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Independent Study: Character Animation
Purpose of Study Ever since I started the 3D program at CU Denver, animation has been my passion, especially character animation....
Caleb McCormick
Dec 18, 20234 min read
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Blog Post #10
Leading up to the preview screening, my team and I are working on finalizing the blocked animation for the animatic. The current shots...
Caleb McCormick
Dec 8, 20232 min read
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Blog Post #9
This week I am continuing to work on blocking the shots for the animatic, specifically some of the fight scene with Baaj, which was my...
Caleb McCormick
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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Blog Post #8
As we are gearing up for the end of the semester, my main focus is on blocking out the animation for several shots, and helping to plan...
Caleb McCormick
Nov 10, 20231 min read
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Beginning to Rig
This past week, my team and I are working towards being able to start animating in earnest, so rigging has been a main focus. My main...
Caleb McCormick
Oct 20, 20231 min read
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Planning and Start of the Semester
During this first week, my group spent a lot of time planning. Our short is going through some changes and received a good amount of...
Caleb McCormick
Sep 8, 20231 min read
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Modeling Hero Assets
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on mostly on modeling hero assets, mainly the Roc and the leg brace that the main...
Caleb McCormick
Apr 21, 20232 min read
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Modeling Interior Assets
One of my team's goals for the production pass next week is to have all of our secondary hero assets modeled, so this week I mainly...
Caleb McCormick
Apr 7, 20231 min read
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Research and Modeling
This week, my team mainly focused on continuing to model assets. One of the things we received feedback on in terms of our animatic was...
Caleb McCormick
Mar 31, 20232 min read
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Animatic and Beginning to Model
This week, my team and I are mainly continuing to work on blocking shots and camera movements for the layout animatic, as well as...
Caleb McCormick
Mar 10, 20231 min read
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Shot Layouts, Blocking, and Preparing for Next Week
Over the last week, my team and I have been working on laying out shots and blocking in assets, with the goal of having a layout animatic...
Caleb McCormick
Mar 4, 20231 min read
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Working on Roc Character Concepts
After the first Production Pass last week, my team and I realized that we needed to shift our focus from concept art, research, and...
Caleb McCormick
Feb 24, 20232 min read
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Character Concept Art
This week, while working on my thesis my team is beginning to shift from mainly research to focus on doing more concept art. My skillset...
Caleb McCormick
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Visual Development and Beat Analysis
This week I have continued doing research for the short, this time focusing on color and visual development now that I have more of an...
Caleb McCormick
Feb 3, 20232 min read
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Start of Spring 2023
The spring semester of my junior year began on the January 17th, and with that everyone has jumped straight into working on our thesis...
Caleb McCormick
Jan 26, 20231 min read
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Time Management
As finals are fast approaching, one of the biggest struggles I've had recently is time management. Juggling all of the responsibilities...
Caleb McCormick
Dec 4, 20222 min read
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Story Pitches and Dealing with Mixed Feelings
On November 7th, my Pre-Production for Story class pitched the ideas we were developing to the rest of our class as well as our...
Caleb McCormick
Nov 18, 20223 min read
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Managing Interpersonal Conflict
One of the biggest issues I've come up against, as my group prepares to pitch our story concepts to our class as a whole, is not related...
Caleb McCormick
Nov 6, 20222 min read
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Working on Story Concepts
For our thesis project, my group is working on three separate story concepts. At first, we switched groups every week to work with...
Caleb McCormick
Oct 23, 20224 min read
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Character Design and Story Development - October 16, 2022
In my Pre-Production for Story class, we are developing three stories, the main one I'm working on being Alienation, especially as both...
Caleb McCormick
Oct 16, 20222 min read
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