I can’t lie and say that I wasn’t nervous when we were first given this assignment. I previously had a lot of trouble trying to navigate modelling, unwrapping and texturing the helmet on my own, so even the thought of having to do that again and more was a little scary. However as I went…
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Now for the hard part.. actually modelling the character. I started off with a rough (and I mean rough) concept model. This was pretty quick to do as she’s made of pretty basic shapes (and has half her body covered by a skirt). The concept model was really beneficial as I now had an idea…
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When thinking of a possible character to design, I immediately went to one of my favourite designs in the show – Life. Though it’s very simple, I think it’s a very effective and visually pleasing design for what’s supposed to be the goddess of Life. I knew I wanted to include elements of her design…
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For our 2nd assignment in 3D Digital Literacy our task was to research and study the art style of a chosen cartoon, design a character that would fit the world and then model, texture, rig and pose it to upload onto Sketchfab. All on our own, with no tutorials on Blackboard to follow. I chose…
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The most anticipated week by far, there wasn’t anything in this class that I hadn’t already seen mentioned in art books, online tutorials or behind the scenes documentaries. Still – it was really exciting getting to learn about it properly and getting to really apply my skills. As a nice warm-up for learning shape language…
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I was excited to work on colour theory this week – I adore seeing colour scripts in art books! We were lectured on different colour systems, terminology and the meaning of certain colours before using a template landscape to portray different emotions entirely through colour. With the first I went for a very muted palette…
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This was an interesting week as we studied the importance of tone and value in our composition as well as our character design. I was already familiar with the importance of contrasting colours in design work as I often check the greyscale of the colours I’m using in a piece to ensure everything is readable,…
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This week we covered the importance of good composition, cinematography and use of perspective in animation. I’ve always admired layout artists and have always wanted to improve my composition and landscape drawing skills, so this was a fun challenge to do. In class we had to draw multiple rough thumbnails of the world our group…
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Ultimately this module has been very fun so far and I’ve really enjoyed learning and working in 3D! It has a lot of challenges and has been very difficult, but I feel like I’m really getting the hang of things. I’ve had some experience with Blender and 3D modelling prior to starting this assignment, so…
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