This week I was tasked with UV mapping an object and then unwrapping that object so firstly, I will be discussing what these mean so UV mapping is where there will be a flat representation of the 3D model I have made and with this, it will allow me to apply textures to any model…
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Creating a Material Now, I am going to discuss the process of making materials in Unreal and materials affect the look of the object when a material is placed on it so you can use a material to make an object in your scene look the way that you want it to. So firstly, to…
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Before I and my group decided to create anything relating to our themes, we needed to do some planning as we needed to know what we wanted to create for the environment piece and to help us plan we created a mood board and this would help us because it would allow us to collect…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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