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)

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Optimising Models

To optimise our scene even further, myself and our Director, Cassie, decided to start deleting faces for various models in our scene that are never seen by the user. These are mainly on furniture, large counters, table items, counter items, fridge and kitchen door. In this blog, I will post the videos of a few of the newly optimised models, some images from the process and explanations from other blogs and videos I watched as to how basic models need to be to ensure our scene is optimised as much as it can be. I found the article from Evermotion on optimising scenes to be very helpful in giving me the knowledge and understanding of why optimisation is such a large part of a project such as ours. The real time rendering that we will be using within unity is processing a lot of information at one time. If a project has a lot of textures, geometry and animation, this can be described as an expensive project. Not that it costs a lot of money, but rather i...

CV and Business Card

Before heading into the big bad world of employment and potential freelance work, it is essential we leaving Undergraduate level with a professional portfolio of components we can use to sell our skills and help put us on the industry map to propel us towards a future career. This is in regards to two main pieces of self promotion. The CV and business card. It is important we have these designed, printed and accessible on the night of our end of year show so that company reps, directors and other industry members can view our projects and then take something tangible away from it to remember who we are and what we are capable of. When it comes to CV, I have always been taught through my years of business orientated education that it is simple, clean and not overly creative. I was always taught that colour is tacky, images are resented and icons are acceptable but need to remain minimal. When I approached this initial design stage of an updated and a...

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....

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