Niall
Quinn

This is a personal project. The students design the brief themselves and work the project to completion. The project will be a 3d based outcome and may be any of the following: Virtual reality, Augmented Reality, Games based rendering, Motion Design, 3d Animate short etc. It may be a finished complete project or a part of a proposed development for completion at a later stage.

During the second semester students undertake a short 2 week work placement. This offers the students a chance to show use their learned skills in an industry setting.

Create an animation of a bipedal character interacting with a ball, the character and ball will both be rigged using techniques shown during the semester.

Create a complete concept document covering one of the following subject areas:

• Future Weaponry
• Steampunk Styled Object
• Cartoon Styled Vehicle

The final output should include development work, orthographic drawings for use as 3d modelling reference, texture reference sheets and 2 fully rendered beauty shots of the final design.

Choose from the following briefs:

• The four Horsemen: Create modelling concept design document for one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
• Pokemon Go Real: Redesign 2 Pokemon for use in special effects in a real world setting. Create a full design document for each model concept.
• The Monster Mash: Design a monster for use in special effects in a real world setting OR design 3 cartoon based monsters for use in a children's cartoon animation.

Create a model of one of your designs using traditional sculpting methods (Sculpey or Clay for example).

With the pre-made model of a robot do the following:

• Design a concept shot for your robot retexturing
• Unwrap the model and export UVs for texturing
• Create textures in Photoshop
• Render 2 full HD beauty shots of the final textured robot
• Create an animated model rotation of the final outcome

Model a low polygon Alien head

• Export this model into a digital sculpting package
• Sculpt and texture the model
• Export back into the 3d package as a low level mesh using a Normal texture to mimic a higher polygon model
• Render 2 beauty shots and a model rotation from the 3d package

Take one of the characters designed in brief 2 of the concept art module and do the following.

• Create a low polygon mesh of your design
• Unwrap the UVs of the model
• Export model into a 3d sculpting package for digital sculpting and texturing
• Export back to the 3d package for rendering
• Create 3 beauty shots and a model rotation rendered and lit in the 3d package

Create a model of a robot and an organic model using techniques acquired throughout the semester, ensuring that good edge flow and topology are present on the models.