Vimeo test

Just testing out whether my videos would work better from Vimeo. Here's the little girl skipping again, only BIGGER!!! (I hope).
Vimeo seems to have made the weight fall twice, so it slightly ruins it, but interesting to see how it looks on my blog page.

Skippety skip from Sarah Knight on Vimeo.

2D scribbles - skippety, skip

I downloaded some cool open source 2D animation software: http://www.pencil-animation.org/
and have been playing around with it. The idea is that I'll be able to do storyboards, animatics, and general planning and timing with it, to help with the 3D stuff. I think I've barely touched on the possibilities, but just stuck to what I could work out.
However, I wouldn't rule out random silly animations like this one.

Waking lamp

I wanted to do something slightly more creative with the lamp, rather than just following the tutorial, so I added a short sequence to the beginning of the jumping lamp to try to add a bit of character.

Model, rig and jumping tutorial by Escape Studios

The rest of the shots for Massanimation

Here are the rest of the shots I animated for Massanimation.

Models, rigs and music courtesy of Massanimation and ReelFX.







The winning shot - don't blink:

A couple of Massanimation shots

Here are my Facebook Massanimation shots that didn't make the final cut. Yes, they are very short.

Models, rigs and music courtesy of Massanimation and ReelFX.

This a shot of the Daddy cello jumping down off the shelf to go and sort out the rock guitar:




This is a shot of the Daddy cello going to sort out the rock guitar and the Mummy cello jumping down to sort out the Daddy cello. Probably my favourite shot that I did.




And now it is not letting me upload any more videos . Will try to upload the rest soon.

A Pixaresque Lamp

Here's a lamp animation that I did at the weekend which I'm really pleased with. The model was made by Escape studios who do the online course that I follow, but everything else was me. (Following their instructions though, of course! No originality or creativity on my part whatsoever.) I just keep looking at it and going "It looks like a real light! An actual shining light!"

This is approximately my 50 millionth try to get this film up - finally, it has appeared! Quality's not great, but you get the idea. It's a jumping lamp.

Model and tutorial by Escape Studios.

The Legendary Rustic Scene

It's my Rustic Scene! Finally you get to see its rustic wonder, in all its zooming out reveal glory, with your own eyes! You need imagine no more.

This was the very first CG animation I did. After spending hours creating the fruit, the bowl, the walls, the barrel and the concrete floor and then lighting it, it was pretty cool to see it all come together. It's a little blurry here, but you get the general rustic idea.

Chair model, textures and instructions by Escape Studios.