Category Production
Photography
Some ideas for my venture into photography, not sure where or how to start. There is so much information available, fantastic photographers so where do I start, the camera, the shot, technical information or get out there and have a go. Maybe a theme: getting from A to B such as stuck in traffic, walking, driving, […]
Virtual Reality
CG SOCIETY VR IS A FANTASTIC BEAST Framestore’s Andy Rowan-Robinson on building interaction and expanding narratives in virtual reality. The Evolution of VR Storytelling YOU GOT THIS: AN ANIMATOR-TURNED-VR CREATOR’S 5 TAKEAWAYS ON GIVING VIRTUAL REALITY A GO THE FOUNDRY Our new initiative to help you embrace VR Can you afford to miss the virtual […]
HDR Images
High Dynamic Range Images – HDRI HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) is a technology that expands the dynamic range of an image and shows details in both shadows and highlights. Dynamic Range is a range of brightness values that can be recorded on media (film, photographic plate, photographic paper) or on the matrix of a digital […]
Rigging
Rigging, the rigger builds the internal structure, the skeleton and creating controls the animator will use to bring the model to life by manipulating the three-dimensional object. It needs to be animator-friendly, efficient, robust and well- organised. It could be a character or a vehicle, firstly understanding what it is in reality, then considering how it needs to […]
Audio
Interview with Elaine Beckett: Working at Trackdown and creating sound for LEGO Batman, Gods of Egypt, The Railway Man and Happy Feet 2 What do you think music brings to a film? It is such an important part of a film because it is everything that isn’t said. It can lead, emote, it is a […]
Texturing
Resolution Gate indicates the outer edge of the render. UV texture space refers to a coordinate system that relates pixels of a texture map to positions on a surface. UV points represent the location of a polygon’s vertices within a UV texture space. If polygon faces overlap within the UV texture space, they share the […]
Modelling Process Diary
3D Modelling is based on the Cartesian coordinating system in three dimensions, a point in 3D space defined by width, height and depth. The zero point for each of these axes is the origin and the intersection of all three axes, providing the starting point for calculations and defining a point in 3D space or World Coordinates Position, (0,0,0). This defines the […]
Dynamics
Additional information and resources I have collected along the way are at the end of these assessment blogs. DYNAMICS 002 REPORT 2B: Schooner, Sail Boat Starting on this adventure, translating my sailing research into dynamics was not off to a good start. When moving the sail boat the pieces of the model were not staying […]
Programming
w3schools.com: The language for building web pages Women Who Code: Sydney and Meetup Sydney Python User Group (SyPy) Monthly Meetup MEL and PYTHON scripting my assessment and a collection of notes An interesting article in iiNet’s September 2015 eNewsletter: Should students learn how to code? PYTHON UV LAYOUT TOOL SCRIPT “””Script Name: […]
Rendering Process Diary
V-RAY WINS ACADEMY AWARD Vector-based or 3D software uses mathematical algorithms and geometric functions and rendering is the process of calculating this information, converting into raster images, to produce a 2D picture. The rendered picture is made up of pixels that create the image or movie file. The lights, shadows, colours, movement, placement of textures and […]
