Before our classes officially start up again next week Alec made us a helpful tutorial introducing us to Maya and 3D concepts through creating a cute cactus model. This was a fun refresher of fundamentals as I have a fair amount of modelling experience using Maya, however not so much with rigging and animating. WhileContinue reading Pre-Semester 2- Cute Cactus Model
I have more experience and shorthand developed for drawing human figures and shots where the main character Amka has a focus are to a higher standard than the animal scenes. Unfortunately, I’m a perfectionist so I think everything could be improved in some way. I had more fun drawing those shots than those with theContinue reading Module Reflection – 500 words +10%
Final Animation: I unfortunately didn’t have much time to add in a background for the animation. I attempted to once the all the animation was cleaned up however, it would be a time-consuming task to implement a background for all shots. I realised later on that the environment in this scene would be dark andContinue reading Final Animation
For Week 12, groups were to record a presentation showcasing the animation project’s work in progress. This was my individual segment, showing my storyboard, animatic and some early roughs: Our groups full WIP presentation:
When doing the roughs for my animation, I didn’t work on the shots in chronological order. I started off with the shots I thought would be the easiest to get out of the way first. So while I have the roughs and progress presented in their final order here, I worked on these in differentContinue reading Week 10 – Animation Roughs & Progress
Making a animatic to figure out timing of my rough storyboard. First Pass I think there’s a few cuts that don’t work very well. And some of the pacing is also a bit off. Leaving some parts of the animatic a bit jarring. Currently the animatic sits at 18 seconds. I also want to addContinue reading Week 9 – Animatics & Secondary Actions
The finals ran from Monday 15th to Wednesday 17th November. The overall theme of the brief was based on an unreleased game called “Are You Squidding Me? The Game”. We were told the visual style of the game was Mario-esque and was to be released for the Nintendo Switch. Our designs had to be light-heartedContinue reading 3D Digital Game Art Finals
I did a rough animation of a little guy walking and used him to mess about with using 2D animated objects in combination with the 3D space in Blender. He’s got some popping but I thought it was ok for experimenting with. Animating the camera in 3D in combination with 2D objects works as IContinue reading Experimentation with 2D Animation in Blender
Storyboard written plan (paper and digital) for scene 4 + walrus/seal warm up sketch The original write up/description by Charlotte of my scene: The context/description of the scenes (3 & 5) that come before and after mine: Starting my storyboard, I was able to reference Jonathan’s completed storyboards and animatic (shown below) which was extremelyContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating with Forms
UV layouts and mapping techniques I still have difficulty optimising my UV layouts and making use of the all the space. There’s often still gaps that could be used. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2071/uv_mapping_tips_and_tricks.php?print=1 An old article from 2004 but some of techniques/fundamentals still apply. Screenshots from the above linked article. FlippedNormals course on UV Mapping for Games: https://flippednormals.com/downloads/uv-mapping-for-games/Continue reading 3D Modelling Training #7