Author Archives: David Edwards
Week 4: Establishing a Research Topic with Nigel
Introduction: This Week’s Lecture: In this week’s lecture, we focused on developing a research topic, going over a few important questions we should ask ourselves when deciding on a topic to conduct research into. These questions helped us think about … Continue reading
Week 10: Texturing My 3D Spider, Solving Problems When Assigning Materials, Final Renders & “To Bee” Game Playthrough
Introduction: In this week’s blog post, I’ll discuss the last few bits of changes I’ve made to my work before submitting it, starting with the approach I took when creating the textures for my 3D spider model. I’ll then be … Continue reading
Week 9: Fixing My Spider’s Animation & UV Map, Changes To “Press Start” Animation & Texturing My 3D Bird
Introduction: In this week’s blog post, I’ll be covering the topics we went over during this week’s lecture. As mentioned in last week’s blog post, I’ll then be going through how I fixed my 3D spider’s animation. Afterwards, I’ll be … Continue reading
Week 8: Learning Substance Painter, Fixing Bird’s Animation & UV Map
Introduction: In this week’s blog post, I’ll first be going through what we did during this week’s lecture, where we had to present one of the projects we’re currently working on for another module. I’ll then be talking about how … Continue reading
Week 7: Title Sequence Animation Changes & In-Game Credits Animation
Introduction: In this week’s blog post, I’ll first speak about this week’s lecture and what we went through. I’ll then discuss the group meeting we had this week, where we all caught up and checked what stage everybody was at, … Continue reading
Week 6: Rigging & Animating The 3D Spider
Introduction: In this week’s blog post, I’ll be going through this week’s lecture, where we got put into groups and had to discuss a question relating to our collaborative project. I’ll then be talking about the process I went through … Continue reading
Week 5: Title Sequence Animation Changes & Modelling Spider
Introduction: In this week’s blog post, I’ll be answering the questions we got given in this week’s lecture regarding our collaborative group project. My lecture gave these questions to us to help us explain our group project to others, allowing … Continue reading
Week 4: Finalised Bird Animation, Re-Designed Title Design & Title Sequence Animation Changes
Introduction: In this blog post, I’ll be talking about the research I did on how birds fly and how the wings move. This was my first object to complete in my previous blog post. I’ll also be talking about my … Continue reading
Week 3: Finalised Project Plan & Draft Animations
Introduction: In this blog post, I’ll be speaking about our group’s first official meeting in person and what we discussed, as well as my thoughts on how the meeting went. I’ll also be outlining the group member’s roles and their … Continue reading
Week 3: Experimental Animation 2 with Nigel
Introduction: In this week’s blog, I’ll be going through what we spoke about during this week’s lecture, which was a continuation of last week’s lecture where we were discussing experimental animations and looking at animations that were created over the … Continue reading