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.