Introduction A showreel is a short video which showcases work from a filmmaker, VFX artist, animator, 3D modeller or another similarly creative individual. Creating showreels is not only a requirement for this term’s brief, it is also an important thing for people with a career in a creative industry to do – showreels are often […]
Category: B2 – FMP
My Digital Style and Branding
Introduction This blog post explains my digital style and branding that I have created for the B1 Progression brief on this course. This blog post shows how I researched branding style sheets before I created my own: https://media.confetti.ac.uk/alexander-xs21-yr2/2023/03/22/branding-style-sheet/ In short, branding style sheets are guidelines for how a company’s logo is used in different contexts. […]
Website Progress and Reflection (Personal Development)
Introduction Recently in sessions, I’ve been working on creating my website that I can put my portfolio onto. As of writing this blog post, I’ve nearly finished – I have one webpage to finish (the portfolio page) before uploading the site to a hosting service, and then once it’s uploaded I’ll be checking to make […]
How to chroma key in After Effects
Introduction This is a tutorial on how to key-out a greenscreen video in Adobe After Effects using a technique called chroma keying. Chroma keying is where you remove a specific colour from the background of a video – this is usually green but can also be blue or pink or any colour really. Chroma Keying […]
My Next Steps Presentation
Introduction This blog post includes the slideshow I made for the Next Steps Presentation as part of the B1 Brief. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Tq5vjHsY1TpSfK66SXEbiaETt0E_lBC6o9OVSVhkFQo/edit?usp=sharing Reflection Over all, I think my presentation went okay. I think I could have spoken a bit louder and slower, but all the information included in the presentation was accurate and thorough. I received […]
B2 CMP Production Hand-In
Introduction This blog post is my completed production work for the B2 Creative Media Project brief. For this brief, I created a 2D animation with a Sci-Fi theme which I titled “Space Adventure!”. The Animation Here is the animation, uploaded to YouTube and embedded:
Production Post Mortem
Introduction This blog post is the Post Mortem analysis for the work I have completed producing my 2D animated short for the B2 Creative Media Project brief. What Went Well? One thing that went well about my project is that I believe I have achieved one of the targets I set for myself earlier in […]
Dynamic Simulations in Maya
Introduction In this lesson, we used nCloth to create simulations of cloth tearing and ripping. Creating the Ncloth Simulation In Maya I created a polyplane which would eventually be turned into the nCloth, and scaled and rotated it into a position I wanted. I then scaled a cube to create a post at one end […]
Production Update – 27/01/2023
This blog post is about how my work on my project for the B2 Creative Project is going. So far, at the end of January, I am a few weeks into term 2 and have been working on the production of my project. By the end of the first term, I had done all of […]
Quad Draw Tool – Maya
Introduction In this lesson, we will be creating a mesh using the quad draw tool that conforms and has clean and evenly spaced topology. What Does the Quad Draw Tool do? The Quad Draw tool is used for manually creating low poly meshes that are easy to deform and and cut out from the rest […]