Studio Practice

This project was a roller coaster. I set really high standards for myself, not really knowing what i was getting myself into. It started out...

Today I managed to get almost everything done for turn in. I finished half of the final after effects project, and I also managed to render ...

I managed to get a lot done this week, I fixed the eye controls, as well as putting together the fluid systems for both the fire and the oc...

I managed to get the face Re-targeted onto my model by today. I'm still behind, and i need to remake my hair systems since the older one...

This past week has been rough. My sleeping schedule has been all over the place, so im working at home a lot of the time. But since my lapto...

I had originally planned to go back to Leeds by now, however, There have been family matters i need to attend to, so I'm staying an extr...

I finished in the recording studio, and I also got a quote for the motion capture of the body. Its going to be somewhere around 3000 dollars...

This week i managed to start modelling the body. Most of the week was me recovering form the jetlag however, so I couldnt get as much work d...

Today I managed to make most of the blendshapes on my rig. Ill be taking the next week off to go to Lille, since im attending a workshop at...

Ive started rigging the face. Its been a while since ive last done this so its a little hard to grasp, but i think i'm managing. ...

I had to restart my head model. Apparently i made it with the wrong geometry so i had to restart from scratch. At least i can streamline the...

I've begun work on the head mesh for my character. Mat told me about working with a facial recognition mapping program called Faceware T...

Rosie was too busy to help with my project. But Dan will be giving me some 3D assets for me to work with in my animation. Thomas Parker, an ...

Today I've reached out to some of the second years to see if they wanted to help me create assets for my animation. So Far ive gotten a ...

Recently I have reached out to a few contacts to see if I can outsource some of the project to help alleviate my workload. I called upon one...

Here's a few character colourizations of the main antagonist of the story. She is a forest spirit known as the Huldra, and basically ...

 Here's a few character sketches of the main character. He will serve as a storyteller and narrator of the story. I recently reached ...

I've created rough matte paintings of the environment i want for my animation. Each one represents a direction that the VR user will lo...

I started out trying to make Auroras in the sky. I plan on using this experience to help with the design of the aurora in the maya animation...

Over the past month i've been mulling over two ideas for my animation. I've narrowed my idea down to the point where I know i want t...

This module was an interesting one. I put off most of the work I had to do since I had so many other animations to work on and I didn't ...

We all decided to use the Epic Mountain song Into the Wild for our audio track on the animation. Joe contacted them for licensing and got pe...

This is the last and final scene I had to do before I was done with my scenes for this project. It was a scene of a forest fire, which I t...

 This next shot I had to make was about the logging industry. I needed to show how the logging industry can help attribute to the causes o...

My friend told me today that he won't be able to get the music done in time for the turn in date. Apparently his computer has been crash...

I was told that the scene for this was supposed to be a shot of the four pre-comps I did breaking apart into the next shot. I wanted a bre...

 I finished the rest of the forest biomes and pre-comped them into a larger Composition. Callum asked for me to make them come in from all...

We still haven't figured out a typeface for our animation. But Joe and Callum have figured out a backup plan if my friend doesn't fi...

 I've finished the Alpine forest today. I used the same method as I did the first one, but with different assets for it. I had trouble...

I've started working on the Outro scene since i haven't gotten some of the cutouts i need to finish the first scene. In this scen...

Ive finished the first part of the first scene, and I've started working on the next few parts of it. Initially Callum wanted me to make...