Vimeo, Year 3

Location Scouting

Today was a good day for finding the perfect location, weather was perfect and the light was easy. We found one of our locations from our main actor, for the bath tub scenes in our film. While the other is found not to far from omaha beach for the high and low cliff scenes. It all seems to be getting traction on the film now which is a good sign since we have a lot to do in a short period of time.

Also a second thought was put onto the sounds of the film, since we have some talented musicians in our team it looks like raw footage and our own compositions will be our key.

Creative Principles and Practice, Year 3

2011 Newspaper Competition

We are either to choose to advertise politics or gaming with news papers as our focus to design, yet still effective enough to be use as multimedia campaign.

Sold on APN is a great resource for this project.

Animation and 3D Modeling, Year 3

Common Ground

Lessons learned through my research into 3D environments and 3D modeling and the common factors has been eye opening for me although it should have just been obvious. Using shaders, nodes and editors is where the real knowledge should have more emphasis. Why? Because they are the bread and butter of the industry. If you dont have a strong knowledge into these things then what ever it is you are trying to create is not going to be up to scratch and unrealistc.

Basically it is best to have a in-depth knowlegde into these things work. Otherwise your work will always be second rate. But what I have discovered is that having a great knowledge of just one of the programes that im using now eg. Maya makes it easier for an individual to transfer there skills and knowledge to the other.

Also a fundamental knowledge into photoshop and a bit of mathematics will put you even farther ahead. This is because realism in 3d comes primarily from photoshop and mathematics makes node work a educated decision rather than straight out guess work.

In knowing all of this there is still more or greater need of specialists in this type of industry so if you have real skills in photography for example it would be a great advantage in your search for real world work. Just some things to keep in mind.