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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]