Category: Animated Narratives

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

Once we got a better idea of how our story was going to work with the help of our early storyboards, both mine and Lyndsey’s can be seen this in this post. We tried to refine the idea and try to make the storyline more clear from our regular feedback from lecturers. Lyndsey’s final storyboardContinue reading Animated Narratives – 3D Pre-vis

I set up a discord server for our group and we quickly got started on coming up with some initial ideas. Lyndsey had a really good idea to start us off about a waterfight happening between plantpots. She also made a miro board for us all to collaborate on and share ideas, references, concept art,Continue reading Animated Narratives – Initial Ideas + Concept Work