First Semester Review

Throughout the first semester of final year, the feeling of coming back into the home university set up after being away for a year was something that was quite daunting to me. After returning and starting to make some real breakthroughs within our team work, I felt more confident and comfortable with the requirements of final year. With the help of my team and the tutor team, my first semester of final year has been one of huge learning curves the have benefited me in my team work skills and my confidence in the field of production.

With the major project in full swing, my dissertation was something that continually sat in the back of my mind but wasn’t something I was truly giving enough focus to until it got towards the crunch time of the last few weeks before hand in. I enjoyed the research aspect of the dissertation but found the hardest stage of writing it thinking of the first words to write down in the document. With the help of the tutor team I was able to complete the dissertation in good time and I enjoyed getting to delve into an aspect of animation and technological creativity that I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.

I made big leaps forward in semester one is relation to trying out new softwares and have become more settled in my ability to model assets and pre-produce a project. I am excited for the second semester as we take even more steps forward and begin finalising our work for the end of year show. My role for the next month or so is finalising the textures within our environment, producing final models for the scene and then moving onto animation tests with our newly rigged characters.

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Prop Animation

Alongside our character animation, there is more to our scene that just an environment and moving characters. The assets that these characters engage and draw attention to, also play an important part in the overall dynamic and quality of the story. Assets such as the coffee pot, paper, crayons, clock, cloth and menu are some of the elements of our project that also need to be animated and worked with in partnership with our characters. Within this blog, I will discuss the process of animating these elements and provide playblast videos of what these models look like in action. Firstly, our menu. The menu has been talked about a lot ever since we have our story line finalised way back in October. We never really tied down how this object would appear, how it would animate and what features it would have. Originally, the AI waitress would pull the menu out from behind her back when welcoming us, set it on the table and it would come to life....

Personal Reflection - Final Year

As the time to submit our project approaches faster than ever, it feels right to look back yea, at the last several months, yes over the last year of Uni, but also, over the last four years I have spent at Ulster University. This year was a year of superior unsurity, yet a feeling of excitement and wonder about what the FInal Year journey would be like. Being in the team I find myself in, was an amazing thing for me. Never in my four years as an Ulster University student, have I had more confidence in the ability and determination of a group of people to achieve a task wholeheartedly and true. Lorna, Cassie and Megan? You guys were the best team I could ask for in my Final Year of University *sniffle sniffle bleh* Taking on a virtual reality project brought with it many challenges both personally for myself and for us as a team. For myself, I found the technicalities and new software hard to adapt to. Having been out of the animation...

Final Year Portfolio

This post will highlight some of the work I have completed throughout the Major Project of my Final Year as an animation student Social Media Cover Photo MASLOW and Happy Place Logos Image Menu Animation UV Unwrapping and Texturing Coffee Pot Animation Pit Stop Development Video Project Poster Concept MASLOW Promotional GIF Little Girl - Lip Sync Animation Pit Stop Initial Modelling Finalised CV Final Business Card Design Final Environment (lighting and rendering by Cassie Galloway)

For One Last Time

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