Toolkit 2 || Submission Post

Life Drawing
27/09/2017 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/life-drawing-lines-and-colours-and.html
04/10/2017 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/life-drawing-chalk-and-charcoal.html
11/10/2017 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/life-drawing-ink-and-colour-power.html
25/10/2017 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/life-drawing-surface-textures.html
23/11/2017 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/life-drawing-silhouettes-and-posing.html
15/01/2018 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/life-drawing-charcoal-storyboard.html
22/01/2018 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/life-drawing-chalk-and-charcoal.html
29/01/2018 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/life-drawing-lines-and-colour.html
07/02/2018 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/life-drawing-single-line.html
19/02/2018 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/life-drawing-shading-is-gravity.html
05/03/2018 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/life-drawing-chalk-and-charcoal-and.html
12/03/2018 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/life-drawing-green-chalk-and-charcoal.html

Mudbox
Fruits - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/autodesk-mudbox-pepper-practise-and.html
Final scene - http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/mudbox-mask-and-avocado-offerings-still.html

Character Design Workshop
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/character-design-workshop-party-on.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/character-design-workshop-environment.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/character-design-workshop-party-on_26.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/character-design-workshop-facial.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/character-design-workshop-props-and.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/party-on-kaiju-character-development.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/character-design-workshop-environment.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/character-design-workshop-shining.html
http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/party-on-kaiju-props-character.html

Sculpture
Week 1- http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/sculpture-handsome-jack-week-1.html
Week 2 - http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/sculpture-handsome-jack-week-2.html
Week 3-5 - http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/sculpture-handsome-jack-week-3-5.html
Week 6-8 - http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/sculpture-handsome-jack-week-6-8.html

Autodesk Maya Tutorials

Jet Pack Jones
Head Part 1 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/autodesk-maya-jetpack-jones-tutorials.html
Head Part 2 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/autodesk-maya-jetpack-jones-tutorials.html
Body Part 3 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/autodesk-maya-jetpack-jones-tutorials_15.html
Body Part 4 - http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/autodesk-maya-jetpack-jones-tutorials.html
Skinning Part 5 - http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/autodesk-maya-jetpack-jones-tutorials.html
(lower body skinning is also finished)

Lightning and Rendering Tutorials 
Part 1- https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/autodesk-maya-lighting-and-rendering.html
Part 2 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/autodesk-maya-lighting-and-rendering_8.html
Part 3 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/autodesk-maya-lighting-and-rendering.html
Part 4 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/blog-post.html
Part 5 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/autodesk-maya-lighting-and-rendering.html
Part 6 - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/autodesk-maya-lighting-and-rendering_23.html
Part 7 - http://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/autodesk-maya-lighting-and-rendering.html

Lesson Tasks
Action Poses - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/autodesk-maya-5-action-poses.html
Weightlifting - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/autodesk-maya-weightlifting.html
Facial expression surprise - https://dragooneranimation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/toolkit-2-moom-surprise-face-animation.html

Reflective Statement
I have gained a lot from following these tutorials, I am able to apply learnt techniques to other projects, especially from the lighting and rendering tutorials. Acting is very important for animation because it helps us visualise scenes and sequences before they are transferred into 3D. The acting lessons also helped me understand important elements of staging like the four walls, and where everything should be situated as well as how the motivations of characters affect the way they interact with each other. Sculpture and Life drawing were key to understanding how objects are made in 3D space from a tactile perspective, it encouraged us to think in different ways to how we usually would, such as how to sculpt hair or facial applications like piercings. By introducing problem solving into learning it helped to further my experience in different areas. As well as all this we had lessons in animation which focused on facial expressions, body language, and other aspects of the maya program. On the whole I believe I have given myself a taste of industry and I would like to know more about how these programs and techniques can help me create animations.

In the future I would like to use the skinning techniques in my major project and potentially experiment with some of the other features that Maya has to offer such as the bullet simulation and Xgen generator.