Although Maya is tricky to get used to, I thoroughly enjoyed the modelling process. I still have much to learn, and no doubt there are many mistakes in my final model, but it was certainly…
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Concept and Base Idea Assignment 1 of the 3D Digital Literacy course was to fully model, UV unwrap and texture a prompt from the given list; I chose the ‘Old Well’. I had many different…
Week 1: Form and Shape On the first week of semester one, one of the tasks was to study form and how to simplify, modify, and develop them. Using some of the videos provided by…
Final Animatic During the past weeks my group has been working hard making our ideas come to life; creating our storyboards, merging them, and then creating our animatics. This was my first time trying Adobe…
The flour sack animation is a much more complex animation exercise, but necessary to explore animating form! This one has 29 frames, and is 12fps. At first, I had animated in Krita, but having faced…
The ‘Bouncing Ball’ animation exercise is a popular beginner experimental activity that employs a wide range of fundamental animation techniques, even in this simple frame by frame ball! This was my first time completing this…
This week’s topic was Character Design, I took to designing a background character/ possible side character that acts as an obstacle in the story for Group 5. Ephah is the guardian and protector of a…
Group 5 has a mixed theme of fantasy, Greek mythology, astrology and possibly war/conflict. I took down a list of some inspirations, mainly games like Bulder’s Gate 3, Rime, Shadow of the Colossus, The Witcher…
As part of this week’s homework on colour study we were given the linework and the exercise to redraw and colour the composition to convey 2 different atmospheres; I chose doom/fury/danger in this first one,…
Using the previous exercise to aid me in colour picking and recolouring I took 2 of my previous thumbnail studies and added a layer of colour. Although thumbnail 1 was originally a 2 tone black…