Pacman Animation

Here's my first go at animating on Autodesk's Maya. I had lots of fun making these sequences. Part of my criteria was testing with acceleration, deceleration  weight and emotion which I think I managed to do. cant wait for my next animation project now.

Long Time no Posting

Hi everybody!

It's been a really long time since (like nearly a year I think :P). Anyway, to bring us up to speed of what happened since I last posted, I had an interview at the University of Glamorgan for a Computer Animation course. I was then offered a conditional place on the course as long as I passed my year on art foundation. Around that time I specialized in animation on the foundation course and soon after began my final major project. After the project was done (which was a lot of work) I exhibited my work and soon after received my results. I got a Merit!!! So I more than met the criteria to go on to Computer animation. Now I am about a month into the course and I love it. I have completed two projects so far and I am in the middle of a character design project at the moment. Below are some rendered images of my last project where I modeled a fruit bowl in Autodesk's Maya. The criteria for the project was to create a realistic image and an altered image which are both shown. This is my first try at a 3D package so I'm pleased with the outcome.
Anyway better be off but I hope to post a bit more regularly from now on (I say hopefully). Bye for now :)

Art work update

Hi guys!
Its been a very long time. I've been doing lots of 2 day projects on my course since I last updated. I am actually behind on work a bit as well making it hard to update :P anyway I just wanted to show some of the best of the work so far.

 This was one of the better photograms I have made.

 I made this model in 3D design. I made it with the dynamic and tension features in mind.

 These are floral study portraits I made.

 These are still life studies of a shoe I made.

 I made this Image of a shoe using a printing method.

 This was the final piece of my fine art project. I had to transform a book into a 3D piece of our choice. My piece was made of fairytale books so my piece represented a mermaid.

 This was part of my graphic design project. I had to make different fonts for one letter based on different adjectives.

 This was my photography project. I had to take photographs based on different words and phases. I also made photographs by manipulating paper and light.

 This was my 3D design project. the brief for this project was to make a 3D piece that that transforms when light is put to it and transforms light around it. So basically I made a lampshade.

 This was my fashion and textiles project. I had to make a garment out of plastics (such as carrier bags) that are manipulated by heat (using an iron). I made a bobble hat with a checkered pattern.

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This was my animation project. For this project I had to create my own character design, a model of this character made from paper and then a short clip of this character moving. My character was a creepy doctor crocodile. I really enjoyed making it.

I hope you like the work so far. I'm off to Venice next week to see the Venice Biennale. Very excited! I hope to see some very exciting work while I'm there. Again hopefully I will be updating the  more regularly now... but I wont hold my breathe :P

Bye till then :D

Art Pieces!!!

Hi finally got around post some work from the last week and a half. All these art pieces help develop my basic art skills (such as life drawing, use of mark making materials, using Adobe PhotoShop and other aspects). I'll try update my blog my frequently from now on. Enjoy :D