Category: Animation for the Creative Industries

Morning Class: During this morning I worked on modelling and texturing assets for assignment 1 until 12:40 which was when I had my studies advice meeting with Yuan.   Afternoon Class: This afternoon I continued to work on modelling and texturing. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Assignment 1 : Progress: This week I worked on creating small backgroundContinue reading Week 6 – Studies Advice Tutorials

Morning Class: Online This morning Michael gave a presentation on character rigging and what it is that riggers actually do. We looked into what are important considerations to think about when rigging and some recaps of parent/child relationship, local vs global transformations and what is FK and IK. Next we did a menti quiz basedContinue reading Week 5 – Character Rigging

Morning Class: For this morning’s class Alec explained what we had to do and where we could find the exercise files while he took groups of us up to see the Mocap room.   —Exercise 1 – Mocap Introduction— Basically showed what the other videos will be going over as a brief overview.   —ExerciseContinue reading Week 4 – Working with Mocap Data

Morning Class: During this morning’s class Alec gave a lecture on placement and final year; it’s worth 60 credits and you need to finalise your choice by July. After we looked at the exercise videos that Alec posted on Blackboard. —Exercise— For this exercise we were provided with a rigged character and some animations. FirstlyContinue reading Week 3 – Animation for Games

Morning Class: This morning the class had a few technical difficulties and was delayed until 10:50am. To begin, Alec showed us an example of some facial and lip sync animation and gave a presentation on what to improve from last semester and facial animation. Next we looked at the studio library which is an addonContinue reading Week 2 – Facial Animation

Morning Class: This morning Henry welcomed us back from the break and reviewed what we will be going over this semester. He explained the handbook, what will be required of us during this project and what sort of things we will be covering in the coming classes. We also went in depth into what thingsContinue reading Week 1 – Module Introduction