContinue reading Reflection
I was absolutely dreading Unreal Engine; I thought it would be the most difficult thing I’ve done so far because in class I found it really difficult to follow along with the tasks, but I gave it another go for the first time in a while, and it was not as difficult as I hadContinue reading Unreal engine
Retopology My retopology was a nightmare. I had brought my high-res model into blender and started retopologising I was chugging along in it because it was much more difficult than I originally imagined because of the spikes along his body. I had dynameshed it all together instead of keeping the spikes separate and retopologizing themContinue reading retopology, rigging & texturing
Coming away from my initial blocking, I decided to give it another go because I wasn’t pleased with it and felt like I could push it a bit more. At this point, there were 4 weeks and 5 days until the deadline, so I was hoping that reblocking and sculpting would not take too longContinue reading Blocking & Sculpting
I have a lot of mixed feelings about how I did over the course of this module a lot of them are conflicting. I can tell I have improved over the course of this module; even looking back at the walk cycle we did as the first animation in this module, I can see manyContinue reading Reflection
I really enjoyed doing the run and jump in 2D, which I found much easier than the walk cycle. It was very enjoyable to animate. I used a reference video going through it frame by frame to get my key poses; although I’m not sure I used the best video for reference, I think itContinue reading Run and Jump
I found the walk with personality really tough, especially trying to figure out what type of walk I wanted to do. Originally I bounced around a few different ideas: sad, nervous, confident, but in the end I landed on angry because I felt like I could get nice exaggerated poses out of it. IContinue reading Walk with Personality
