Blend Shapes

UV Map & Texture

Week 12 - Graph Editor

Week 11 - Skinning

Week 10 - Blend Shapes

Week 9 - The Spine

For my model it's more of a head curl than a spine...

Week 8 - Crit Week

Week 7 - Rigging The Arms

My rigged arms:

I used Set Driven Key to create a hand curl attribute:

Week 6 - Rigging The legs

My rigged legs:

Week 5 - Skeletons

This is the first skeleton that I created. I used the Mirror Joint tool so I only had to make one side of the skeleton then I mirrored the arms and legs across hanging _R_ to _L_

My Skeleton:

Week 4 - Pitch Week - Modeling

Week 3 - Character Design

Week 2 - Rigging, Skining and Topology

Poor mesh

Tidiy mesh

The Beginning

Alison Lane
Abertay University
BA (hons) Computer Arts
Year 3
Semester 1


This blog will be used as a place to store my ideas, inspiration, research, development and anything else related to the module 'AG0910A Advanced Visualisation'.


Monday 19th September -
I had the first lecture for Advanced Visualisation today. I was told all about the module and what I would be doing for this semester. 
For this semester I will need to create a maximum 30 second character animation showing the characters personality when he/she/it encounters an 'Unknown Element'. How the character will react will depend on his/hers/its personality.
I was told to start thinking of character designs and possible story's for next week.


Tuesday 20th September -
Tuesday was the first practical session. We got to play with Jimmy! I was given a character rig for the purpose of getting to know how to animate a character using controls and key-frames to achieve this.
A task was given to create a two step walk and the cycle the animation so that it could be repeated. I  managed to achieve this and my character walked forward successfully.


(PLAYBLAST COMING SOON) Here it is:

My feelings overall are very optimistic. I am looking forward to getting stuck in and learning how to rig.