Welcome to the animation
section of Starbright Illustrations, let's call it Starbright
Animations.
Animation is a subject that I have been interested in for some time. I studied animation as part of my Graphic Arts education and this is not the first
website that I have created which showcases animation. I have fought the Google pages online interface to create a small website dedicated to gif
animations, I have kept a wordpress blog about animation and a blogger blog about animation, this was back in the days when the Photoshop
animation component was a whole different component.
It is however only recently with my discovery of Blender, the open-source and completely free 3D animation and illustration suite that I have really
cracked the problem of creating interesting and entertaining animations using only the resources available to someone stuck on a laptop
communicating with the world down a pretty good, but not great, Internet connection.
Blender is a dream come true. I can easily create meshes (these are the shapes that move about in the animation), colour them, give them a
texture, animate them and render them to a Quicktime .mov format with sound all from within the same program. The last 2D animation I created
required four or five programs to be used in its creation and was far less than optimal at the end of this protracted process. My poor old laptop
would regularly groan and stutter to a halt at the mere thought of the file sizes involved.
Anyway that's all ancient history now, if 3D animation can be said to have such a thing, long live Blender.
Animation is a subject that I have been interested in for some time. I studied animation as part of my Graphic Arts education and this is not the first
website that I have created which showcases animation. I have fought the Google pages online interface to create a small website dedicated to gif
animations, I have kept a wordpress blog about animation and a blogger blog about animation, this was back in the days when the Photoshop
animation component was a whole different component.
It is however only recently with my discovery of Blender, the open-source and completely free 3D animation and illustration suite that I have really
cracked the problem of creating interesting and entertaining animations using only the resources available to someone stuck on a laptop
communicating with the world down a pretty good, but not great, Internet connection.
Blender is a dream come true. I can easily create meshes (these are the shapes that move about in the animation), colour them, give them a
texture, animate them and render them to a Quicktime .mov format with sound all from within the same program. The last 2D animation I created
required four or five programs to be used in its creation and was far less than optimal at the end of this protracted process. My poor old laptop
would regularly groan and stutter to a halt at the mere thought of the file sizes involved.
Anyway that's all ancient history now, if 3D animation can be said to have such a thing, long live Blender.
The Adventures of Dark Cat
#1 Meow
This is my first completed 3D Blender animation and it was a real
learning curve. I am very pleased with the final results and for a
silly, funny little animation with a cute character in it's not bad at
all. It makes me laugh every time.
And this lovely unassuming little animation loads quickly and
didn't take long to render at all. It was a pleasure to work on it.
Find out more about this 3D animation in the blog posts about it
here.
First version with sound.
3D Problems, problems.
The mesh really starts to move.
Tinkering in a virtual studio.
Shrinking that big old 3D animation.
Easy 3D hair in Blender.
A satisfyingly animated conclusion.
This is my first completed 3D Blender animation and it was a real
learning curve. I am very pleased with the final results and for a
silly, funny little animation with a cute character in it's not bad at
all. It makes me laugh every time.
And this lovely unassuming little animation loads quickly and
didn't take long to render at all. It was a pleasure to work on it.
Find out more about this 3D animation in the blog posts about it
here.
First version with sound.
3D Problems, problems.
The mesh really starts to move.
Tinkering in a virtual studio.
Shrinking that big old 3D animation.
Easy 3D hair in Blender.
A satisfyingly animated conclusion.