This project was insightful but also challenging. I loved being able to research gravity falls but in my research I found it hard to recreate the style in a convincing way but I feel that I somewhat improved by the end of this project. I enjoyed the initial modeling and found that using the sculptingContinue reading Reflection
Initially modeling and texturing my character was fine but also time consuming so when I fell into issue later on I had little time to fix my mistakes. I started modeling getting the basic shapes with subdivided cubes. Modeling the clothes was confusing at first but I ended up being very happy with the results.Continue reading Modeling My Character
Today we got an introduction to storyboarding Flour Bag Jump Flour bag wizard Group Work In our groups we created a timeline for our animation dividing the scenes between us and beginning to work on our storyboards. My scene was a traveling scene and second in our animation. The scene followsContinue reading Week 2: Storyboarding
In todays class we were instructed to make a variety of ball animations displaying different weights on Krita. We started with a practice of a ball simply bouncing up and down. Weight Animations Rubber Ball Football Animation Bowling Ball Ping Pong Ball
Starting My Character Design I started by experimenting with a similar design but with two differently aged characters. I played around with form to make another version but with a more awkward stance adding more personality to the character. For the third design I explored the idea of creating a slightly older character. I exaggeratedContinue reading Character Design
This week I started to research “Gravity Falls”, the show I chose for this project. Gravity falls was a highlight of my childhood and I absolutely love the art and character design behind this show! Alex Hirsch was inspired to create the show from his childhood memories with his sister during the summer. I lovedContinue reading Character Research
In Class Activity Shapes to faces Exaggeration study I picked the picture of Merlyn Munroe for this activity. I inspired my work off of 1950’s fashion magazines exaggerating her face and body. Concepts based on any character/creature This character design was based on a siren, a mythical creature with a voice that could lure sailorsContinue reading Week 5: Character Design
The blender task week 1-5 where challenging but also a great introduction to the software. I found myself improving greatly week by week. I particularly loved using substance painter and loved the creativity it allows for designing your model. I found some aspects of the project challenging in particular UV unwrapping and using the mirrorContinue reading Reflection
Class Activity We first started with a colour exercise using different colour pallets! This is the Original Image: My Colouring: For the first colour pallet I chose to make it more otherworldly- while the second one is more realistic in its colour pallet. I used the websites color Adobe and coolors. World Colour PalletsContinue reading Colour- Week 4
This week we did unwrapping and UV Mapping practicing with a hammer, dice, coke can then a sword! The Dice Starting with the dice. The process for the dice was simple and a good introduction to UV wrapping. Final Render The Can The can was pretty easy, to get extra practice I also created aContinue reading Week 4! UV Mapping