On Tuesday the 12th, we were briefed on two possible animations we could work on: a project from the NHS, to raise awareness of breast cancer among black women and minorities; and another project, from the Horniman Museum, to inform children over cats and/or dogs. Both briefs were explained well and would’ve made for interesting …
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Toonboom Harmony Basics 1
We finally had a class teaching us how to use the basics of Toonboom Harmony. I’ve always felt more comfortable with traditional drawing than digital, so it took a while to get used to it, but by the end I was already feeling more confident. We were tasked to create and color a character, so …
Informed Practice: First Lessons
In the first couple of Informed Practice lessons, we were introduced to our assignments, particularly the essay we’ll have to write. During the guest visit from Katerina Athanasopoulou, I decided to create a new art bank account like last year, for me and my coursemates to have constant access to links and resources mentioned in …
Principles of Animation Arts: Production Blueprint
After an in-site lesson introducing us to the course and the possible briefs for us to choose, we received two pre-recorded video lectures to teach us about production blueprints. The first video was short and briefly introduced the concept, whereas the second one went much more in-depth, showing examples of various blueprints and what to …
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Lip Sync Elective: Week 2
Once we finally got our TVPaint licenses working, we started bringing everything into the program. First off, we had to recreate our thumbnail panels into TVP, this time with a bit more detail. (IMAGE HERE; FULL SHOT OF ALL THE THUMBNAILS, AND THE COMPARISON OF PANEL3) We then had to time it out according to …
CTS: Beginning to Interim
In the Contextual and Theoretical Studies classes held each Friday, we learnt of various stories and methods used in horror media, from the earliest examples and fathers of the genre (stories like Frankenstein, Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde and Dracula) to more modern and advanced examples like Tetsua the Iron Man and Akira. One of …
Lip Sync Elective: Week 1
After a few weeks of break, we started the new elective, this time focusing on lip-syncing. It started by splitting us up into pairs and having us talk for two minutes about random topics given to us on the moment. Afterwards, we were put in other pairs, and were told to pick some audios and …
3D Elective: Final
After about 3 days of waiting, I finally got all 400 frames of my project rendered and ready. However, I ran into a very silly problem: I’d accidentally done it so the renders saved in a name format that wouldn’t work on Blender (name-format-number instead of name-number-format), so because of my small mistake I had …
3D Elective: Week 5
I’ve been spending the past few weeks finishing up my project. I finally managed to import all the main textures from Substance Painter into Maya. Along with the HDRI image, it makes for a very clean-looking model that I’m fairly proud of. The animating took a lot of focus and effort, since the main pieces …
3D Elective: Week 4
This week we looked more into texturing and mapping, as well as getting into lighting our scenes. First, I experimented with some of the material attribute features on Maya, to get a feel for it. I tried using a variety of materials big enough to differentiate the pieces, but not so many that it became …