Animation

And so, finally after many a long night and a whole bunch of learning it's finished. I'm pretty pleased upon reflection, although a few nights ago I was all ready to throw in the towel as I just couldn't get Unreal to render the camera properly, 12 hrs and a…

Fun! At last I'm at the part when I can see it coming together; I've been working hard in trying to understand the landscaping and foliage processes in Unreal, it's a bit fiddly and I came unstuck for a day or so when all my lovely grasses morphed into weird…

The last week has been a tremendous series of productive late nights, mostly fuelled by the impending deadline in two weeks time. Understanding the wise quote by Voltaire - 'Perfect is the enemy of good', I've been drilling down into lists that will (hopefullly) deliver a good essence of what…

Finally I've found a full proof method for solid weight painting in Maya, in looking around for rigs to use for the giant in the forest, I decided upon another Mixamo rig and spent a fair few hours getting it ready for animating; rigging and weight painting.  As I came…

It's been a super busy week, moving from generating some content for the weekly tasks, namely a running cycle this week, and moving forwards with my main project. In trying to ensure that I hit the deadline in 4 weeks time, my time has been bouncing around somewhat gymnastically between…

This week I've been working on a series of animations, mostly the work I have been concentrating on has been for the main graded assignment, a skipping cycle and the walk cycle of the two characters timed together, I'm hoping that as this has gone reasonably well, swiftly, that it…

Having a bit of experience in After Effects, duplicating the storyboard psd and arranging a tiled series of zoomed in layers, it was nice and easy to arrange the rough timings. I found a handy little fade in and out expression here and after swiftly copying and pasting it onto…

Here's the storyboards  for my 1st project, entitled 'The Catch'. And page 2 I've very much enjoyed scribbling these out, trying to capture the essence of the type of charm and sudden surprise at the end. In particular I've been playing close attention to staging, secondary action and anticipation, some…

Having been working hard to keep up with the weekly tasks it's come onto my radar the necessity to prioritise the main project assignment. It's due in on Dec 11th and is there to showcase both our understanding of the knowledge and techniques, but also to embed some storytelling creativity.…

This week has been particularly stressful, not because of the animation task (breathe life into a small angle-poise lamp) but the porting of the Maya animation into Unreal. I've long held a belief that if I were to do the MA course, it'd be needing to implement Unreal as the…