For our first time animating using 3D software, our lecturers provided us with a file of a green blob, and we watched tutorial videos on how to animate it jumping from one side of the screen to the other, as well as adding a sound effect to cue at a specific frame. A link to…Continue Reading Week 4: 3D Animation
Week 3: Starting 20-30s Animated Short Assignment
For this half of assignment 2, we have been asked to create a 20-30s animated short within our chosen groups. The short must derive from the theme or prompt of ‘nature’. My group is comprised of Odhran McManus, Aveen Fitzpatrick, Dylan Short and Lauren Maxwell. After brainstorming our ideas on a class whiteboard, we found…Continue Reading Week 3: Starting 20-30s Animated Short Assignment
Week 10: Retopology
Using the model of an elephant’s face provided for us in our lecture materials, this week we were introduced to retopology, which is essentially creating a new mesh on the surface of a complex model so that it can be optimised for animation. All in all, the flow of the mesh seemed to be working…Continue Reading Week 10: Retopology
Week 8: Blocking Out and Sculpting
Originally, I began to block out my character on Maya, given that this is the software I am most familiar with, however, I started over the process in Blender once I realised that the voxel sizes were different and the scale was measured in metres as opposed to centimetres; In the next week, I’ll be…Continue Reading Week 8: Blocking Out and Sculpting