4th Year

May 12, 20212 min read

the Finished film

Today I have completed my graduate film and I am incredibly pleased with how it has come together. I spent the last week editing,...

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May 7, 20211 min read

Week 17:

This week I have completed all the shots in the environments and now I just have the ending to complete. Below I have attached the scene...

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May 1, 20211 min read

week 16:

This week I focused on completing the animation for all the scenes in the forest and then refining them. I then put all the completed...

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Apr 24, 20211 min read

Week 15

This week I worked on completing the animation for the scenes in the forest. However, the animation process took longer than expected...

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Apr 17, 20211 min read

Week 14:

This week I started working on the forest scenes and creating the transition from the canyon to the forest. Initially I was going to...

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Apr 10, 20211 min read

Week 13:

This week I have completed all the canyon shots and rendered all the backgrounds from I need at this point from Maya. I have then edited...

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Apr 3, 20211 min read

Week 12:

This week I have worked on completing the transition between the room and the canyon landscape. To achieve this transition I simply took...

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Mar 28, 20211 min read

Week 11

This week I have been working on completing the beginning of my film up to the transition to the imagined environments. Below is the...

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Mar 21, 20211 min read

Week 10:

This week I returned to Photoshop to continue with completing the beginning of my film. Above is an example of how the beginning shots...

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Mar 14, 20212 min read

Week 9:

This week I managed to complete the first render of the final canyon shot using Maya and Renderman. It's similar to my first attempt for...

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Mar 7, 20211 min read

Week 8:

My original plan for this week was to complete the canyon seen in Maya however I ran into some technical issues and have booked some...

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Feb 28, 20211 min read

Week 7:

This week I worked on starting and completing the animation for one of the key camera shots in my film. I found it took me less time than...

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Feb 21, 20211 min read

Week 6:Formative Assessment

For the majority of last week I prepared for the formative assessment on Monday and started to accumulate the sections I had completely...

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Feb 13, 20211 min read

Week 5:

This week I focused on working in after effects and experimenting with depth of field. Before this I had a one-to-one with Mike, to help...

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Feb 6, 20211 min read

Week 4:

So far this week I have completed the first few shots of my film and I'm happy with how it is looking. I've never animated a fish before...

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Jan 29, 20211 min read

Week 3:

This week I started working on the start of my film where the audience are first introduced to the different objects in the room. I am...

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Jan 22, 20211 min read

Week 2:

This week I focused on animating one particular shot to help get me back into the swing of animating again. The shot I chose was when the...

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Jan 16, 20211 min read

Semester 2, Week 1:

To start the semester off, I first reacquainted myself with my animatic and started to set out the scenes I wanted to begin animating...

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Dec 4, 20201 min read

Week 11.2: Final Animatic

This is the final animatic which I refined as I progressed through its completion. The overall running time is around 3 minutes 30...

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Nov 30, 20202 min read

week 11: Model Sheets

I am uploading my finished model sheets for my characters as they have developed from the initial character designs I had done at the...

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Sam anderson

Designer & Animator