January 11th-17th 2021
This week we were given a new project. We have just under 2 months to create a channel ident or advertisement. I immediately new what I was going to do so spent the week storyboarding, concepting and finding textures. This week the college also sent out my university applications!
January 18th-22nd 2021
This week I had one university come back to me so spent the beginning of the week created a virtual portfolio and scanning in all my pieces to then be able to send them off. I added the photos into a small demo reel and sent them off to my first university. I spent the rest of the week creating the vending machine which will play the main role in my ident.
January 25th-29th 2021
This week I created the basic set for my piece and textured most of it and finished editing my portfolios. This week I also learnt how to make things glow and emit light aswell as shine and become metals. This, I think made my project look a lot more realistic. I also exported and rendered the opening shots of my project which are cinematic camera shots.
February 1st- 5th 2021
This week I found a free character rig of Mikey from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I decided I would use him as my character. I spent the week animating him, the rig wasn't great so I had a fair bit of trouble and the textures started playing up. In the end I managed to get the choice scene, falling scene and end scene all rendered which took so long to do. I hate working on a surface pro and need my laptop back asap...
February 8th-12th 2021
Everything decided to break this week... nothing worked and Maya decided to corrupt all my files so I couldn't actually continue with my project, I had to work with what was already exported...
February 15th-19th- HALF TERM
This week was hectic... I had to decide to scrap the ident and change it to an advert to better suit what I had already exported. This meant I spent a few days trying to edit together my final piece and came to my final conclusion. The video turned out great and I got the wonderful Louis Doran to voice my project for me. This week was also spent creating my ArtStation account as I had a Uni interview on the Friday.
February 22nd-26th 2021
This week is release week. On Monday I released my project to the world and started gathering feedback from friends and family. The week mostly consisted of website work as well as waiting to hear from universities.