{"id":550,"date":"2023-04-28T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/?p=550"},"modified":"2023-06-12T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:18:39","slug":"investigating-affordable-animation-software-by-ray-wyse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/2023\/04\/28\/investigating-affordable-animation-software-by-ray-wyse\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Honours Project : Investigating Affordable Animation Software by Ray Wyse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apartment 405 - Student Film Animatic\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Apmet-49o7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the honours project Ray investigated different free and low cost animation software, before creating an animatic; proving that you don&#8217;t need to spend a lot to get professional results.\u00a0 \u00a0The scene was created in 3d space using Blender, an open source software, with the 2d character drawings slotted in between the 3d models.\u00a0 This allowed Ray to manipulate what the viewer would see in the final piece and create different camera angles and shot types.<\/p>\n<p>Ray has already had some success with the project, winning &#8220;Best Poster&#8221; at the honours project showcase.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of Ray&#8217;s work here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/raywyseart.wixsite.com\/portfolio\">https:\/\/raywyseart.wixsite.com\/portfolio<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_551\" style=\"width: 1643px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"size-full wp-image-551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/04\/Image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"An image of a room in a 3d modelling package\" width=\"1633\" height=\"874\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 3D space before colour and filters are used to give the cartoon effect.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"size-full wp-image-552\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/04\/Image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"An image of a  3d room with a 2d character added within Blender\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image shows how the 2d characters can be placed within the 3d space<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_553\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"size-full wp-image-553\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/dmid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2023\/04\/Image_small.jpg\" alt=\"Ray's prize winning honours poster\" width=\"1000\" height=\"706\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray&#8217;s prize winning honours poster, which explains the process undertaken<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><b>This post is part of a series celebrating the work the year 4 students have created for their honours projects.\u00a0 Thanks to Ray for allowing us to feature this work.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the honours project Ray investigated different free and low cost animation software, before creating an animatic; proving that you don&#8217;t need to spend a lot to get professional results.\u00a0 \u00a0The scene was created in 3d space using Blender, an open source software, with the 2d character drawings slotted in between the 3d models.\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,17,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modules-2d-animation","category-3d-modelling-animation","category-honours-projects","category-featured-projects","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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