Exhibition website

For the web gallery and exhibition module I was in the web team, who were tasked with creating a website to advertise and provide more information about the exhibition we were creating.

The website can be found here: http://retroresolution.site90.com/

We decided to create a simple site design as the team did not have much experience in creating websites. The theme for the exhibition was retro so the graphics and icons used were chosen to fit with this theme. The graphics used on the site were provided by the graphics team and there were many changes before the design was settled on.

First I was tasked with creating a contact page for the website. I decided to create a form using php that can be used to send an email from the website. As I had never done this before so it needed a bit of research but in the end a fully functioning form was created. 

Next I worked on the gallery pages to add a lightbox to the page. As the three Polaroid images were saved as a single image, image maps were used to create the links. Fancybox (http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/) was used for the lightbox as it supported YouTube videos and links using the area tag, originally another lightbox plugin was being used but this didn't support videos (http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/). The setting were adjusted so the helper buttons were used as the left and right arrows wouldn't work with the YouTube content.

JQuery was also used to add smooth scrolling back to the top of the page as the pages were quite long, especially the gallery and students page.

This was my first time working on live website and I have learnt a lot from working on it.

iPod - critique

I modelled this iPod in Blender 2.49 quite early on in my use of 3d modelling software when I was still when learning.

Website

My new website can be found at: www.andrewbonnington.co.uk

Earth

Created in Blender 2.5

Virtual environments group project - video

Here is the video created for the group project of the virtual environments module. This is a shorter version of the complete animation we created as we felt that this version worked better as it was more concise. The full animation included a walkthrough after this section.

For more information see earlier post: http://andrewbonnington.blogspot.com/2011/10/virtual-environments-group-project.html

Undergraduate Major Project

For the undergraduate major project I have to write a 10,000 word dissertation on a subject of my choice related to the course.

Mine is related to 3d animation. The hypothesis for my dissertation is: The use of body language plays a large role in creating a believable animated character.

I will model and rig a character to be used in this for this project. I will animate the character and use a questionnaire to see whether the use of body language in the animation helps to make it more believable and better portrays the emotion of the character.

Video production

The task in this module is to create a video on the subject of our choice. A treatment, script and storyboard will need to be created to plan the video before it can be shot.

Web gallery and exhibition

This module consists of creating a CV and business card, and to work as a group to create an exhibition to showcase our work. The class is split into three teams web, exhibition and graphics and each is assigned different tasks.

A blog for this module can be found here: http://abonnington-galleryandexhibition.blogspot.com/

3D Character Animation

For this module we are tasked with creating a villain to star in a new children's TV show for the 7-11 age group.

A blog for this module can be found here: abonnington-3dcharacter.blogspot.com

Advanced Sound Techniques

The task in this module is to create a 3 minute soundscape, I created mine on Antarctica. Logic pro was used in the creation and the soundscape was composed of midi as well as apple loops.