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Category: Year 3, Term 1 -Suspended-

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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Story, Storyboard & Animatic

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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Year 3 Planning & schedule

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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Planning

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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Character Overview

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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Story Asset List

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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Revised Storyboard

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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Story & Storyboard

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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