This post is part of a series celebrating the work the year 4 students have created for their honours projects. Thanks to Anna for allowing us to feature this work.
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Goodnight Sara is a short animation made by Rebecca Allen for her year 2 2D animation project. In the film Sara discovers that being tired and stressed can lead to unexpected consequences.
Rebecca created her characters and backgrounds in Procreate to give a hand-drawn feel before rigging and animating in After Effects.
You can see more of Rebecca’s work here – https://rebeccaallen0429.wixsite.com/rebecca-allen-media or on instagram @rebeccaallen.media
This work was created for the 2D animation module run by Fiona Stewart and Andrew McKelvey. Thanks to Rebecca for allowing us to feature her work.
Several of our Digital Media and Interaction Design and Sound Design students took part in the Global Game Jam at Edinburgh Napier University in January 24. David Richards (Year 4 Digital Media and Interaction Design ) used his illustration skills to help bring two of the games created to life.
He says “It was a brilliant experience! It was so refreshing being able to collaborate with other people with the same passion for video games.” David collaborated on the two games seen here- creating characters and landscape art for “Moonbear Typing” and creating the title screen for “Ye Olde Funnybone”.
You can see more of David’s work here –https://www.artstation.com/deerich98
The Game Jam games for Edinburgh are available here – https://itch.io/jam/edinburgh-ggj24-say-no-to-gai
For his honours project, Johnny Viola investigated the use of motion graphics to increase engagement with history. The visuals used updated versions of colours and styles found in paintings of the period, giving the animation a rich texture that adds to the storytelling. Johnny also won a prize for this poster showcasing the work at the Honours poster day.
You can see more of Johnny’s work here –johnnyviola.com
This post is part of a series celebrating the work the year 4 students have created for their honours projects. Thanks to Johnny for allowing us to feature this work.
Sensory Soundscapes was created by Ellen Scott for her honours project and focussed on visualisation techniques within virtual reality (VR) experiences. The project offers a unique, interactive and fully multisensory experience that transports participants through three musical environments. Each environment explores a different musical genre and music visualisation technique that users experience in VR via the Oculus Quest 2 headset. The clip above shows a walkthrough of the project, while the images below show some of the interiors created in Unreal Engine.
You can see more of Ellen’s work here –https://ellenlarsonscott.wixsite.com/portfolio
This post is part of a series celebrating the work the year 4 students have created for their honours projects. Thanks to Ellen for allowing us to feature this work.
BeWell is a mental well-being support and social app aimed at students. Jonathan followed a User centred process, involving his target users throughout to ensure that the solution met their needs. As well as a high-fidelity prototype suitable for user testing he created detailed brand guidelines and a design system to ensure consistency.
You can see more of Jonathan’s work here – https://www.behance.net/jonathan-wood
This post is part of a series celebrating the work the year 4 students have created for their honours projects. Thanks to Jonathan for allowing us to feature this work.
For the honours project Ray investigated different free and low cost animation software, before creating an animatic; proving that you don’t need to spend a lot to get professional results. The scene was created in 3d space using Blender, an open source software, with the 2d character drawings slotted in between the 3d models. This allowed Ray to manipulate what the viewer would see in the final piece and create different camera angles and shot types.
Ray has already had some success with the project, winning “Best Poster” at the honours project showcase.
You can see more of Ray’s work here – https://raywyseart.wixsite.com/portfolio
This post is part of a series celebrating the work the year 4 students have created for their honours projects. Thanks to Ray for allowing us to feature this work.
You can check out what our year 2 students have been making on the Playful Interaction instagram – https://www.instagram.com/playfulinteractionenu/
They are given a challenge each week to create a response to a “Playful Provocation” using the Arduinos and the skills they are learning – can’t wait to see how they incorporate these into their final projects!
Thanks to Suzi Cathro and the student on the year 2 Playful Interaction module for sharing this work.
We are excited to share with you “New signs for animation” a short animated film, created to raise awareness of the issue surrounding the availability of Animation/Games terminology for sign language users – both locally and abroad. The team, led by lecturer Jon Mortimer, consisted of two recent ENU graduates and four deaf artists, and was supported with funding from ENU’s Public engagement fund. It helps to highlight the struggle students from the deaf community encounter trying to pursue a career in the animation or games sectors, due to a gap in available language.
“New signs for animation”, has recently been nominated for awards and continues to be considered for film festivals around the world:
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[Nominated] Industry Excellence Awards, Storyboarding (Manchester Animation Festival) https://www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk/iea-2021-nominations-announced/
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[Nominated] Creative Edinburgh Awards – Commercial award https://www.creative-edinburgh.com/awards/2021
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Finalist in the British Short film Awards 2021 – (1) Best Animated short film & (2) Best Scottish Short film https://www.thebritishshortfilmawards.co.uk/2021-awards
We are constantly amazed by what our students achieve with digital technology! They learn to combine creative ideas and technical skills; working on projects that always put people at the centre– whether that is making a new virtual reality experience, designing sound for a game or making sure a new app works well and looks great. In fact, we use computers as tools on so many different kinds of projects it’s impossible to list them all!
We offer a range of undergraduate programmes including Digital Media and Interaction Design, Sound Design, Web Design and Development, Informatics for Business and User Experience Design.
You can sign up for the open day and find virtual tours here – https://www.napier.ac.uk/study-with-us/undergraduate/meet-us/open-days
Check out more about our undergraduate courses here-
Digital Media and Interaction Design and also check out our blog
You can apply to start these courses in year 1 or join us in year 2 or 3 if you have completed a suitable HNC or HND – see the course pages for more information.
We have another new course coming soon for year 3 and 4 entry only – Animation for Games
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