Tia Whitehead - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts

In this lesson we continued modeling and texturing our fruit. We were told by Simon to select a still life image and then try to replicate it. I chose the still life image below. I struggled to replicate the grapes with textures so I decided to draw them into the image using Photoshop. Still life reference image My model

When I started this project I had two different ideas from which I was thinking about creating an animation. One was about my Type One Diabetes and how I came to find that I have it, and the other was living with my sister who has ADHD. At first I was indecisive over which I would prefer to choose but I believed creating an animation about my diabetes and my experiences of having it was more suitable as it was more personal to me. When the project began I spent a lot of time coming up with the original concept for it, which was having me as a character and going through the different stages of my life with diabetes. I found it hard at first to not be too literal when creating a step by step plan of what to include, but with some help, I came up with my final idea which I believe is a much more successful and interesting version.  When it came to designing characters we had gone down from the original character number being 2 or 3, to being 1. This character is the pe...

While modelling I have encountered some issues with the Skull Cap. While trying to create the Skull Cap, the planes are glitching. I'm not quite sure where I am going wrong as I have been following the tutorials step by step.

 

I have experimented by looking at how different eyes would look on my character after feedback from Alan. I have created this by drawing over the orthographic designs on Photoshop. 1.  2.   3. 4.   5.

After realising that some of the shots in the animatic are too long, and after receiving feedback about it, I have reduced some of the shots in the animatic. I believe that having done this has helped the animatic.