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Week15 Creature Locomotion Tutorial

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Week14 Creature Locomotion

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Week13 Creature Animation

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Week12 Breathing Animation

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Week11 Facial Animation – Lip Sync

Lip Sync This week’s lecture introduced the workflow for lip sync: Blocking → Blocking Plus → Polishing. In blocking, we focus on clear key poses (including the facial expression), then add breakdown keys and major mouth shapes/timing, and finally polish by connecting mouth shapes smoothly. A main focus was jaw opening (“muppet mouth” approach): identify […]

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Week10 Project 1 Music & Dance Style Development

I began developing the musical and performance elements. I created two music demos to explore the emotional atmosphere of the project and to help guide the rhythm and movement of the dance performance. One of the music demos was co-created with Angela from RCA Contemporary Art Practice Female voices form the main melodic texture, supported […]

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Week9 Project 1 Experimental Video & Visual Exploration

After developing the initial concept, I began researching experimental dance films and atmospheric visual references. I was particularly interested in works that combine body movement, environment, lighting, and emotion without relying heavily on dialogue or traditional storytelling. Many of these references use movement and cinematography to create psychological or dreamlike experiences, which strongly influenced the […]

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Week8 Project 1 Freud Research & Initial Concept

My project is inspired by Freud’s model of the mind, which includes the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. I’m interested in how these mental states influence creativity, and how ideas can emerge from the interaction between conscious and the unconscious. This project is about exploring the relationship between conscious and unconscious in the creative process. At […]

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Week7 Facial Pose and Heavy Object & Change of Mind Tutorial

Heavy Object & Change of Mind Feedback This week’s polish feedback focused mainly on motion arcs. The tutor drew over my playblast to show that both the centre of gravity (COG) path and the weapon path need to be as clean and readable as the reference. In my current version, some arcs feel broken or […]

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Week6 Eyes Animation

Eyes Animation This week’s lecture was about Eyes Animation and how small eye-related actions can make a face feel natural and “alive”: blinks, eye darts, and eyebrow movement. A key takeaway was that blinks should have motivation (attitude/thought changes, changes in eye direction, head movement, or staring), rather than being added randomly. We also covered […]