Category: Year 1

Introduction of Unreal Engine and an overview of its User Inference

In this I will be discussing how I learned to use Unreal Engine to create an environment and the various challenges that I had overcome when creating my environment in Unreal also, I will be discussing how the environment that I have created fits with the theme that I and my group were given and…
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Making A Mug In Maya

Now, that I finished going over the basics of Maya I am now ready to create something using Maya to start off I am going to create a Mug the reason I chose to create a Mug is that it will be simple to create as this is my first time creating something in Maya…
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Introduction to 3D Asset Design (Brief Overview of Maya and its User Inference)

In this, I will be discussing how I learnt to use Maya to create various 3D models such as what tools I used to help me create models and what challenges I had to overcome when creating 3D models using Maya. Also, I will be discussing the research that I undertook to help me come…
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Anatomy for Character Designs

What is Anatomy? And why do we use it? Anatomy is the structure of any living things you are trying to draw such as animals, humans etc and I will be mainly focusing on the anatomy of humans as I will be using it to help me design a human character and you can use…
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Facial Expressions

Now, I am going to focus on facial expressions as this is also an important part of character design as you need to understand how the anatomy of the face works to understand how to convey expressions that can be used to show the emotions of a character. A way you could study this type…
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StoryBoards

What are Storyboards? and why do we use them Storyboards are a way for you to be able to plan out a scene and they will consist of illustrations that are displayed right next to each other, and this shows how the animators want the final animation to play out before actually going to animate…
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Animation In Photoshop

What is Animation? Animation is where you will make images appear as they are moving so it will create this effect/illusion of that object is moving when in reality it isn’t also animation originally would have been hand-drawn on cells nowadays animation is mainly done by doing it digitally using programs like Photoshop etc. The…
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One Point Perspective Drawings

What are One Point Perspective Drawings? And other types of perspectives One point perspective is where a drawing will show how things will look as they get further away from your view so as objects get further away from you, they will appear smaller as a result. For example, I could draw a hallway and…
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Photo Manipulation In Photoshop

What is Photo Manipulation? Photo Manipulation is where you take an existing image or photograph and edit that image to your liking like for example if I wanted to change the background of an existing image, I could do that by editing that image in Photoshop and so on anything you want to change about…
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Making Pixel Art

What is Pixel Art? Pixel art is a form of digital art that is made by drawing pixels in Photoshop or any other software that can be used for digital art and it’s done by drawing 1 pixel at a time and it’s based on what older games used to look like and this mainly…
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