A Little Bit of Python

So my first proper python program. A halftone program. This took in images and processed them on whether the user desired full color, single colour or greyscale images, and what shape they wished to see. I gave the user a great many options of circle, square, diamond or triangles. It also had to what level of detail the user wanted their image.

I was fairly impressed with myself on this one as I confess I managed it in a week. Originally I had intended to make a tower of Hanoi solver and spent weeks only to not get the final algorithm. However I did achieve a gorgeous little script that did the set up for me and in any given colour too!

Rachel

Where It All Started

Coincidentally while I'm on this trek down memory lane, I thought I would reveal to you my very first Maya achievement! a little tractor. I was immensely proud of this little thing, but once again you turn to the computer next to you and are flabbergasted to see the same model just a bazillion (and yes that's surely a real number?) times better with a modeled grill, shaded and with glass windows and Tyre treads.

Rachel

My Model Jim

Right well this was also first year, this time a modelling assignment of a character and a prop. Due to my slight obsession with Disney's Treasure Planet at the time, I of course thought it would be a brilliant choice for my first every attempt at modelling.

My conclusion? Nope! Humans are so HARD to model. I spent hours on the face only to realise that the person on the next computer over had done a perfect likeness of Scooby Doo or Pikachu in a few minutes, oh how I despaired! However, one bright side to all this pain and effort was that his windsurf board was AMAZING to model I loved it.

Note to self, model mechanical props, not people with faces.

Rachel

BillyBob "Surprise" Animation

This was my first year "Billy Bob" animation, we were given the character and asked to animate a 15 second piece with the theme of "surprise". This was made especially challenging by the fact that BillyBob was basically a potato with legs and eyes. You come to realise just how much communication is done through gesticulation when you have no hands to animate, however you also learn how important the eyes are.

Well enjoy my interpretation of surprise.

Rachel

Just A Simple Hello

Hi,

my name is Rachel Laura Cooke, and I am hoping this blog will be a good way of tracking progress over various projects I am working on. Not all my posts will be as formal as this one, in fact in most I will probably resort to mere pictures and videos, but as that is the nature of my work, I'm sure this is OK.

So a little about myself, I'm currently in my 3rd year at Bournemouth University studying Computer Visualisation and Animation and this will be probably the bulk of my work for a while. I enjoy casual gaming as well as movies, that's pretty typical of most people now but here is one you might not see coming, I also enjoy studying classical civilisations. So pretty much, my aims are to get into industry, although I still have yet to specialise in something, unfortunately on my course, everything is too damn interesting.

I guess the immediate projects that spring to mind for this year will be my major group project animation, my innovations project, and my group programming project. Busy, busy, busy.

In the meantime I will upload some older stuff I've done to keep you entertained.


Rachel