I was a bit nervous about this assignment prior to starting it. Sculpting has always seemed intimidating and easy to mess up. I was really excited about the theme though and I was researching and looking at a lot of cute character references in advance. Once it came to coming up with my own concept,Continue reading 3D Digital Literacy – Assignment 2 – 200 Words Reflection
Embed Viewer: Capybara Hot Spring by savscarlett on Sketchfab Direct Link: https://skfb.ly/ou67B
Sculpting Progression I think I went back to a previous blender file in this screenshot as the larger capybara has been un-joined and hasn’t yet been sculpted. I think I wasn’t happy with how the earlier sculpt was going, since I grouped everything together as one all at once so when I remeshed, it wasn’tContinue reading 3D Digital Literacy – Capybara Sculpt Progression – Sculpting, Retopo, UVs + Texturing
Reflecting on my first year as well as this module, I have learned so much about animation both in 2D and 3D. I’m really happy with our final group animation. Of course, there’s some issues but I think we really pulled together towards the end. I’m also really happy with my own scenes and contributionContinue reading Animated Narratives – First Year & 3D Short Reflection
Concept Work Storyboard Animatic 3D Previs Rough Environment + Character Assets + Shots 1,5,6 of pre-vis Full Group 3D Pre-vis Helmet Sprite Character Modelling + Rig Final Environment Asset Modelling, Sculpting + Texturing Environment lighting Animation + Test Render (540p) Individual Scenes Final Renders (1080p) Final Group Animation Clips were edited together by PhilipContinue reading Animated Narratives – Portfolio
Rendering took a lot of time as expected, and I’m glad I was able to leave just enough time for it. My first shot was taking around 7 minutes per frame to render at the beginning but however, it seemed to speed up at the render progressed, taking around 4 minutes 30 seconds per frame,Continue reading Animated Narratives – Rendering
I also handled the majority of the lighting for our environment. I went back and through between a few different HDRI maps to use as the basis for our lighting but ultimately liked this one from PolyHaven the most. https://polyhaven.com/a/autumn_ground I took the HDRI map into Photoshop and gave it a gaussian blur as IContinue reading Animated Narratives – Environment Lighting Process
I was responsible for animating shots 1, 5 and 6 of our group animation. Shot 1 was extremely straightforward as it was just animating the camera to zoom in from one point to another and that took no time at all to set up. That scene also already had lighting so I copied those lightsContinue reading Animated Narratives – Character Animation
With my character rig ready to animate, we desperately needed environment assets and to start arranging them into an actual environment for our animation. I quickly made a more developed blockout than that of the assets I made for our 3D pre-vis. I offered to work on the environment assets as I thought I wouldContinue reading Animated Narratives – Environment Assets/Creation
The character rig was a complicated process. I think it started off really well with the initial skeleton placement + control constraints but it became complicated when I needed to fix the eyes on my character. Mike and Alec pointed out that my previous model of the rigs would be difficult to easily animate asContinue reading Animated Narratives – Character Rig