Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Napier University

Ok so its been a while since my last post on here, Basically its been a busy year. I was awarded my HND for Visual Communication (New Media) In Edinburgh's Telford College. Therefore I was accepted into the Digital Media course at Edinburgh's Napier University at 3rd year level entry.

I had a rather productive summer holiday as I got married in Central Park New York and then spent a further 4 weeks travelling round various states in America. I visited New York, Las Vegas, California, Texas and Miami.

I have had a very busy time back at Napier University and have just completed my first trimester of the course. The modules I chose where, Introduction to 3D design, Sound Theory and Digital Storytelling and I managed to pass all 3 modules with a merit which I was delighted with.

I will post seperate sections for each module.

First i'll tell you about my 3D work.

We were introduced to Autodesk Maya 2011 by our lecturer Gregory who gave us The Well Worn Interior task. The goal for this coursework was to re-produce a photgraph of an interior that was "Well Worn" as the title would suggest. It was a good project to introduce us to different ways of modelling and for me, it was the first time I had really tackled texturing and lighting in 3D.

During this time in 3D we were also given a modelling project where we had to model a telephone in 1 week using reference images. Also we were given a house project which we were given weekly tutorials to model certain parts and items in the house and then left to texture the house the way we like.

I was quite pleased with what I handed in for this and was awarded an A grade pass for my work. As usual though I was critical of my own work as I am always striving to be better.

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