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…]
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…]
S2 WEEK 7 This week Henry introduced us to Blender, Blender is a 3D creation suite and the reason we’re being shown this is because our next assignment is an Intro to Organic Modelling. This Organic Modelling assignment requires us to model/sculpt, texture and present via Sketchfab, a cute character in order … [Read more…]
At the beginning of the year, I had never touched 3D art, never attempted it or looked at programs pertaining to it, but I’ve just completed my first project in 3D, and though I’ve made mistakes, I am so proud of my progress! On the first week, I found myself needing over an hour … [Read more…]
S2 WEEK 5 For 3D digital literacy this week we’re back in Substance Painter, and Alec looked over a few of our models. In terms of the Substance painter tutorials, we were asked to look at and follow along, in the first one we took the Hard Surface model from previous … [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…]
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…]