VERTICAL SLICE This week I focused some more on concepts for the main character of our game and the enemy they’ll face at the end of the game and see glimpses of throughout. I started by collecting references and inspiration on Pinterest, making dedicated boards for the detective character and the monster. We still … [Read more…]
VERTICAL SLICE This week was the beginning of the second semester of the year. We had been told over the Christmas/New Years break that we were going to do a project with the 2nd year Games Design students, and filled out a form where we highlighted what preferred roles we would like to do … [Read more…]
RUN CYCLE BODY MECHANICS WALK CYCLE
WEEK 1-15 As someone who has a very keen interest in 2D animation, I was very excited to do this project as I could practice my practical animation skills through this and had the option to do whatever form of animation I wanted. I needed to do a lot of research though before … [Read more…]
PORTFOLIO ASSET CONCEPTS ASSETS TEXTURES ENVIROMENT SCREENSHOTS FINAL
WEEK 5-12 Moving on from week 4, I started to model some more objects that could go throughout our room. Since the environment we created has quite a scholarly and academic feeling despite being also cathedral/church-esque, I thought an abacus would be a good object to add as it adds to the environmental narrative … [Read more…]
WEEK 3-12 For the first part of this module, I was asked to identify 1 or 2 jobs within the Animation/VFX/Games industry that interests me and research them. I’m very interested in 2D animation, concept art and storyboarding, so I decided to research into these. I first started by looking into the 2D … [Read more…]
SHOWREELS We were asked to find two showreels which we thought were well edited and that we liked. I spent some time browsing vimeo and eventually found some I REALLY liked! The first is Antonio Villamandos 2020 animation showreel. From the get go it’s full of personality. It has a customised animated introduction screen … [Read more…]
WEEK TWO AND THREE: MAYA EXCERCISES, PRESENTATIONS, TRIM SHEETS, MODULAR ASSETS, CONCEPTS AND MODELLING BEGINNING We did an exercise in class which was to see if we remembered all of the tips and tricks we learned in Maya and how we could solve problems if they came up in our future modelling. I … [Read more…]
WEEK TWO: UNREAL ENGINE This week in the morning class went through an unreal engine tutorial. We started with a short menti quiz to quickly remind ourselves of the information we learnt in the recorded lecture we needed to watch before class — and then we watched the pre-prepared tutorial in the morning. This … [Read more…]