Term 2 Week 10

The last week finally came and during the last lessons I chosse to stay on wednesday aswell to complete my animation with its camera movement completed and the render stage finished aswwell.

I have completed my animation finally, after two terms of hard work of learning the basics and perfecting them to the way that I want them to be. I can safely say I learnt a great deal about the world of animation and its applications. It was a challenge, but a fun challenge nevertheless.
I am proud of my animation and all that it is, its what i expected it to be and it couldnt have been done without help from Sir and the helpfull tutorials 3DS Maz gave me.

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Term 2 Week 9

During last week and the weekend I worked exceptionaly hard to complete the three last things i need to complete my animation.
I found my texture for my terrain and picture for my background during the beginning of the week.

At that time I also managed to start the special effects during the weekend and finalise it by this week. Sir showed me how to create the explosion and fire and luckily just in the nick of time.

Now finishing the effects and starting and finishing the camera movement would be the final challenge in my way to animation success.

Term 2 Week 9

Finally after a long wait my characters movement was complete and now i could move onto the final points of my animation, the background, the terrain and special effects.

I promised myself that i would finish finding a background and texture for my terrain by next week.

Term 2 Week 8

This week I showed my progress to Sir and asked for his opinion on how it was looking and what improvements i should make. Sir gave me feedback and I Continued to finalise my project, but there were some small issues still standing out that had to be corrected.

Term 2 Week 7

As the deadline drawed even closer I managed to download the trial for 3DS Max onto my laptop at home, in order for me to get some animation done at home aswell rather than just waste time.

At this present time I deleted my old character movement and begain a simpler way to complete my animation. the character would simply look around then power-up with very exaggerated movement untill finally creating a fireball explosion in his hands and revealing my production title

Term 2 Week 6

After the easter holidays, I had to begin to make hard decisions, the main issue was my characters movement was still incomplete, so I had the thought of making it easier by reducing hes movement but then realising I would be changing my initial Idea, this unfortunately had to be done and I stand by my decision being right and well timed.

Term 2 Week 5

No Lessons due to Easter Holidays

Term 2 Week 4

Now at this current stage I possibly had a looming worry over my head, the movement of the character was still not completed, but i contemplated in my mind that maybe making it a bit more simpler would allow me to concentrate more and get me the result I wanted.

All the techniques I had learned were all being used at this crucial stage, box modeling, extrusion modeling and utilising common primitives were among the most important of techniques that were rquired for my animation to be a success.

hopefully by next week i would have solved the problem of my characters movement and be able to start camera movement and special effects.

Term 2 Week 3

Unfortunately at this time sir was away from lesson and I continued to press on with my work.

I have got very far from my last lesson but still determined to complete my objective of movement and character facial creation. other points that requires my attention are background and textures of what the viewer will see and if it looks realistic in the sense of the animation world. Next week I wish to have completed the movement, the visual look of the character and started to think about background and what kind of textures i will use.

Term 2 Week 2

As the weeks continued, at this point I managed to create my character and add small movement aswell, (walking and moving arms and legs) I started to get the hang of things but still needed assistance now and again.

New techniques learned:-
. how to succesfully use edit mesh, edit smooth and boolean.
Each one of these are essential in creating a working animation and are proven to be essential to me esspecialy for creating a character required to have these animation techniques.

Term 2 Week 1

During the half term I managed to complete my plannning and reaserch into looking at tutorials to help me make my character move in the sense of realism.

At the end of this week I would have completed my characters appearance and added colour to him to add more effectiveness and the image of animation.

Term 1 Week 8

At this point in time I have almost created my characters image and started to add facial features and other realistic elemants of his character type.

I also must remember to reaserch some more on animations that have already been done to give me an idea of how to move my character once hes been created.

Term 1 Week 7

As I discussed with my teacher about my new project, I have been using these current lessons to plan and draw out my ideas onto paper first so i know exactely what i want and at what time.

I would imagine this would continue untill next week untill i start creating my character on screen and beginning to create the basic elements of his body.

Term 1 Week 6

During this lesson I decided to start my backup Idea of 'DBZ character Gohan' and proceed with my ideas of how i visually saw it in my mind.

The character would walk, then begin to run and finally leap off the ground and emit a fireball from his hands.

This would prove to be a tough challenge but with the techniques that i have already learnt and the techniques still to be, I am sure I will suceed in my working animation.