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Local Shop Ecommerce Application - Technical Report
Account Usernames and Passwords Features Implemented Design Implementation Creating Login Functionality Initially, I created a public...

April Hussey
Jun 1, 2023


Primary School Application - Technical Report
Account Usernames and Passwords Account Used for Testing Features Implemented Design Implementation Going into this project, I decided to...

April Hussey
Apr 8, 2023


Bouncing Balls
Development Plan This is the Gantt Chart that I created to make sure that I wouldn’t run behind on this assignment. As I completed the...

April Hussey
Jan 30, 2022


Infographics, A Client Campaign
The premise behind this infographic is that it is for a client campaign that wants to try and reduce carbon emissions through reducing...

April Hussey
Apr 27, 2021


Typography - The Art of Writing
I wanted to explore the many ways typography is used and the intricacies within it. Why it is able to build brand recognition? Why is...

April Hussey
Sep 25, 2020


Evaluation of Climb Teddy Bear Climb
My final product: Starting this module, I was highly invested. I was very excited to start making things and this project gave me a great...

April Hussey
Dec 12, 2019


Finalising the Character Animation
Continuing on from the last part, I continued my animation. As I had set out my three action poses I was able to get straight to...

April Hussey
Dec 10, 2019


Animating the Camera and Rendering
As I have past experience with working with real cameras and understand the different types of shots and rules of film making I was...

April Hussey
Dec 10, 2019


Adding Some Pizzazz to the Final Video
As I have experience with video editing, I wanted to add some music to help the video have more of an atmosphere. Adding music to a video...

April Hussey
Dec 10, 2019


Building a Room and adding Lighting
To build the room around my animation I used NURBS planes. I did this for the four walls and the floor. For the walls, I simply assigned...

April Hussey
Dec 9, 2019


Starting to Animate
To start animating my model I opened a new Maya file and imported both the chair and my teddy bear model. This way I wouldn’t be directly...

April Hussey
Dec 9, 2019


Making a Simple Chair
As I want the focus to be more on my teddy bear model and the animation in the final render, I decided to make a very simple chair. The...

April Hussey
Dec 8, 2019
Deciding what the Animation will be
Now that my model is complete, it’s time to think about how I want to animate it. My initial idea was to just do a walk cycle, but that...

April Hussey
Dec 8, 2019


UV Unwrapping - Starting from Scratch with Texturing
As I’ve now rigged my model the last thing to do before I could start thinking about animation was the texturing. I had been putting off...

April Hussey
Dec 7, 2019


Adding Control Curves
Adding the control curves to my model was simple. On every joint that could have individual movement I added one and parented them to...

April Hussey
Dec 6, 2019


Getting IK Handles to Work
As mentioned in the last part, I wanted to seek some advice about my IK handle problem, I do so by speaking to one of my lecturers who...

April Hussey
Dec 5, 2019


Attempting to add IK Handles
I didn’t expect to struggle with adding IK handles to the legs of my model, however, it proved more difficult than I had initially...

April Hussey
Nov 28, 2019


Making Joints and Skinning
To rig my model, I started by creating joints for it. Knowing that I wanted my model to be able to move like a human would I decided to...

April Hussey
Nov 27, 2019


Attempting to UV unwrap my Model
The first step for me to start texturing my model was UV unwrapping it. I struggled with this a fair bit to start off with but managed to...

April Hussey
Nov 20, 2019
No Longer Derelict
In the very first part, I said that I wanted to make my teddy bear be in a derelict condition. I wanted it to have rips and stuffing...

April Hussey
Nov 18, 2019
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