WEEK ONE: ANIMATION STRATEGIES In Animation Strategies this week we were on campus for the first time in a year and a half, so it was actually my first day on campus since starting animation at Ulster. It was very strange having class in person for once. We were introduced to our first … [Read more…]
S1 WEEK 1-2 I looked for a few job roles that people can have in the animation industry, and I had a look at them. BACKGROUND DESIGNER Firstly, I looked at what a background designer does in the industry. They’re in the pre-production part of the pipeline, and do their work after the … [Read more…]
This cute character assignment was the most difficult project I had done over this year of projects. I had never modelled a character before and had never even looked at Blender. I faced lots of roadblocks during this project, and had to juggle the 30 second animation with it, it was very difficult … [Read more…]
S2 WEEK 8-12 (Decided to keep the weeks contained into one long post for efficiency.) After creating my concept sheets and going through some early concept art for my cute character. I started to refine my character. My character is going to be based on an ink cap mushroom and they’re an artist! Their … [Read more…]
REFLECTION My first year at this animation course was spent in a very unexpected way, due to COVID19. I think, however, that in terms of what I learnt and what I think of what I learnt, it was very positive. The Animated Narratives module was the biggest and most difficult project I felt … [Read more…]
ANIMATED NARRATIVES PORTFOLIO CONCEPT ART MODELLING UV UNWRAPPING TEXTURING TEST RENDERS ANIMATION FINAL ANIMATION
S2 WEEK 8-12 I’m switching to having multiple weeks of work contained in one blog post for my ease of work while I focus on getting the animaton done. After previously UV-unwrapping the room in the previous week I started adding textures to the models I made in Substance Painter, I went ahead and … [Read more…]
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ANIMATOR/ANIMATION RESEARCH AND ANIMATION REFERENCES/INSPIRATION + THUMBNAILED ANIMATION/ANIMATION REFLECTION Over the duration of assignment 2, I needed to conduct some artist research so I could gather inspiration and learn how they did things. I wanted to look at 3D artists and animators, since I was making 3D animations. I wanted to look … [Read more…]
S2 WEEK 8 Things are getting more complicated this week in 3D Digital Literacy. We we’re shown pre-recorded demonstrations we were to attempt in blender. These were based on blocking our characters out and were given to us to show us how to use differing methods to create basemeshes for our models, … [Read more…]