Animation Blog
—Concept Art— —Models— Tuatha Assets by Nicole_13 on Sketchfab —Sprites— —2D Animation— -Cutscene 1- -Final Animation- Music used was created by Oisin McShane from the Sound design class. -Cutscene 2- -Animatic- -Cutscene 3- -Final Animation- Music used was created by Oisin McShane from the Sound design class.
—The Room Task— At the start of this project we were all split into groups. I was placed in group A as an animator and rigger. In week 1, we were tasked with establishing a game concept and creating a ‘room’ that could fit within that concept. This also allowed all members of the teamContinue reading Assignment 1 – Vertical Slice Group Project
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—Research— When starting this project I wanted to create a 2D animation but due to time restraints and other responsibilities I chose to create a 3D animation instead. I looked into different studios that did a range of different animation styles like 2D or 3D and found Flickerpix Animation Studios. Their work is intended forContinue reading Assignment 2 – Personal Development Project
Morning Class: During today’s class we all individually presented our current progress to the rest of the groups and tutors for feedback. My group’s presentation was the first at 10:00am. Afternoon Class: During the afternoon the other groups continued presenting to everyone. We went a bit over the scheduled time but it was nice toContinue reading Week 12 – Final Presentations
Morning Class: During this morning’s class Henry asked us to open After Effects and work through a few exercises with him. —Exercise 1: Camera Tracking— Add a camera tracking to some footage and some graffiti graphic that alters with the footage. After, Henry reviewed the finished exercises and made them available on BlackboardContinue reading Week 11 – VFX, Compositing & Camera Tracking
Morning Class: During this morning Alec discussed what we were going to be doing today and the rough timeline for the rest of the semester and deadlines. Today we completed an activity that involved some reference images and videos that Alec recorded for us to use. —Exercise— For this exercise we made the keyContinue reading Week 10 – Animation Practice
Morning Class: This morning Sorcha was running late so Alec talked with us about assignment 2 for this class and that he wants to review what we have done from the start of this project to now so we need to create a Onedrive with all our files. Sorcha arrived around 11:15 and started classContinue reading Week 9 – After Effects 2
Morning Class: For this morning’s class Sorcha had a lecture on After Effects.She covered what typeface and typography are, how they are different and how each design choice can tell a story. We also covered what kinetic typography is, the difference between art and design and what a display font is. Next we covered howContinue reading Week 8 – After Effects 1 and Play Test
Morning Class: For this morning we all worked on our game projects while Michael came around and gave feedback and assistance on anything we needed help with. Afternoon Class: During the afternoon we gave our presentations to Matthew and Daryl and received some feedback. We need to speed up production They liked my modelsContinue reading Week 7 – Support Session