After spending the summer away from my computer for the most part, I really appreciated the opportunity to refresh my skills on Substance Painter and the introduction some new skills; adding photo textures and gradients to a mesh using masks. I also found that this was a good opportunity to explore some more of the…Continue Reading Applying Photo Textures- Substance Painter
The last few weeks of class and independent study have been hectic to say the least, mainly because it takes a lot of time and patience to cope with learning how to use new software or new features on previously used softwares, as well as troubleshooting all the issues that come with this, but we…Continue Reading Rigging, Animating and Rendering
Before retopologising my model, I decided to re-block and re-sculpt it, because the shape of my character felt a little too simplistic for an assignment focused on sculpting, so I added some more curvature to my model as well as sculpting a more realistic foot shape. It took a few more attempts than I had…Continue Reading Retopology, Texturing & Sketchfab; Final Assignment
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
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
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
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
For our second assignment in this module, we are tasked with designing, modelling and sculpting a ‘cute (organic) 3D character’. At first I was concerned it would be difficult to come up with a design that would be interesting and have some ‘personality’ to it, given the parameters of no hard surfaces and no individual…Continue Reading Week 7; Introduction to Assignment 2
After baking my texture maps, I applied them to the model I imported into Sketchfab. I was really impressed with the interface in terms of the different effects I could apply to my model, such as chromatic aberration and altering the depth of field, and I was able to apply a blurred forest background to…Continue Reading S2 Week 5: Sketchfab and Texture Maps / My Finished Model
While completing this task in class, my software seemed to be having some issues, for example, I was unable to assign a checker shader to my shapes, and so I had to find a manual workaround, and it took a while for me to understand which edges to cut in order to unfold each shape…Continue Reading S2 Weeks 3 & 4; Applying Textures & Introduction to Substance Painter