Today we did lip sync tests in Toon Boom and Blender. Alec gave us a Rain Rig with premade Mouth poses to try out so I grabbed a sound byte of Mario from Mario Party 7 saying “Hey, stinky” to sync up to the rig’s mouth movements. We also looked at certain scenes, such asContinue reading Week 10- Lip Sync tests

Today we had a lecture from Becca, who graduated from Ulster University 4 years ago. She worked on production work, graphic design and 2D effects, and worked in Feed Me Light in London. She did VFX for four to five months, where she networked and made friends, and worked in the Blue Zoo Animations 2DContinue reading Week 9- Graduate and Unreal Engine Continued

Today we did another excercise in Blender, adding in betweens to an animation that Alec did. Istayed in a lot longer than usual today, as NI Screen came in at 4 to show us a pipeline masterclass that will start 22nd January. This is good, as this will help me learn about the pipeline toContinue reading Week 9- NI Screen

We delved more into Substance Painter and making an environment in this class. Remembering how my Laptop chugged when Unreal Engine 5, I decided to log onto Substance Painter through one of the University computers, making sure to copy over the most current model onto a hard drive. I had used Substance Painter before, whenContinue reading Week 9- Unreal Engine and Substance Painter

We did another exercise in Toon Boom Harmony, this time a long jump. Following a live action reference for a long jump, we each made an animation of a character performing a long jump. But we were told that we had to make personalised versions of both the weight lifting and the long jump animations,Continue reading Week 8- Long Jump

Today we played around with Unreal Engine 5, getting into its UI and functions.  We fiddled around with a pair of projects in Unreal, creating nodes to render a plane with many different textures and normal maps, and sculpting a forest scene. When I used Unreal, I found that my laptop chugged when it wasContinue reading Week 8- Unreal Engine

In our class with Aodhan we broke down a live action ref of a man weight lifting and animated our own version of it. When looking at the ref, we broke it down into Staging, anticipation, weight and timing. We learned that wen doing an action, people build themselves up, prepare themselves to do theContinue reading Week 7- Weight lifting test

In our class with Henry we looked at ways to sculpt hair, and there are similarities to blocking out characters with blocking out hair. We can use BDM brushes or customised brushes and do not need to sculpt hair. There are also techniques we can use when we need to and where we can avoidContinue reading Week 7- Hair sculpting