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Evaluation

For the animation, the first step was to trial and create a character. As well as trialing them with and in shapes. I drew inspiration from attack on titan characters for one of them, with the idea of having it break out of a glass cube, and also had the idea of him rolling around in a sphere as if he's spinning it form the inside. The design is very biomechanic

My other idea was doing a guy who would drive a car around a circle like a hamster wheel, I took some inspiration gta vice city, giving him a sleazy suit

This is me doing the front and back perspectives of the character. I only managed the front and the back, and I found that I need to practice back perspectives on characters more.

Just a sketch of the character I did digitally, making some changes and also using it as an excuse to practice drawing folded arms.

This was the silhouette I used to draw my character over, trying to fit them nicely into the ball and make it look right. I found that I was unable to fit the hands well, so I made the character press it's forearms on the edge instead.

This was the character I drew in the sphere, cutting down on details to focus on the motion of it spinning in the ball. Features I also cut down on were were it's hair, and other muscle groups. With the idea I had in mind for it's motion, the more details I added, the harder it would've been to blur all the features.

This is the first frame of motion, using another layer of the same character to overlap, a technique found in animation all over, when there's a fast motion, one of the transition phases will sometimes include a distorted or modified version of the previous frame within the new one, depending on the type of movement and speed that it's trying to convey.

When the ball is moving fast, I added more lines and also distorted the character by making two close together, then added some white speed marks on the left, to make it look like it was heading right fast.

All in all I think I successfully created a sense of momentum within the ball.

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Yayoi kusama

Yayoi kusama is a 94 year old japanese contemporary artist who suffers from schizophrenia and sees everything in spheres and shapes

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This is the first frame of motion, using another layer of the same character to overlap, a technique found in animation all over, when there's a fast motion, one of the transition phases will sometimes include a distorted or modified version of the previous frame within the new one, depending on the type of movement and speed that it's trying to convey.

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Terrariums

Terrariums are small eco systems of plants and sometimes insects, kept within a glass bowl

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Drawing over foliage and landmarks in preparation for creating foliage

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Starting off with a this flat disk at 500 radius, using the sculpting tool to shape and pull terrain into it

Once the terrain was made, I retopoligize in order to have the mesh spread more evenlym triangulating it, hardening the edge before reducing it for the low poly look

For colouring, I assigned new material and selected the area to colour them. For the water I made another disk at the same radius, coloured it and made it transparent. I had a lot of issues with colouring and using the software to my intended purposes.

To add trees, I made two tree models, one big one from a previous session, and another small one to cover the landscape. These trees were then implemented through mash, able to import and create variations of the assets. It's great for placing the same model with variety, able to set a threshold for size and tilt so each placement is different.

Finally, I just made a sphere, selected half of it and made it transparent with blinn (for shine), tinting it a very light blue to give the look of glass.

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Kit bashing

Been destroying computer motherboards and fan coolers in order to find parts to help create a robotic frame for the sewed projects.

This will likely be an eye

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The Severence

Was an interesting show and compelling mystery

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Second Heart

For the second heart I was going for a more complicated design and I would be doing a blanket stitch. I drew the shape on card and cut out a template to draw over as both sides would need to be evenly matched for it to work. Once both were cut out I then made sure they were evenly matched and trimmed before making a hidden set in between the layers.

The blanket stitch was relatively easy as long as I was going slowly, with the added step of having to loop the thread before you pulled, again it was a bit messy in places but it kept improving as I carried on. I also like the look of black thread on red heart.

All that was left was just to stuff it, shoving the stuffing in with a wooden stick, before sewing it up and struggling with the exit.

Glued some wires and a battery piece to make it look more robotic

Working on the robot frame, we decided on covering it in string instead

Trialling things to cover the robot frame with, deciding on string

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Sewing

This heart was the test run, I cut two pieces out and left a fingers worth of space around the guide lines, as I was doing a running stitch. This was my first time sewing in years so I wanted to do a simpler heart design first just to see how I got on.

The pins held both pieces of fabric together and allowed me to trace the guideline better, my stitch was a bit messy in places but I picked it up as I went along.

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Worksheet for the animation

Will probably be simplified further

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Old Runescape

The first place my mind goes to when I think of low poly environments is old school runescape

It's an old game that has stood the test of time, and a lot of that is due to the charm that comes with a game like this.

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I just started with drawing white lines over the black shape and it got away from me, in my defence, josh had some creepy music playing at the time

This was the template

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Making personalised tetris blocks. Everyone made their own share and printed and cut them out in order to create a stop motion animation of a tetris game.

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tree

This is a significant tree from the show attack on titan, it's unique design makes it a good one to practice making into a 3d model

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3D assets and marketplace

3D assets can be found for free on

Art station is a god place for both artwork and assets, from professional and aspiring artists.

Mixamo is a free market place for 3D animations.

Daena.me is good for pixel art pokemon

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Pokeball

Making a Pokeball in Maya proved to be easier than expected, Maya isn't a very beginner friendly program, but with the help of a guide it was easier to navigate. I'm more comfortable with how to work with maya in perparation for making the low poly landscape.