Over the course of the first half term we looked at research methodology, referencing, citing, search engine and search operators and the different types of research methods and techniques. All to get us ready for our assignments over the UAL course. We were told that for all our assignments this year any citation or references…

A write up of the processes I went through to create my renders for my Unit 1 assignment

In today’s lesson we looked at the way we want our future portfolios to look. I started on Miro and took five 16:9 frames and used them as my base to organise my plan and named four of them the titles of my pages: Homepage, Blog, About Me and UAL Games Dev course. I also…

The next lesson we continued to look at cutting and editing videos. As a task to improve my skills I had to create a tutorial on how to create something in blender combining two subjects we are looking at right now. I achieved this by first recording myself doing some box modelling and then watching…

Today I looked at texturing and shading my sword model. I separated the jobs into three: the metal parts of the sword (blade, guard, tightening rings and pommel ring), the leather grip and the pommel gem. First I looked at the metal, I started with the blade. I added a base material and then increased…

I continued my modelling by adding more of my reference images in using the images as planes tool. I first went back and ensured I had labelled objects correctly so that I knew what was for what and if I handed the project off to someone else they would be able to understand. I then…

Today’s lesson was our first look at Premiere Pro. This lesson was focused on the loading of the software, importing videos, arranging them on the timeline, cutting the clips removing excess footage and adding simple effects like transitions and text. I used clips I had on my drive of me and my friends playing Fortnite…

Today we looked at tools to assist in Planning, Production and Time Management. We looked at six different tools Sketch: it is a design tool for teams to collaborate on design projects. it is popular for designing user interfaces Figma: is another design tool that is more common for the front end design of a…

Research During my skim of Swords and Swordsmen by Mike Loads in 2010 as well as Records of the Medieval Sword by Ewart Oakeshott in 1991 I found a diagram of a 15th century arming sword and records of an arming sword. This diagram and records support my modern source on the length and style…

Today I started to look at the plan for my model. First, who and why? I have talked to some members of my group that play D&D on Sundays and we decided that having a visualisation for my omnipotent character I use to move the plot forward would be helpful. To get it within the…