Graded Unit 2 Blog
This will be regularly updated talking about the progress in making my Graded Unit 2
Creating a storyboard for the animated narrative that I personally feel would be best, had a lot of fun creating the storyboard.
31/01/2019
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Beginning my research for the planning stage of my Graded Unit 2, I received feedback on my storyboard which was positive - Only minor changes and some good ideas to add.
01/02/2019
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Gained some information for my research on Barry Reynolds and Shane Prigmore for my Designers section.
04/02/2019
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Researching about Kazuo Oga for my designers.
05/02/2019
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Researching about Animations that follow the same brief.
06/02/2019
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Researching on Products and finding what I would personally prefer to research about.
07/02/2019
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Finding Writers that I can write about that I take inspiration from for my animation.
08/02/2019
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Looking at various Artists that would be good to write about.
11/02/2019
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Reading about different art movements that would be good for my Graded Unit.
12/02/2019
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Working on my Advance Character project, feeling bad that I am spending this time to do that.
13/02/2019
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Continuing my work on character project.
14/02/2019
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Re-writing about Barry Reynolds and Shane Prigmore to be more detailed.
15/02/2019
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Character project.
18/02/2019
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Character project.
19/02/2019
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At the museum so didn't spend much time for my Graded Unit but instead working on Character afterwards.
20/02/2019
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Updated information about Frida Kahlo
21/02/2019
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Peter Max and Ray Lichtenstein written up on Photoshop.
22/02/2019
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Pop art research furthered on to Photoshop.
25/02/2019
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Character Project.
26/02/2019
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Character Project.
27/02/2019
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Completed Art Movements.
28/02/2019
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Completed a mass of the Planning stage from my Treatment to my Gantt Chart as well as my choices and final decision for my narrative animation.
01/03/2019
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Researched and written up 4 x 3D Animation and did the same for 3 x 3 Products of my choice.
04/03/19
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Sorted everything together and created the front page for my book as well as the content page and sections to divide my research and handed it all in.
05/03/19
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Completed university application.
06/03/2019
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Planning out the second half of my Graded Unit 2 which is Project Development, starting off with designing my character.
07/03/19
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Designed some faces that may work and well as played around with the body shape I prefer and made sure that the arms and legs are proportioned correctly.
08/03/19
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Filming for video editing project.
11/03/2019
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Decided to try out the other heads on the body shape I decided to see if I would prefer to create any of them.
12/03/19
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Working on video editing.
13/03/19
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Writing up my research information for my character.
14/03/2019
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Creating the character sheet which will be used for modelling my character.
15/03/19
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Gathering and typing up Environmental research.
18/03/19
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Doing some sketches for environment ideas.
19/03/19
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Drawings of facial expressions for old man character.
20/03/19
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Researching and drawings for rabbit skull prop.
21/03/19
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Research and drawing for fake spotlight.
22/03/19
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Planning out background for the environment.
25/03/19
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Creating script for narrative.
26/03/19
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Was working on my Video Editing project.
27/03/19
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Continuing with creating my script.
28/03/19
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Research and drawing out magician hats.
29/03/19
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Beginning to adjust the Storyboard.
01/04/19
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Storyboard work continued.
02/04/19
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Creating a lighting map to plan out where certain lights go.
03/04/19
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Fixing environment sketches.
04/04/19
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Sorting out the files and organising everything.
05/04/19
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Beginning to model the environment in 3DS Max.
08/04/19
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Creating the curtains using a cloth modifier.
09/04/19
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Creating the chairs for the environment and positioning them.
10/04/19
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Creating the old broken table and the staging area.
11/04/19
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Creating the 3D props for the table such as the hoops, juggling balls and cards.
12/04/19
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Beginning to work on the animatic.
15/04/19
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Animatic complete although not proud of how it looks.
16/04/19
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Re-doing storyboard to improve it more.
17/04/19
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Continuing the storyboard and shading it.
18/04/19
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Working on block animation and getting the timing for certain movements.
19/04/19
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Re-doing animatic with block animation to aid.
22/04/19
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Continue shading storyboard and making sure everything aligns with the script properly.
23/04/19
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Working on risk assessment and some additional drawings to conclude presentation.
24/04/19
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Getting the presentation set up and ready and feeling nervous.
25/04/19
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Print out scripts and presented my work afterwards I worked on fixing the environment.
26/04/19
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Began the process of texturing my environment and adjusting the environment and objects.
29/04/19
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Re-modelling some objects that were low poly and making them more rounded and less sharp.
30/04/19
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Fixing the character sheet so that the front view is symmetrical.
01/05/19
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Creating the model as a low-poly first to properly focus on proportions.
02/05/19
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Using turbosmooth on the model and texturing it as well as adding some detail to the model such as his glasses, nose and moustache.
03/05/19
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Focusing on creating stuff for my Showreel.
06/05/19
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Continuing to do work for my showreel.
07/05/19
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Lighting the environment following my lighting scheme and prepping images for the book.
08/05/19
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Beginning to rig the character and adjusting the texture to get rid of any visible seams.
09/05/19
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Completing the skinning process and testing it with different walk and run cycles.
10/05/19
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Linework and colouring the Photoframes.
13/05/19
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Creating the poster and introduction frame for the animation.
14/05/19
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Continuing to do work for my Showreel, working on both the book and the video.
15/05/19
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Adjusting the textures in to the scene and making sure that everything is placed properly.
16/05/19
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Fixing the lighting and adding to it to make sure the scene is properly lit and looks good.
17/05/19
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Creating video for the showreel and so I was too focused to complete that on time.
20/05/19
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Completing and sticking in work for my showreel booklet.
21/05/19
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Beginning to animate scenes in the order of first and last going after each other.
22/05/19
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Continuing to animate my Graded Unit 2 and fix the website to keep it up to date.
23/05/19
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Still working on the animation and having a few scenes rendered too.
24/05/19
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Animation stage is still in progress although starting to burn out but still determined to finish the animation.
27/05/19
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Finished animating scenes as well as fixing some that looked off and adjusting lighting, feeling a bit relieved but still burned out.
28/05/19
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Beginning to edit the animation and work on the booklet so that it is ready to print but feeling anxious and hoping to finish everything soon.
29/05/19
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Adding more to the booklet and aiming to complete the editing stage for the animation.
30/05/19
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Submission day.
31/05/19
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