Hello☆
I’m Alicia. I was invited by Ms Faridah who was my Effective Internet Research lecturer, to write a guest post. So, this will be my first time blogging here (:Being an IMI student, we have 3 majors to select from. As for me, I have chosen 3D Animation. So far, I had attended 3DVA (3D Visualisation and Animation) and 3DPF (3D Production Foundation). Creating 3D animation isn’t as easy as it seems. As you advance, you will realize that there are quite a lot of things to take note of. However, the process has been fun and interesting.
For 3DVA, we started out by sketching and modeling a character. Afterwards, we practiced movements (animating them). For example, bouncing ball (stretched and squashed) and how the pendulum move and swing (overlapping). For our final project, we did a full walk cycle which is whole body movement. We need to portray the characteristic through the walk cycle.
For 3DPF, we modeled out props and also did facial expression. We started to “act out” using a character (which is actually holgan, a robot character). For our final project, we did a short 11 seconds animation based on a sound clip. Here, we must lip sync for the character and also include suitable movements and appropriate props for the animation. This project enhanced our creativity and imagination as we created our own props and setting here.
Here are some of the images of what I had done for 3DPF.
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| Guitar prop for Holgan |
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| Microphone prop for Holgan |
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| Different face expressions of Holgan |
My closing words to our freshies and junior, put in all efforts in doing your assignment.
When it’s done nicely, you will have a sense of satisfaction (:
