When I found out that we were analysing animated short films, I was excited – analysing text and media was something I loved doing in A-Levels and GCSE. I was super nervous about the presentation as I was worried I was going to mess up or forget to say something while I was standing at […]
Week 1 // 3D Animation
This week we learnt from home! We spoke about what to expect for this module and the assignments that we were going to have. Henry spoke about ‘Hero’s Journey’ and used a couple of examples to help us understand it; I thought about the Hunger Games for each part of the cycle where Katniss goes […]
500 word reflection animation
This module taught me A LOT. At the start, I was worried because I didn’t feel like I was creative enough and wouldn’t do as well as others in the class. The more we did in class, the more I started loving it (Aodhan and Sarah are definitely one of the reasons for this). The […]
Week 12 // Final Animation
This week we presented online. Seeing everyone’s animations so far was super cool and I was excited to see what everyone had came up with. When it came to my groups turn, we got feedback at the end; the feedback for me was to add a secondary action to the walk cycle for the girl […]
Week 11 // Armatures, SketchFab and Reflection
This week in class we focused on rigging our models so that we could then upload it to sketchfab. In class, we used Mike’s example model of an alien and then added armatures to it. This is what mine looked like: After this, we then used the pose mode in blender to pose this […]
Week 9 + 10 // Topology, adding details to model
This week in class, we started hard sculpting our character! Our first task was to create a head; I decided to go with the head I needed to make for my character. It was really fun to do – I kept looking at my drawing for reference. After sculpting his face, I added a moustache […]
Week 7 + 8 // Intro to sculpting and character design
This week, we began learning more about soft sculpting and our next assignment! In class, we done two tasks so that we could get used to soft sculpting in blender. Our first task was for us to learn how to use different tools, in class Mike made a rock however in the middle of […]
Week 10 + 11 // Animatics + Animation
This week for our task in class, we learnt how to clean up line art for animation and to colour it in! This is what mine looks like: After this, we got feedback on our animatics as a team. This was our whole animatic put together: This was my part: […]
Week 9 // Animatics
This week in class, we learnt more about animatics and how to use after effects! In class, we done an exercise where we were given files and had to animate them in after effects; I thought it looked super confusing at first but the more I done it, the easier it got! This is […]
Week 8 // Storyboard + WIP
This week, we focused on storyboards! To start of the class, we made a storyboard for a jumping flour sack. I found it a little difficult as I wanted to make my it look like the camera was panning at the end to make it loop, but it was harder than I thought and […]