Author Archives: Abegayle Elmes

Week 10 : Houdini Lesson 10 (Height Field – last lesson)

The last lesson of Houdini is to learn how to create a plain using the numerous nodes beginning with ‘height’. Then Medhi goes into how to create water within the plain. I didn’t get to attempt to make any terrains … Continue reading

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Week 9 : Houdini lesson 9

This lesson was based around continuing the hair simulation, rendering and to create the effect of walking the a terrain of grains like sand or something. I wasn’t able to do one myself but I did watch and take notes … Continue reading

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Week 8 : Problems With Model

This week I was definitely struggling with this project. I felt like I hit a wall and got kind of lost through a mind field in a spider web. I felt like I wasn’t very good at this project and … Continue reading

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Week 6 : Personal Project – Plastic Terras Logo

So I have been having a great result with the Ekkah cover, so I decided to also do it for my friends who are rappers in Bristol. I heard their new music drop today and wanted to surprise them with … Continue reading

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Week 7 : Catch Up On Meeting

Due to extenuating circumstances, I had to miss this tutorial because a close family friend passed away. I rewatched the tutorial to catch up what was said with how Diana was getting on. It seemed like she was progressing really … Continue reading

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Week 6 : Issues with Model

So with this meeting I was having issues with the model. I was getting a bit upset with myself because Diana seemed to have progressed nicely with the smoke simulations but the car was getting more and more complicated. I … Continue reading

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Week 4 : Personal Project – Separating Ekkah Logo

As my first cover art I decided to make into 3D was the amazing band called Ekkah. I know the base guatarist through my older brother and have been to see them many times. They realised their new song with … Continue reading

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Week 5 : Separating Model

This was how I separated my model so that I could start working on fixing the model to then distract it. I needed to get the parts like metal, glass etc. This was because these parts need to make sure … Continue reading

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Week 5 : Personal Project – Framestore Lecture

Today we were fortunate enough to have a lecture from Andrew Schlussel who is a recruiter from Framestore to talk through what the different areas we could go into. Films we would know they did in their studio were: Gravity … Continue reading

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Week 4 : Cleaning Up Model

We had planned a meeting with me, Medhi and Diana to talk about cleaning up the model. Due to some extenuating circumstances I was not able to attend the meeting. I did watch the recorded meeting on Teams to catch … Continue reading

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