Introduction This lesson was about creating landscapes using height maps in unreal engine. a height map in unreal engine uses greyscale images to assign a height value to black or white. This means that you can use a height map to create real world terrain in unreal engine by using a black and white image […]
Category: B2 Skills & Production
Rotoscoping in After Effects
rotoscoping/rotoscope/roto is the process of tracing objects in a section of footage in order to remove or edit them from the video in some way. It can be used for isolating objects in the foreground of a shot from the background of the shot, or other similar editing techniques involving depth of field and layers. […]
Maya Animation – 3D Character Rigs
Introduction In this lesson, I animated a character rig of the Luxo Jr character from Pixar studios’ famous title animation. In the past few lessons, I learned about animating along a curved path, animating a helicopter rig and using set driven keys to animate. Luxo Jr. The next task was to research Luxo Jr, the […]
Maya – Introduction to Blend Shapes
Introduction In this lesson, I was introduced to blend shapes in Maya, and was able to use them to practise 3D animation. To recap previous sessions, the class has looked at animating along a path, using a rig to animate in 3D and applying it along a path, as well as animating using set driven […]
Creating an Animated Logo in After Effects 2
Introduction This was the second lesson about creating an animated logo in after effects. In the previous lesson, I found some animated logos which I liked, before I designed some logo concepts. In this lesson, I started animating the logo.
Creating an Animated Logo in After Effects 1
Introduction In this lesson, I started the process of creating an animated logo in after effects to be used as branding for myself. Research To start, I looked at a selection of animated logos on Dribbble.com and chose a few that I liked. Here are those: Designing my own Next, I begun the process of […]
Maya Animation – Set Driven Keys
Introduction This lesson was about exploring set driven keys in Maya. A set driven key is used to link objects in maya, so that one objects attributes are influenced by another object’s attributes. They are used within the Set Driven Key window. Research Task The next task was to research set driven keys. Here is […]
Animation – Animated Portraits.
Introduction This was the starter task – to draw a self-portrait with one line. Animated Portraits The next task was to animate a portrait. It could a portrait of yourself, or a famous person and it would be animated in photoshop, animate or after effects. I wasn’t able to render the video before the end […]
Introduction to Rigs in 3D
Introduction In today’s lesson I practised animation using a model of a helicopter, using motion paths and rigs. A rig is like the ‘skeleton’ of an object that will be animated – like the wire armature inside of a puppet. It allows the model to be articulated. A character rig consists of a skeleton and […]
Grandfather Clock Challenge 2
Introduction This session was dedicated to finishing the Piano & Clock challenge which was started a few weeks ago. At the end of the previous session, I was beginning to apply textures to my grandfather clock model after completing it. In today’s session, I couldn’t find my Maya project file from the end of the […]