Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/06/13/3d-witch-cat-animation-prep-going-nicely/

I need a background for my 3D witch’s cat animation and I’ve decided that the easiest way to go is simply to sketch one, scan it in and colour in the resulting image with Photoshop. Then all I’ll need to do is finish the cat mesh, a mouse mesh and possibly a mousetrap mesh as well. I’ll then animate the meshes against the Photoshop background, add a catchy mp3 soundtrack and Bob’s your uncle, a great new 3D animation from the Starbright studios. That’s the theory any way.

I’ve got a free account for creating and hosting animations at Deviant Art and I already have one animation, a short 2D film with a naughty bat, hosted there. So as soon as I’m done creating the Witch’s Cat I’ll post it straight to Deviant and embed it in this blog.

The hitch of course is that I’ll be working exclusively in Blender which is something I’ve never done before. It is apparently possible to create very professional 3D animations with Blender, but it’s also a very steep learning curve.

Anyway I got out my 0.5mm propelling pencil and set about creating a backdrop for the hilarious Pixar-quality (just kidding) 3D action. I’m happy with the sketch of the witch’s den I just did – I’d even quite like to move in, I love the medieval look – and the next stage is to start faffing about with it in Photoshop. I’ll post the results of the next steps in this combination 2D, 3D animation experiment as soon as I have them.