This week, we tried to nail down our final idea before going off for easter. We messaged a couple of times in discord, but it was hard trying to work out when everyone was free to call; we all felt like we haven’t been communicating as much and that we are a little behind so […]
Week 6 // Presentation and Choosing Final Designs
This week, my group presented. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there in person but they kept me up to date on discord! This was our presentation: This is our 3D Previs with everyone’s put together! I was told that the feedback we got about our story from Alec was that we needed to […]
Week 4 + 5 // Previs
This week, we learnt about previs for our 3D animation! At first in class, we got tasked with using the file Alec provided us and animating the previs. I found this really fun to do and I loved being able to control the cameras and cuts. This is what mine looked like: For […]
Week 2 + 3 // Animation Project
We focused more on our ideas for our animated short! On Monday we called before class just to go over a few of our ideas. We made moodboards and Janet had already modelled an idea for a ghost character! We came up with many: I kinda liked the idea of it being like dark like […]
World of Animation // Assignment 1 Reflective Analysis
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 […]