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I recently tried a plugin for Maya… …And it just spurred a whole load of excitement. This could be what I’ve been looking for to get rid of my rigging woes and just let me be an animator. Its not perfect, but I’d rather take a day of messing around trying to get a rigContinue reading “Am I Saved?”

Our Last Assignment is Storytelling. I decided on a setting of a 50s Diner. I’m about halfway there. I’ve been knuckling down and just creating assets for the scene. I think the signage is looking good. I need to make some paths, road, plants around the building inside it getting there. I’m not sure whyContinue reading “Last Assignment This Year”

We had a talk with a local artist called Andrew Bell who also went to Newcastle College. His talk was really interesting. Especially when he was talking about NFT’s and how he can make some money off of them. I think his red guy character is pretty genius too. Something so simple but very recognisable.Continue reading “Andy Bell Talk”

The fact that Unreal Engine 5 has properly launched now makes me feel like I definitely need to step up and get learning how to use it now. Many industry developers seem to be opting to use it more and more now too. Apparently the next Witcher game from CD Projekt Red will be usingContinue reading “Unreal Engine 5 is Out Now”

I feel like I need to find ways of speeding the process up. Especially when it comes to hooking the textures up in Maya. Because it is such a slow process doing one material at a time. There must be some way that you can select an asset and put all the textures on itContinue reading “How Can I Speed Up 3D Workflow?”

We listened to a great talk by James Taylor who runs Arcus Animation where he introduced himself and gave some good advice about running a business. It was actually really insightful. He talked about his own journey and gave some great advice about what he learned and also how he has social media pages calledContinue reading “James Taylor From Arcus Animation Stream”

Twice now I’ve had the annoying problem of trying to move from one PC to another using Maya which has stopped me being able to do some rendering work at college seeing as the PC at college is better than mine at home. I thought that you would use File – Archive, which zips yourContinue reading “Why Won’t My Work Port To Another PC??”

It took a lot of trial and error but I think I’ve figured out how to export a model with animations from Maya. At first I tried File – Export and exporting as an .FBX with animation ticked and for some reason, the rig would end up all crushed looked when I opened it upContinue reading “I Found Out How To Export an Animation from Maya to Unreal Engine”

I decided to call it a day. The days upon days of headaches are over for now. I thought now was the best place to finish because I had the global control in place so I could move and scale the model without problems. I had to solve a number of issues along the wayContinue reading “Calling It A Day: Rigging Of My Model For This Project”

We got out and walked to a building next to the Discovery Museum which turned out to be owned by the college and was being used as an art gallery to show off work made by students. It was good to see some work made by other students because I don’t often get to seeContinue reading “Quick Visit to the Student Gallery”