Project Blogs

These are blogs I created to keep track of various projects I have worked or continue to work on.

Cel-Shading & Grease Pencil: This blog is a record of me looking into creating an environment in Blender, using the grease pencil and toon shader, as part of my Masters.

MSC Final Semester Project: This blog keeps record of my final project, "Rocket Bear", for my Masters research question, where I was looking into "How do you express a character's thoughts and/or emotion purely through body language?"

Week 12

I have gathered the results from the questionnaire, for the presentation and presented the data on graphs. Based on the results, I would...

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Week 11

This is the week before the Beta presentation (final presentation) to show off my artifact and research. The plan for the questionnaire...

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Week 10

This week I started to rig Niamh, I didn't rig the full character since I knew I couldn't get the whole piece animated, I could still use...

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Week 09

After presenting my progress so far to the lecturers, I got positive feedback on my work. Being reassured I'm headed in the right...

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Week 08

Alpha presentation is coming up, so the characters were imported into the scene file and I started to animate them. I only had a few...

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Week 07

I finished working on the rigging for Flint and the rigging for the bear, seeing that they are the key characters ion the animation I...

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Week 06

This week, I ran by my research question with my lecturers, and them seemed very encouraging for me to go down this route for my...

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Week 05

With my WiP presentation complete, I received feedback that the question was still a little too vague. The idea of researching what makes...

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Week 04

Following on from the previous week, I continued to create 3D character models for the artifact, creating the Niamh and the Clockwork...

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Week 03

After my Proposal Presentation, the feedback from lecturers was to think more about my research question. Noting it wasn't structure...

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Week 02: Characters Assemble

My electricity did come back on Wednesday evening, so I was able to get started on making the characters by modelling them in Blender. I...

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Week 01: The Start to the End

The first week started off with us being introduced to all of the mentors and given an idea to what was to be expected of us during the...

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