It’s been a while since my last post but hoping to update. I went down a rabbit hole of Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects the past two weeks. Today; was particularly a good day for After Effects. What I would really like to work on is the audio effects and adding some quirky texts. Playing…
UE4 Update Phew its been a hectic few months and literally been **snowed** under 😀 I have learnt so much about UE4, about pipelines and of course, how useful coffee is! Learning about UE4 and its capabilities has definitely been the highlight, and the squished up time required to do this – the lowlight, of…
Next stop on the travels was to Riga in Latvia. Art Nouveau is a biggie and something I was really looking forward to seeing. The great thing is ; it is literally everywhere-not just in the dedicated Art Nouveau district. The landscape of the city is vibrant, with contrasting colours and extravagant colours/forms used –…
On a brief visit to Tallinn I am absorbing the beautiful and diverse styles of archicture and details of the buildings. First off the simple shapes in the “street furniture”. It reminds me of the simple concepts of Graphic Design that I completed with Coursera. The angular edges onto a usually rounded arc are particularly…
In parallel with the visuals research I got down to business with learning about Blueprints. Again, watching something is a very passive way of learning. So I started watching the Pluralsight videos again (Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints Fundamentals) and making notes. Making notes by hand made a huge difference in terms of what actually I…
It was a busy weekend at All Together Now. I was really excited about seeing the visuals in particular by Kiasmos and Jon Hopkins. In Sonar 2015, I saw Kiasmos’s visuals and really enjoyed it. This was just before I saw Dubfire’s visuals set which changed my life forever [Yes it was that dramatic 🙂…
The last 7 days have been reviewing the Emitters and making sure that I am keeping in line with my lecturer’s advice. I am a bit worried that it is August and I feel I don’t know very much about Emitters or how Blueprints work. I checked out my lecturer’s advice to see what he…
Time is moving on and term time getting closer! I set myself a task of figuring out which tasks I think need to be completed next. We have completed the blocking out of the videos. One of the team members suggested we check out a series of videos on doing camera work: https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/hot-moves-the-science-of-awesome.html Where I…
This week was spent understanding particle emitters using the Pluralsight course. As I watched, I took some printscreens and made some notes in a live Word document. The following emitters were covered: Sprite Emitters GPU Sprite Emitters Mesh Particle Emitters Ribbon Particle Emitters Beam Particle Emitters Anim Trail Particle Emitters Sub UV Particle Systems Optimizing…
I went off on a tangent this weekend slightly as I am only discovering how cool the iPad is for Apps and also trying to finish a little course I am doing on the side with California Institute of Arts. I thought it would be a good time to learn about graphic design in this…