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!