u/Skidoobles

So how do you animate that in Blender while staying true to the piece? Well, it's ALWAYS a compromise. A big hold up in the process is trying to stay as true as possible while giving each element some character through movement that isn't the object floating in place. A happy balance of mostly stationary objects for your eyes to settle on and moving parts to convey your eyes to the next part. All wrapped up in an 8 second loop too (this one is 16 seconds but cutting that down is a necessity for releases and saving your hardware).

Each part of the painting needs to be evaluated as a singular frame in time, making each piece need to return to it's starting position, or move "out of frame". Defining the loops for each piece is typically the time consuming part... Some of the objects are hard to fathom in a 3D euclidean environment and some simply are impossible (or far too complex to animate by hand without painting every frame). It's arguably more difficult to do this than to just make a composition from scratch cause you don't need to define the shapes of each puzzle piece while putting it back together.

Once the "moving sculpture" is complete, it's just a matter of flying a camera through, framing shots, and a whole lotta rendering! Then all the pretty people in the crowd get to see the visual pack ripped live on the big screens. They can also be remixed so many different ways to fit various vibes and it's hella fun to mix with!

Stay creative all!

Original Acrylic Painting by Stephen Kruse

Animation and modeling by JonnaP Arts

The reference photo wasn't used to T in the moment. Instead the little orange dreamsicle was sleeping next to me while I worked. Too engrossed in the creation process to have taken an actual reference photo, I found one that matched nicely.

Made for live concert visuals. One collection that is a "cube" giving different pieces of art at different angles (ie - top and bottom, they're the same collection but camera rotated 180 degrees).

Rendered in eevee.

Behind the scenes on an the art/animation for VCTRE on his recent release, Balderdash. Broke this down in several cameras to use for social media and as a VJ pack for live concert visuals.

For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fkYobsPmo&list=PLQcGjMFEMPK4

New roof due to hail. I'm not sure what to think of this flashing. It looks big enough to cover the stepped flashing that was there prior.

POV shot mixing visuals for 🎶 LYNY - Section.

Catered to a bit more of the darker club vibe but bringing in some of the color to cater to the infravibe! And hey, dats mah wife on the screen!

Content was rotoscoped (with Ae) video footage of my wife spinning on her pole! Mixed live in Arena w/ custom wire effects controlled by Open Stage Control, launchcontrol XL, and a midi fighter spectral.

E: big shout-out to Antic Studios crushing the lasers and lights!

Here's a lil behind the scenes of the hand drawn raccoon animation for INZO with the rough, clean, and color passes as well as a snip of Coltron4040 mixing it live. The walk cycle alone totaled 11 frames at 8 fps. A great example of how everything doesn't need to be a high frame rate but should be used accordingly. Even if you're rocking toon style shaders - this can apply!

Cel animation done in Rough Animator. Compiled in After Effects. Coltron mixing in Arena.

Sorry the angle is not the best... Botched the camera positioning and didnt catch the faders on the midi fighter controlling the opacity of the content layer and speed of the clip.

E: This artwork is a mural by Anna Charney that I was commissioned to animate. The mural is on the Ralston Creek trail head where it passed under Quaker in Arvada, CO!