S2 WEEK 4 This week in animated narratives we went over some more animating in maya. We started with a lecture where we went over setting Maya up for animation again, forward kinematics and inverse kinematics, blocking animation in maya with stepped preview mode, we’re looking at a few simple rigs, and looked more … [Read more…]
SEMESTER 2 WEEK 4 In 3D digital literacy this week Alec introduced us to Substance Painter after we had prevously downloaded it for this purpose. We started off by experimenting and messing around with the default character you have at your disposal in Substance Painter. We started by watching a short tutorial … [Read more…]
SEMESTER 2 WEEK 3 In 3D digital literacy this week we were introducted to UV Mapping. UV Mapping is the process of projecting a 2D image onto a 3D models surface for texture mapping. We were given a tutorial to follow and a few excercises to do to get us used to UV mapping … [Read more…]
PRESENTATION FEEDBACK This week in Animated Narratives we started off the class by going through all of our group presentations on the short animations we were given with Henry – with Aodhan and Sarah there as well to give feedback on them as well. The feedback on my groups presentation was feedback I … [Read more…]
SEMESTER 2 WEEK 2 In our Animated Narratives lecture this week we were shown 4 different presentations to help us understand how to analyse the short films we were assigned better, With Henry — we went over the use of colour in film, backgrounds, and the hero’s journey and how it applied to films such … [Read more…]
SEMESTER 2 WEEK 1 We were introduced to our new modules we were going to be working on this semester. One being Animated Narratives, and the other being Digital Literacy. Our final outcome is going to be due for the 5th of March, and we’re going to be modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing and real time … [Read more…]