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My new portfolio of work can be found at  katieknudsonart.com
Thank you for dropping by!

Animation Warmups and The Door

Silhouette Assignment from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

Waiting Assignment from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

Taming the Beast from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

DFA - Design Lab Characters

First project for Drawing for Animation! Had to pull characters from silhouettes, scribbles and textures!

Best Friends Forever

Some Portraits, Illustrations and Bioshock Infinite!

So happy that it's summer! Even with the full time internship there's so much more time for drawing, and more importantly, sleeping! Lots of sleeping.

Here are a few things that I've done over the last month!

Portraits:

A portrait of my Uncle Mike for his birthday, and a portrait of Margaery Tyrell from Game of Thrones (played by the lovely Natalie Dormer)

Illustrations:

Some quick high school newspaper illustrations for my cousin Lizzy! The first story was on internet culture and the second was on party culture.

A birthday present for that same awesome cousin who wanted a poster design with the logo of her  college.
Then a commission in which I was asked to create a blend of Disney's Cinderella and Tarantino's Kill Bill (so much fun to do)

Bioshock Infinite:

I played Bioshock Infinite with my friends not too long ago and loved it! The storyline, the characters, and the gorgeous setting all combined to make an emotionally traumatic game. (which is a very, very good thing) So I drew one of the main characters Elizabeth to get out my feelings for the game!

Hope you're all having an awesome summer so far!

Final Projects for Sophomore Year!

Final Computer Animation Sit/Stand project:


Johnny! from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.


Final Concept II animatic:


A Clean Conscience from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

Hope everybody has an amazing summer!! :)

Montage, Pitches and a Portrait

PHEW, it's been a long few weeks! I just finished my montage for Concept II, I had lots of fun with this one because it was the first SAD piece I've done. (I think for now I'll stick with somewhat happier concepts)

A New Refrain from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

Aaand here are the three drawings I did for my montage pitch:

 

And lastly, a portrait I drew for my dad for his 51st birthday! I think he stalks my blog sometimes, so Hi dad! I love you!

 yes he has hippie hair. and yes you should be jealous.

A Little Bit of Everything

I'm finally on spring break, so I've got time to upload a little bit of everything from this semester.

Computer Animation: 

Artie Animation Quadfecta:


Artie Animation Quadfecta from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.


Cemetery Lighting and Texturing:


Cemetery Lighting and Texturing from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

Still Life Lighting and Texturing:

Concept Development:    

Final Simultaneity Animatic:


Sleeping Ugly from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

Zombies, Damsels and Lovesick Teens

Designing a lot of characters and whatnot for Concept and CA! Lots of fun!

Two Story Pitches for Concept II, both based on fairytales, Thumbelina and Sleeping Beauty! The class told me to go with Sleeping Beauty for the animatic!

So character designs ensued!

Computer Animation Sit/Stand Ideas:

(girl get's bitten by a zombie, sits down and dies, then reanimates as a zombie and shuffles away)

(Lovesick teenager is grounded and can't go out to see her beloved, then a rock hits her window. She sees him down below and climbs out of the window)

 I wanted to do a zombie walk, but my teacher picked the teen. Excited to model her though!

Just need to do a turn around of her and model her in sculpey, yay! (oh and model, rig, animate and render her in maya, yeah that too)

Cafe Sketches

Finally decided to take some time to scan and compile cafe sketches from the last couple of months!

First off we have my mom's fabulous knitting buddies:

Some airport sketches:

People at the mall (there were some of saxophonist kids at the mall playing holiday tunes, they were so suave):

People waiting in line at the Panera:

Doodling my friends on the back of a Steak-and-Shake menu (and also just more cafe sketches):

Have an awesome weekend everybody!

End of the year!

I made it to the end of my first sophomore semester!! SUCCESS! Here are a few final projects from the last month of torture -- I MEAN LEARNING, yes, learning and academic prowess!

COMPUTER ANIMATION 1 FINAL

SIMPLE POLY ANIMATION TRIFECTA

With Penelope the Simple Poly Witch! For this one we had to do a jump, a walk, and a turn with a simple character (no arms) that we modelled, textured, rigged, animated.....cried over...


Simple Poly Trifecta - Penelope the Witch from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT 1 FINAL

THE THIEF ANIMATIC

 Starring Fifi the daring purse dog, who is not satisfied with his life of imprisonment...

Frequent Flier from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

TRADITIONAL ANIMATION LIPSYNC PROJECT

The line is from 30 Rock...the voice is me...


Are you LISTENING TO MEE? from Katie Knudson on Vimeo.

Happy holidays everybody!

Sophomore Semester One, BIG UPDATE

Finally have enough time to update with ALL of the stuff I've been doing in my first semester of Sophomore Year!

For more info on any of the videos, I've got them all up on vimeo with more details and whatnot! 
https://vimeo.com/user10314997

TRADITIONAL ANIMATION II

Pantomime Project

  

Lipsync Character Sheet

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT I

Frog Animatic

  Rodent Animatic

Raven Animatic

The Thief Project: Three Storytelling Images for our first pitch!

My classmates chose the first one, the stewardess and the dog, so I created their character sheets:

Next, we had to do a perspective drawing of the layout for our setting!

COMPUTER ANIMATION I

Ball bounce project:

Primitive Theater:

PHEW! I think that's it! Back to work!

Family Portrait

Whew! Got commissioned to paint a family portrait, been working on this one for a while now. It's been fun to do, good painting practice!

16"x 20", Acrylic

Portrait Practice!

Self Portrait

Molly Hooper from BBC's Sherlock

My mum!

Portrait of a friend!

Lately I've felt the need to do a bunch of quick two hour portraits to practice speedpainting, colors and proportions! Lots of fun! :)
All done in photoshop!

SPCA Show

Finally whipped out my contribution to the SPCA show at a local art gallery! All proceeds go to help the animals, yay! Wanted to paint a pug because THOSE WRINKLES, so fun! :)
Done in gouache in 7-8 hours.

Alexa

For a while I've wanted to try painting something (or someone) with interesting lighting, so when I was babysitting Alexa, I saw the pink light reflecting from the swing onto her and freaked out. Then I took about a gazillion photos for reference. :) 

Done in ArtRage in about.... 6 or 7 hours total over a few days.

Here's the photo ref I used!

Isn't she so cute? 

3D Design and Figure Finals

My final for Figure Drawing was to caricature an animal from the Jungle Gardens Zoo near Ringling. I chose the crocodile. And I chose to make it fat.

For my 3D final, I had to sculpt, paint, light and photograph a character and their environment. So I made a Jellyfish Sorceress. She glows. A lot. :)

This was an awesome year, college is amazing and I can't wait for the next semester to start! I'll be working on learning things on my own and continuing to sketch all summer. But for now, I'll be drinking a crap-ton of Earl Gray tea and watching TV to make up for the stress of finals week. :) Have a good summer everybody!

Second Semester Perspective

Now that second semester has ended, I finally have all of my perspective class projects scanned and ready to post, here they all are in order! :)

"Dollhouse"

First Assignment: Strangest Place You've Been
I chose a family member's basement which I had to spend the night in. It was full of porcelain dolls and gave me the creeps. Yikes!
Watercolor and Pen

"Courtyard"

Second Assignment: Architectural Study in Complementary Colors.
I went quite overboard on the saturation, it's way way to bright! Ah well.
Marker and Colored Pencil 

"Girl Scout Cookies"

Third Assignment: Playground Takeover, portray one group taking over the turf of another

Girl scouts are determined, old folks homes are vulnerable to cute children. 

Ink wash and colored pencil

"Ruffnut and Tuffnut"

Fourth Assignment: Invented Domicile of a Known Character

For this one we had to take characters from a tv show or movie and portray where they live based on the style and feel of the movie. I chose Ruffnut and Tuffnut, the viking twins from How to Train Your Dragon!

Acrylic Paint and pen

"Midnight Read"

Fifth Assignment: Monster in the Bedroom

For this one, I wanted to portray that feeling I got as a kid when I stayed up late reading. I always felt like when I came out from under the covers the monsters would be there to get me because I was so guilty about staying up late! :)

Photoshop

"Hunting Lodge"

Assignment Six: The Trojan Horse

For this project we had to come up with an interpretation of the Trojan Horse story. I decided to stick to my childhood rural surroundings and go with animals getting revenge on the hunters! :)

Photoshop