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Author: mcfayden2020

Furniture Assets

A long time ago I tried my hand at a 1:1 scale project in which I made a bunch of furniture while Modeling My room at the time, However, I never finished this project since the soul was sucked out of me while trying to model some lego spaceships. Regardless of that making furniture was…
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Turing The Plastic Safe Into A Game Asset – Unfinished

Plastic Safe – Old The plastic safe was an old project and Was one of my proudest ones when I was stating out but looking at it years later it’s very… Amateur, So I  have decided to fix this by making it more professional and the best way is to just turn it into a…
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Warp Gate – Unfinished

The Warp Gate This is a project that I was working on but never finished like a lot of the projects I start, not because I don’t or wont finish them but more because other projects have more promise sometimes and those take priority. however, it serves as good tests of my skills and this…
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Magic Fight VFX Final Video

Blender tutorial – freezing effect W/ Geometry Nodes (2022) YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxeKovEzWhg&list=PLXlh_ksbTjFDJmL_jP5suiTLM8OmZVI26&index=10&t=1117s (Accessed: January 19, 2023). Create easy hexagon grids in Blender 3.0 Geometrynodes! (2022) YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0HAw0EJMUs&list=PLXlh_ksbTjFDJmL_jP5suiTLM8OmZVI26&index=16 (Accessed: January 19, 2023). Effectors and guides | blender mantaflow part 6 (2020) YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLwdEQvJ0-I (Accessed: January 19, 2023). lotsalote…
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Spell Circles Progress

Test Circle Before creating a whole host of spell circles I needed to quickly test how to make the circles glow & change colour inside blender, so I whipped up a simple circle inside photoshop and tested it inside blender as you can see I managed to turn it blue and glow even if its…
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VFX Testing, Progress & Assets

Assets I Will Need For VFX I will need a bunch of assets to make the animation two of which have already been talked about in the story, storyboard & animatic WordPress post those two assets are the characters I will be using from Mixamo the rest of the assets will be created by me…
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Final Story Draft & Storyboards

Change In Direction Originally I wanted to do a comparison-style animation which would involve myself In High school & myself now in university, however, since writing the screenplay for my university animation featured in this post, it became clear to me that I wanted to focus solely on this animation rather than splitting my time,…
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Research & Extra Information

High school Year 8 Animation Year 8 Projects I was advised to look into other Year 8 projects starting with animation and what I found was nothing to do with the specific year so I had to diversify into just high school animation projects, I didn’t happen to find much apart from a short animation…
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Motion Capture, Addons & Sound Packs

Motion Capture A full-fledged motion capture rig costs anywhere from 5k to 100k making it way outside my price range, however, I plan on getting a motion capture system for under £200, This cheap and dirty motion capture system will consist of 1-3 Xbox Kinects the more I have the more accurate the animation will…
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Useful Sounds For My Animations

Both of my animations will need sound effects to bring out harmony between the visuals and the audio, to that end I will be looking on freesound.org (Freesound 2022) for some of the sounds that could possibly be helpful and I will explain why. I plan to make some of my own sound effects & thanks…
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