2nd April 2021

This week I mainly focused on finishing my last game review for Core Principles. I worked on my review on Monday in the CP lesson and then in programming i copied code to create a menu system in the online compiler. For VFX we used the short clips we took around the site and put them in Windows Photo were we could add some effects and animations at different times and then link all of our clips into one video. I wished we could have learned to do some actual VFX work like green screen or motion tracking, even if it wasn't perfect it would have been a good learning experience. On Tuesday I had Art, where I continued with the character silhouettes I was doing but this week I was a lot more successful and the whole silhouetting process seemed to click with me. Instead of trying to draw something from scratch with a mouse or outline drawings I had already done, I used a lot of reference images to build up a character and outline them. This allowed me to create a character I liked and then make multiple copies so I could try different looks. In Animation we were given an already made animation where this time we would be focusing on using cameras. I managed to make one camera move in a way I liked but got a bit lost when trying to follow all the different settings to switch to the second camera, so I definitely need more practice with it. On Thursday we had a Wix and Blog catch up lesson in Games Dev where I worked on the blog entries I had missed or needed to add more detail to. In Modelling we implemented a brick wall model into Unreal Engine which will be useful information for if we have another Game Jam. Finally in Study Skills I worked a bit more on my game review before it needed to be handed in.