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Super Mario Galaxy review

Super Mario Galaxy is a two player platforming game created by Nintendo in 2007 for the Nintendo Wii. As Nintendo’s third 3D game in the...

Robot part 2 - rigging

After finishing my robot mode l the next thing to do was rig it up for animation. The first thing to do is create a 'core' for the robot....

Art Essay

Traditional Art And Digital Art – Can they be used together? Do digital artists really need to know the basics? The digital world has...

Robot part 1 - modelling

Using the concept we drew up, we started creating a robot to animate using VFX. I had a lot of fun doing this, as it was a challenge and...

Match moving part 2 - Maya

The next part of tracking geometry took us into Maya, where we imported the 3D nodes of the camera track and the camera port into a 3D...

Cinematography

Cameras are used for numerous things in the media industry, for things such as VFX. We learned about cameras and the different settings...

Match moving part 1 - Nuke

Today we used NukeX for the first time to create proxy geometry, which is used to track an object's movement. This is done so that VFX...

Matrices

Matrices are used in many forms of science, from maths to physics. They are arrays of values used for things such as manipulating 3D...

2D game creation in Unity

Today we created a simple game in Unity, using simple sprites and mechanics. The game we made was a small moon lander game, where you...

Objectives

Objectives are something everything video game needs. Without them, there would be no reason to play. In video games, it is common to...

Representation of gender

Gender is a hard subject to talk about, even now. Everyone has been slowly opening up about it, but there are still obvious inequalities...

Software Development

Developing software is important, but not a lot of people consider the planning and thought that must be put in before a project is even...

Game Genres

Today we learned about different game genres, and how they can affect the way players play the games, and what kind of players play the...

Tic, Tac, Toe - alteration

Today we had a quick go at modifying the game of tic, tac, toe. We were split into groups of three and came up with a few ideas. This is...

Animation Principles

Today we learned about the main principles of animation. The principles are important to take into account because without some of them...

Concept art

In Art, we were taught about how artists can use computer programs to create art work. This can be done quickly, in a way called Concept....

GCD and LCM

Today we learned about the Greatest Common Divisors and Lowest Common Multiples. GCDs are the Greatest Common Divisors. This means they...

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