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Mind Map Pathway Ideas
This is my Mind map that I am going to do for my Final Major Project. For this theme for this project I selected as either flight or...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Jan 7, 20221 min read
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Initial Ideas
Theme: Aviation of Flight: Museums: Science Museum Imperial War Museum Royal Airforce Museum - Henden Yushukan Museum Military: Prototype...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Jan 6, 20221 min read
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AE86 Trueno Car Modelling on Maya
I first used the curve tool as a guide lines for clean building and understanding of flow of visulization of what the body looks like:...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Jan 1, 20221 min read
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Maya Kayaba odori ramjet fighter Modelling
During the Christmas Break I've decided to experiment and make some more 3D models on Maya to bump up more for my portfolio for my...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 29, 20211 min read
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Personal Statement - B1
I grew up watching anime styled animated movies such as "The Wind Rises" and "Weathering with you" created by Studio Ghibli and by "Comix...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 13, 20213 min read
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Chess Piece Work
This is the chess render that I've made on maya. I experimented with texturing with the board, desk, pieces and on top of the board it...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 12, 20211 min read
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Snackzilla Renders and Development
These are the characters that I made from Maya. I've used the illustrations of each of everyone's character and made it into a 3rd...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 12, 20211 min read
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Final SnackZilla Presentation
This is the final presentation for to show what we tooken critism by the client. Each slides consists of different ideas for the finale...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 12, 20211 min read
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Production Log
On the 12/01/21 it was the pitching day, we presented our ideas on what game we are going to show on our live action trailer. Each...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 8, 20212 min read
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Pixar Research
Pixar is another American computer animation studio based in California, founded in 3rd of Febuary 1986 by SteveJobs, Alexander Schure,...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 8, 20212 min read
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links
https://studentsouththamesac-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/20025562_student_stcg_ac_uk/EeeW1JAxTQFKo6EtloLr90sBRsx-oQmyzvMCGadpDWFscw?...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 8, 20211 min read
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List of 3D Softwares
Blender Free to dowload, open source, easy to learn and it is popular, mostly used for, animation, game design, modelling, lighting and...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Dec 3, 20212 min read
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links for research
https://www.google.com/search?q=spirited+away+monster+characters+concept+art&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=JwjlQu6vpqaLQM%252C_Qa7v0CgUd5...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 24, 20211 min read
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Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 23, 20210 min read
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Rigging Annotation
I first added the skeleton inside of the chess piece model then once after that I binded the skin. Before doing so I reseted the tools...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 19, 20211 min read
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Live Action Game Trailer Research Ideas
Idea 1: Team Fortress 2 Team Fortress 2 is a First person shooter game that was made by Valve. Its first launch was on the pc, then it...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 12, 20212 min read
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Plane Sketches
During over the weekend, homestay and museum visits, I sketched some few planes on my own on my sketchbooks. The plane sketches I drew...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 7, 20211 min read
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Lamp Modelling and Rigging
For this procss I experimented around with rigging, moddeling and colouring the lamp. I used the Boolean tool to make a hole on the...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 7, 20211 min read
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3D Animation and Modelling Resources
This is a file that contains all the instructions and resources needed to take your projects from animation to lighting and playblasting...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 7, 20212 min read
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Texturing Tutorial in Maya
Texturing in Maya Textures in 3D terminology are 2D images that we project onto the 3D objects. We call them texture maps and there are...

Nicholas Yamamoto
Nov 7, 20211 min read
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