This was made in Blender using grease pencil with geometry nodes :)
Normally, grease pencil objects don't cast or react to shadow, so I would have had to render and export the animation separately and place it into 3D space. But with geometry nodes, it allows me draw anything and convert them into 3D mesh in real time.
You can do a lot of cool stuff with grease pencil geometry nodes, you can go watch this video on how to do it, if you'd like
16 frame shooting star animation.
January 2022-September 2024
Needlepoint
Frames from my shooting star gif. 16 frames total. Each frame is 8x6.5 inches on a 10” mesh. Designed and animated in photoshop and needlepointed by me. I started drafting this 1/14/22 and finished animating it 9/25/24. It took approximately two years and eight months to finish. This is one of the largest projects I’ve ever worked on and I’m very happy with how it turned out.
Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.
But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.
This is done in live action as well using another person's hands in front of the camera.
Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.
“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”
I've posted a new illustration to my Patreon! Full size JPG, PSD and video files can be downloaded according to the amount of support. https://www.patreon.com/satoshi_matsuura
This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.
Will also have this in my store but for EU citizens who only want this specific print, it's advisable to get it on my inprnt as I currently won't be able to ship to a lot of EU countries.
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