Category: 3.2 Week 2

Introduction

This week we had to share our ideas for the animations we would like to develop in the future. We were also asked to start thinking which set props we would need to create for our animations.

Presenting Our Ideas

Idea 1: Skullchaser

I would like to develop a short animated episode that contains running, jumping and shooting sequences.

I have already downloaded the Skullchaser rig, that includes different types of guns.

In the following days, I will try to come up with a story for my character.

Idea 2: Mental Health

I would like to create an animation that revolves around the topic of mental health.

I want to focus specifically on visually portraying anxiety symptoms. In this sense, the audience will experience them through different colors, characters and camera positions.

Idea 3: Artificial Intelligence

I would like to create an animation that tells the story of how artificial intelligence has already surpassed human civilization.

In order to achieve that, I will contrast the way robots and humans behave in the near future.

Introduction

This week we had our first session with Nick and he gave us an overview on our brief. By the end of this term we are expected to design, model and animate a mechanical arm.

Mechanical Arm – Modelling

In order to start modelling the mechanical arm, we first started with our fingers by creating polygon primitives. We learned how to insert edge loops and extrude faces to modify the shape of the fingers.

Distal Phalange

Middle Phalange

Proximal Phalange

Mechanical Arm – Animation

When it comes to the animation of our fingers, first we had to set up the hierarchy of the fingerparts (Distal Phalange > Middle Phalange > Proximal Phalange). Then, we rotated the Z axis of each finger and placed them to form the shape of a hand.