Category: Animated Narratives

—Ideas for the Animation— ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   —Concepting—   ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   —Animatics— ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   —Assigning Modelling Parts— ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   —Block Out of Environment— ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   —Modelling Process— —Table—   —Chairs—   —Cupboard—   —Counter—   —Assembly—   —Deteriorate— ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   —UV Unwrapping— —Table—   —Chairs—   —Cupboard—   —Counter—   —Final Adjustments—   —Clean Up— ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Continue reading Assignment 3 – Portfolio

—Ideas for the Animation— During this semester our group arranged to meet inside and outside of class to discuss ideas for Assignment 3. We all settled on the idea of a ghost looking for a snack in the middle of the night.   After deciding on the idea for the assignment, we all made aContinue reading Assignment 3 – 15-30 Second Animated Short

Class:  Morning class: During this morning’s class I uploaded the Presentation to the OneDrive link Alec provided and we watched all the group presentations. During the viewings we received some feedback which included: – Make the ghosts eyes a different colour from the body – Animated the tail a bit more for him flying acrossContinue reading Week 14 – Last class and info for 2nd year

Class:  Morning class: For this morning’s class we were told to complete the video uploaded to Blackboard.   —Video 1: Hardware 2.0 Rendering— In this video we were shown what settings to change if using this render. Can be found under ‘Renderer-> Viewport 2.0’.   I went into the render settings, ‘Windows-> Rendering Editors-> RenderContinue reading Week 13 – Hardware 2.0 (Viewport) Rendering

Class:  Morning class: The Animation Society came in and had a talk about events and where to sign up for interviews if you want to join the society for next year! After that, we were tasked with working through the videos on Blackboard while we waited to be called into the breakout group for feedbackContinue reading Week 12 – Rendering & Post Production

Week 10 – Easter Holiday (Week 1) Class:  Due to the Easter break there was no class this week! I focused on my Assignment 2 this week as the deadline was Tuesday the 6th. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Assignment 2: Completed the Assignment on time and handed it in. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________       Week 11 – EasterContinue reading Week 10 + 11 (Easter Holiday)

-Research- When I was tasked with this assignment I instantly knew that I wanted to do an action movie like kick and a really happy skipping motion. I began looking for other animators who had done these types of motions and how they did them. I also looked at some reference videos so that IContinue reading Assignment 2 – An Action & An Emotion

Class:  Morning class: During this morning’s class we went over what we are going to do today and watched Alec’s presentation on Rendering. After this we were tasked with working through the videos posted on Blackboard.   —Video 1: Substance Painter To Maya Arnold Renderer— Firstly, I opened the provided ‘Hard Surface Model’ in Maya,Continue reading Week 9 – Lighting & Rendering

Class:  Morning class: Left to work on the videos on Blackboard.   —Video 1: Blocking— Shown what we will achieve by following the videos. Ensured that the settings were correct and shown how to open the file as a reference file. This makes it less likely that the rig will break and turns the characterContinue reading Week 8 – Animation Practice & Rigging Continued & Assignment 3

Class:  Morning class: During this morning we were tasked with completing the videos uploaded to blackboard.   —Exercise 1: Jump Intro— Shown an example of what the final animation should look like.   —Exercise 2: Jump Setup— Shown how to use the ‘grease pencil tool’ to roughly plan out the poses and timing of theContinue reading Week 7 – Animation Practice, Introduction to Rigging & Intro to Assignment 2