This week I tried to bring it back to basics with Unreal! Instead of going off on tangents I wanted to figure out how to do simple things like sound, putting in a camera, how to do an animation…. and also playing with it. It was probably the first week I actually just had fun…
So for the group animation project we needed to do our blockout as part of the process pipeline – to see what a simplified version of our animation would look like. I was tasked with showing the change in seasons and some dialogue between the main characters, the fairy and the clockbird. I really wanted…
So this week was a combo of trying to get ahead with my Animation Project. Realising that – even though its the summer, there still needs to be a lot of work done. I can’t go all out social and enjoy myself too much because there is work to do! I watched the main principals…
I am writing this post in the future for the past! So last week was a lot of networking. I met with Niall Campion of VRAI. We discussed the use of VR in real terms – how its applied, use cases etc. Then I attended the 3D camp meetup – which had talks from a…
This week has been more about connecting with people in the VR world more than actually learning. I met with VRAI and discussed what they are working on. It’s really exciting how they are combining training with VR. One of the biggest questions I had was what is big in VR at the moment. The…
I’ve been following the Unreal Academy and it’s pretty tough going. I am enjoying my 45minutes stints as recommended by my lecturer. What I really like is that the tests really make you think. Like learning any new area, its the lingo that can put you off. The orientation of the window is slightly different…
Today I really started into Unreal Engine. I continued with Unreal Academy‘s very informative tutorials. It was a bit of content importing from another project. The big thing about Unreal is that you migrate Assets/ Instead of copying and pasting files in the Back-end which is what you do with Maya.(Not very helpful particularly when…
It’s the summer, with some monsoon summer thrown in. I got even busier with more exams and so my Unreal fun got disturbed. In the meantime though I did get in touch with Elaine Hoey about Unreal and if she had any pointers about learning it. Elaine gave a really good workshop at DAS in…
Soooo the update is: Unreal is the new software to learn. After a face to face with my lecturer, and advice for what to focus on over the summer; he advised that when we are back in September to know how to trigger particles in Unreal. To get to know the weather systems and to…
So it was the end of the term last week and we got to officially play with Unreal. After a bit of faffing, I got it downloaded. I managed to “Create an Event” that was a swinging lamp that had a rotating frequency at a multiple of the PC’s internal clock. (It sounds very complicated…