Story & Script I created a story based on my initial idea where two characters fight to the death streetfighter style I named them both in the script, So I knew one of them needs to win & this would make it clear as to which one does what, These characters are named steve who…
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University Year 3 Animation Characters Once I decided on the classes that I wanted to use for the 3 characters I used DnD character sheets to create the basics of what my characters will be, This site DnD Beyond (Staff, D&D beyond 2022) is where I can easily create the character sheets without too much…
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University Year 3 Animation I have decided that I will need 3 characters in total, not including monster characters, These three will be my adventurers which means I will need to make some brief backstory for each one, as well as appearances & colour palettes before I make & sculpt them in Z-brush. The reason…
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At the start of year 3 we were asked to pick a supervisor & one of their proposed projects for our end-of-year module & the one that fit the direction I wanted to go in specialises in audio which I will use a lot in this module, alongside this module we were handed two additional…
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I didn’t start planning what I’m going to do each week till around week 3 and during that week I listed everything I needed to do on Trello and started hammering out each one of them, For DST (Digital Storytelling) I made my story and started the storyboard this week. Week 4 was hard for…
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In my story, I will have 4 Key Characters that will be the center of attention for the entire animation these include: Martha the wife of the dead commander Nicholas The dead commander O’neill The commander who employed the necromancer Agathor The necromancer Martha (Mixamo, 2022) Martha 35 years old 2nd wife of Nicholas she…
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I need a list of assets for my story and since I will be focusing on animation and asset creation I won’t have time to make my own characters however I will be making most of my own assets for the animation and any I don’t will be fully referenced since I can use found…
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After I took the previous storyboard to my tutor and got some feedback, it apparently needed to be revised as the story drew too much from an extended universe rather than being self-contained, which seemed to be the main problem so I aim to fix it with a revised storyboard. To self-contain the overall story…
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So my decision to create a fantasy story animation about a necromancer who is viewed as evil, only because of the type of magic he uses rather than being evil himself This is the key part of the story and I must get the point across when making the animation. To achieve a good understanding…
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For my 2023 animation, I know that I would like to create a battle sequence however since I only have seven minutes of screentime, I can’t make the battle too long or it won’t have any story, at the same time I don’t want to just create seven minutes of dialogue as that would create…
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