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…]
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 6-7 I didn’t focus so much on animated narratives on week 6 as the deadline for my 3D Digital Literacy project was coming up and I wanted to tie it all up before focusing on other things. In week 7 we were told about rigging, and given exercises so that … [Read more…]
S2 WEEK 5 This week in class we spent the morning time watching all of our presentations we had created showing each groups journey so far in the pre-production of our animated shorts. After lunch, in our journey to learn how to animate in Maya, this week we have increased the size … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]