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 […]

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:

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Introduction This lesson was an introduction to creating shatter simulations using ncloth in Maya. Shatter simulations are computer simulations of things that shatter – such as glass, brittle plastic, buildings being demolished or other such materials. Creating a first shatter simulation task The first task of the lesson was to follow the tutor’s instruction to […]

Introduction This lesson was an introduction to the software Adobe Substance 3D Painter. It started being developed by Allegorithmic and was then recently bought by Adobe. Substance Painter allows the user to paint 3D textures, shaders and effects onto 3D models, like painting in photoshop except onto a 3D model. Models can be imported from […]

Introduction This lesson focuses on using matte painting to create a composition in after effects. Matte painting in VFX is the technique of creating a photorealistic image of an environment that wouldn’t have been possible to capture otherwise. These fictional environments are created using a mixture of photo editing and digital painting techniques. Elements of […]