#des323

I have used alot of tutorials to try and create the animation that I was looking for. It has been really difficult and time intensive as I don't really have any experience with animation.

Hopefully I pass.

Animated Flower in blender

Initially this was what I was going to try and construct. It took hours to try and construct each of the leaves as I had to get used to the keys in the program. I then had difficulty with the verticle add and didn't realise I would need them to create the tendrils. I progressed on and thought I would just be able to illuminate the flower. This tutorial included nodes and textures and using the clouds texture to have the leaves moving. I attempted to follow the tutorial but ended up not being able to complete as I had changed some of the constructs of the flower extruding and bevelling and changed the shape therefore wasn't able to select the outside. I did write some instruction down and tried to animate the leaves with empty to diplace the textures but I was unable to set up the keyframes or change it too linear. I gave up!

Grass

I thought it would be great to add some real looking grass to the animation. I again followed a tutorial using particles. The first tutorial I did with the grass ended up looking like someone had just painted clumpy brush strokes everywhere. Even though I had changed the seed, and how many strands the lengths of the hair. The parent child combo I don't think worked they way I had intended.

So the next time I did it I used the advanced settings and changed the hair length, number of strands, changed the brownian and left it at the. It ended up a much better image of grass than what I initially had.

I tried to animate parts but again I have found it really difficult.

Beehive and animated Bees

This initially has taken be about 7 hours to complete. I am much more familiar with how the commands and how they now work in blender. I have been able to create this stylised beehive however again the struggle is real to try and capture and render the animation. Even adding the keyframes to have the bees moving has been no short of difficult. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I did have a look at the nodes but it was so complex and above my understanding of blender I had to stop and just attempt to do the basics.

I am attempting to add the sun in there and another animal. But l we will see how it goes.

I was able to put in a background and add constraints.... to my little bees. in the constraints by changing the influence allows the bee to be located close to the bezier curve. The higher the influence the further away it is.

Touch Designer

One of the mistakes I think will touch designer is not really understanding what you are actually doing. I have repeated tutorials multiple times and then realised that I hadn't connected a node properly or something else would not display. Very frustrating when you actually don't understand the concept of the whole node system anyway.

Created a geometry instancing with tubes in a grid. The tubes are rotating in the grid in a sort of snake like fashion with multiple colours. Attempted to change it too a circle and the whole effect was gone. Quickly changed it back.

The second option if tried was using the particle system to create an amazing animation. I thought I was struggling to export the video but I eventually got it working. I did attempt to

Krita

2D animation - I watch so many 2d animation videos watching toddler TV I was really inspired by the Bluey cartoon. Quite simple but really easy to follow. I have got a little bit lost along the way whilst trying to do my animation. I have found the process really difficult .

Stop Motion