After discussing essay topics in class, I’ve decided to take a philosophical approach. I want to create something with a significant thematic depth, not anything superficial or generic. This prompted me to begin compiling a list of potential questions, notes, and musings. An obvious selection could be Baudrillard’s Simulacra and its relation to simulations and …
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Dream Holiday destination – Final Outcome
These are the models I made: Maya paint effects I used: Lighting went fine – I didn’t want to add too many lights so I could have a quicker render. But when it came to seeing up I camera I struggled. My situation was made worse when Maya kept crashing due to my scene being …
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Dream Holiday destination – Process
To make my terrain I got plane and made the surface bumpy and uneven with the transform tool. To make the water I got another plane and applied the ocean shader. I then found an image to use as the terrain’s texture, I gave it a pink tone to emphasis its otherworldliness. Much like my …
Dream holiday destination – Planning
The planning process went smoothly. At first I took the brief of a perfect holiday destination too literally, I was brainstorming places I’d like to visit such as forests and gardens. However on second thought I realised how restricting this was, it meant I had to come up with a realistic place and not take …
Virtual reality music video – Final thoughts
Overall I am quite happy with the outcome of my scene. Although there are some lingering issues. When I built and viewed my project in VR for the first time, the first scene at the tube station has a lot of flickering in some areas of the building. The one common traits amongst the flickering …
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Virtual reality music video – Process
I firstly added a tube tunnel to my scene, added lights, then multiplied the both the tunnel and lights separate times to create one long tunnel. I then added waypoints and a mouth to go at the end of the tunnel. Then I added the bedroom at the end, and the buildings and terrain as …
Virtual Reality Music Video – Ideas
I Chose the song ‘Headz gone West’ by Nia Archives. The lyrics are short and succinct yet paint a great picture of a restless headspace. I wanted to embrace that with my music video. Link to Padlet: https://padlet.com/clarachilderley/9yrbet23snqb37b I will start the process by finding the assets I’ll need. At first I had the idea …
3D models
Low poly involves using a low number of polygons in a 3D model. They are used primarily for their fast render speed.
Elements of animation
Follow through and overlapping The action of Follow Through and Overlapping refers to two closely related techniques which help to ensure movement has realism to it, and to make sure it seems as if the objects and characters abide by the laws of physics, including the principle of inertia. Follow Through is the idea that …
An animated journey
Georges Melie was well known for his use of special effects, he popularised techniques such as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, and hand painted colour on screens. His most notable work would be Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A trip to the moon) from 1902. It is considered the first film with visual effects, audience members were astonished …