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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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 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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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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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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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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VFX REFERANCES This page contains reference examples of magic from various animes & these will help me create my own Visual effects for every module this year since I am planning on it being Magic heavy, I’ll keep this page updated with new references as the year progresses. OVERLORD https://mcfayden-2020.hulldesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Dragon-Lightning.mp4 (Overlord, 2015) https://mcfayden-2020.hulldesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FALLEN-DOWN.mp4 (Overlord, 2015)…
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For my Year 3 Animation, I will need two musical scores, one cinematic & one battle music both of these being composed in a large dramatic orchestral style, I am looking for someone to compose these pieces for me & to help that person I have included some examples of the type of thing I…
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