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…
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…
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…
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…