Category: Animated Narratives

Class:  There is no formal class this week but one to one advice sessions that will allow us to ask any questions we have about the module and how we are doing this semester. My meeting will be on the 4th of March at 3:20pm with Henry.   —Meeting with Henry— On the 4th ofContinue reading Week 6 – Reading Week & Assignment 3

Morning class: For this week’s class we watched the presentations that we were working on last week. Our groups presentation was first; we received some really good feedback: – Good research – Add more scenes to the animatic – Shorten or remove the sleep scene – Decide with or without ARMS for the ghost –Continue reading Week 5 – Animation & 3D Previs

Class:  Morning class: For this morning class Alec wanted to cover: – how to set up Maya for animation – forward and inverse kinematics – blocking animations – some simple rigs – more of the graph editor We also went over the importance of timing and spacing in animation. Frame by frame animation can beContinue reading Week 4 – 3D Animation & Assignment 3

Class:  Morning class: For this week’s morning class we reviewed the presentations that we have been working on for the past few weeks. After watching our presentation we received some feedback from Henry, Aodhan and Sarah; – the sprites should be smaller than the images used as they may be a distraction. – We shouldContinue reading Week 3 – Animation Pipeline, Assignment 2 & 3

Class: Morning class: In the morning Henry gave a lecture on analysing films. Some examples are ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse’. We looked at the composition of the backgrounds of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and the use of different frame rates in ‘Into the Spider-Verse’. After this, Aodhan gave a lecture on ‘Primal’. We lookedContinue reading Week 2 – Analysing, Animated Narratives & Assignment 1

Class: Morning class: During the morning class, we reviewed the module handbook, the semester schedule and what will be covered in the morning classes and the afternoon classes.  We were introduced to our first assignment: ‘Narrative Studies – Presentation’ that is needed to be completed by the 13th of February. This was a very usefulContinue reading Week 1 – Module Introduction, The Hero’s Journey & Assignment 1