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Zack Scanlon
May 4, 20211 min read
Smoothing and Subdivision
Smoothing is an operation that you can perform on your mesh if the edges are too rough and make your object look too low poly. In this...
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Zack Scanlon
Apr 26, 20211 min read
Roto & Prep MaterClass with Connor Tong.
Roto allows you to bring back or hide certain parts of a shot. What is a Roto artist good at? Drawing skills to be able to follow the...
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Zack Scanlon
Apr 19, 20211 min read
Working from a brief from Bradley Crooks
Taking a brief check your under standing clarify where needed understand the right circumstances you can adjust the parameters of the...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 26, 20211 min read
Boxer Rotoscope shot.
For this task we were assigned a frame range to rotoscope and after we would combine all of our frames in Nuke. I was assigned frames 61...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 24, 20211 min read
Field trip to Mars
The goal of this project was to take students on a virtual trip to Mars so that they would be inspired to pursue careers in engineering...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Animation excises
This excise was my introduction to animating in photoshop but i do have an understanding of animation in general but just not doing it in...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Cell animation
Cell (Cel)- Short for Celluloid a combination of cellulose nitrate and camphor but was replaced by acetate in the second half of the 20th...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 4, 20211 min read
5 Principles in animation.
This scene in, Spider-man into the spider-verse you can see uses of all five principles that we have been asked to identify. First is...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 4, 20212 min read
12 Principles of animation
the illusion of life and was developed by 10 founders at Disney in 1981 talking about the principles from the 1930's. -Squash and stretch...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 3, 20211 min read
Sound visualisation in animation.
In this video 3D animation is used to visualise soundwaves over the course of the song. At the start of the song it begins with a line...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 3, 20211 min read
Squirrel animation
I started by importing my squirrel rig and an image plane that has bouncing reference as i find timing in animation difficult so this...
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Zack Scanlon
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Baking bad: a low to high workflow
For the first part of this project i took photos of my object to use as reference. I then took the images into photoshop and added some...
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Zack Scanlon
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Probability
Probability is how likely something to happen, probability comes in many forms like odds, percentage and likelihood. As long as it is...
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Zack Scanlon
Feb 11, 20212 min read
Animation week 1
Kinematics- The movement/motion of an object. Stop motion- Frame by frame movement of individual pieces to get an animation. Zoetrope-...
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Zack Scanlon
Feb 10, 20212 min read
Texturing my Screwdriver model.
To start with the texturing first did some clearing in Maya like renaming different parts of my mesh like the handle and the shank so i...
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Zack Scanlon
Feb 7, 20212 min read
Game review
challenge, play, premise, character, story The last of us the game is set in a post apocalyptic world where a mutated fungal virus that...
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Zack Scanlon
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Hexadecimal
When i was introduced to hexadecimal i recognised it as they way colours are displayed and navigated on things like colour wheels. Each...
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Zack Scanlon
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Compiling
Pre-processor Compiler Assembler Linker Pre-processor -It removes all the comments in your source file -includes the header file which is...
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Zack Scanlon
Jan 25, 20212 min read
Software development life cycle
Requirements and analysis Design Development Testing Deployment Maintenance R,D,I,T,D,M The software development cycle is the process...
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Zack Scanlon
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Binary
Binary is a numbering method that uses two values 0 and 1, true and false or in storage systems it low and high. In number systems the...
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