JACK'S BLOG

Modelling Plan Now that I had decided to sculpt the man, I worked the best way for me to approach modelling a realistic character, which...

For this assignment we were tasked with sculpting either a bust of ourselves or of an original character in either Zbrush or Mudbox. I...

Texturing models After Aaron, Matt and Piers had retopoloized, rigged and uv unwrapped the models for the man, boy and dog, I was tasked...

Animation Now that we had our animatic sorted out it was time to finalise and clean up the animation in Photoshop. When animating the 2D...

Here is a summary of the areas of our film that we will explore and how we've used them in our film. Accompanying them are the rough...

Character Design Our Storyboards and progress up to this point as a group can be found in the Presentation linked below:...

Research In order to make sure our film wasn’t disrespecting any suffers of PTSD, I did some research for our group into the topic....

For this assignment we were tasked with creating a group and creating a 30 second animated short film that explore the theme Big and...

Animation Studies 1 - Walk Cycle Animation Studies 2 - Run Cycle Animation Studies 3 - Jump Cycle Animation Studies 4 -Sneak Cycle

For this animation I wanted to continue with the same complexity as the jump cycle, directing my focus toward maintaining realism in the...

For this Animation I wanted to make a jump cycle, I felt that this would push me creatively and the positioning and key framing is...

For the run cycle I looked at motion in real life, and how running looks and moves in reality, to see how if it could help me create more...

For my first attempt at animating a walk cycle I wanted to give the impression of a lively, happy character. Beneath is a brief sketch...

Rendering the Sword After successfully modeling the gem, I experimented with Arnold's ai-standard surface. I found through another...