Welcome to my blog!

Hello everyone, I am AJ! I study 3D Animation & Games in Middlesex University and this blog will record my journey of becoming a successful creator.

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Core Project 5 - VR 3 x 3, Week 3

This is the finished outcome of our project. We ran into some issues exporting it and couldn’t solve them, therefore we didn’t export it and compress to a .zip folder. 

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Life Drawing - 25th March, 2021

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Core Project #5 - VR 5 x 5, Week 2

I spent this week finalizing the concept of the room and the placement of furniture and decorations. I also modeled some very simple, low-poly tools for Prince Egon’s desk and we slowly started to put the big picture together.

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Life Drawing - 11th March, 2021 (Part 2)

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Life Drawing - 11th March 2021 (Part 1)

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Core Project #5 - VR 3 x 3, Week 1

This was a group project and the members of my group were Vitor, Theo, Chandan, Jessi and myself. We spent the first week coming up with our characters. I created Francis the Carrot, but we ended up choosing Theo’s Prince Egon. We shared our ideas on Miro and then I made a few rough sketches of possible layouts for the character’s room and some silhouetting.

Link to our Miro board: https://miro.com/welcomeonboard/CiLlxKPYmuByGpfUPi8ZaPG4j8P3tajiGi2BgmhkU63yd4uj27BB5J2YK8SAukE8

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Life Drawing - 4th March, 2021 (Part 2)

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Life Drawing - March 4th, 2021 (Part 1)

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One Week Challenge #2 - Mask

This week was all about experimenting with the ZBrush Core Mini software and I really enjoyed playing around with it! Instead of fully basing my 3D sculpture on the chosen reference, I decided to experiment a bit more and I’m quite happy with the final outcome! 

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Core Project 4 - Animation & Performance, Week 3

I spent the last week polishing my animation and fixing some weird movements of the right leg and left hand. The final result is not perfect, but it looks much better than Week 2′s outcome. I believe that the character looks quite angry and threatening, and the lipsync turned out quite well. 

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Life Drawing - Feb 25th, 2021 (Part 2)

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Life Drawing - Feb 25th, 2021 (Part 1)

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Core Project 4 - Animation & Performance, Week 2

This week I focused on adding breakdown poses to my animation and some extra details such as head movements, more stomping and waving of the fist. Not all of it works, but I’ll polish my work before the final submission next week. 

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Life Drawing - 18th Feb, 2021 (Part 2)

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Life Drawing - 18th Feb, 2021 (Part 1)

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Core Project 4 - Animation & Performance, Week 1

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One Week Challenge #2 - Artist’s Garden

For this project, the artist we had to base our work on was Louise Bourgeois. Me and my project partner brainstormed on Miro, had a few meetings with the BA Game Design students and decided to work together. We wanted to add a lot of spiders, houses and scary lights to our garden. The following images show our discussions on Miro, my personal contribution to the Unity prototype (the house on the bloody hill surrounded by spiders and manikins), and a few screenshots from the finished work.

Link to our Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lWE1Ei4=/