Sarah's Sketchbook: September 2018

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Newest Animation Reel!

Sarah Satrun's Animation Reel 2018 from Satrun Twins on Vimeo.

Here's my animation reel that includes the newest Lucky Charms unicorn commercial! Most of our work the past few years have been under non-disclosure agreements, so it's great to finally be able to share an updated animation reel! (Other jobs include corporate videos, which are highly confidential.)

Animation is a collaborative effort, so here is a list of exactly what I did for each shot. Unless otherwise noted, I created the character animation on these and others did the compositing and effects.

Shot List:

1. My Little Pony Twilight Sparkle: Animated in Toon Boom Harmony.

2. Ugly Mutt: Animated in Flash

3. Nick Hurdle: Rotoscope animation animated off live action in Toon Boom Harmony

4. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life: Assistant animation in Photoshop

5. Nick Hurdle: Rotoscope animation animated off live action in Toon Boom Harmony

6. Trix kid: Animated on paper

7. Smart Max guy sequence: Animated in Toon Boom Harmony

8. Fly Away: Animated in After Effects

9. Personal animation: Animated in Toon Boom Harmony

10. Corporate animation: Animated in Toon Boom Harmony

11. The Awesomes: Animated in Toon Boom Harmony

12. Ugly Mutt: animated in Flash

13. Chicken animation: Animated in Photoshop

14. Corporate animation: Animated in Toon Boom Harmony

15. Nick Skate: Rotoscope animation animated off live action in Toon Boom Harmony

16. Nick Hurdle: Rotoscope animation animated off live action in Toon Boom Harmony

17. Kid Cuisine: Traditionally animated and colored in Harmony, layouts to final with another animator. Assistants helped with final lines

18. Lucky Charms: Unicorn: Traditionally animated, cleaned up, and colored the unicorn in Harmony. Two assistants helped with the final lines. Catherine animated Lucky, and I helped on some of his cleanup.

I also updated my bio and thought I would share here:

Sarah Satrun is a Chicagoland illustrator and animator who specializes in hand drawn and digital 2D animation with thirteen years experience working for a variety of studios and clients, bringing ideas to life. Some of the animation projects include the intro to Middle School: Worst Years of my Life, Sesame Studio’s The New Neighbors, Seth Meyer’s The Awesomes, a Celtic concert, Mearra~ Selkie from the Sea, which aired across the country on PBS, and commercials such as Lucky Charms, Trix, and My Little Pony. She has also contributed sequential art for comics Aw Yeah Comics issue #12, Ladies Night Anthology: Sisters, and most recently Ed Siemienkowicz‘s graphic memoir, Fucking 40.

Outside of animation, Sarah enjoys creating heartwarming artwork that is often described as empowering, whimsical, and appealing. She travels to different comic cons across the Midwest and beyond where she and her twin sister are known as “The Satrun Twins.”
Her skills include communicating well with other team members, hitting tight deadlines, prioritizing workloads, working quickly between different art and animation programs, and most importantly, keeping clients happy. Whether working independently or in a team, Sarah brings passion and energy to each job, and is always looking for the newest challenge.

Lucky Charms Unicorn Commercials!

Catherine and I worked on the newest Lucky Charms commercial. It felt SO GREAT to go back to hand drawn animation! So many talented artists worked on this in a tight schedule. Viewers typically have no idea how much time and talent goes into these commercials! Hopefully we'll get to do more hand drawn commercials this upcoming year.

On this first one, we worked on cleanup on the last scene as well as helping coworkers with any technical questions. The great thing about working at a small studio is that it's truly a team effort, and everyone helps each other out!

On this one, Catherine and I animated Lucky and the unicorn. Two coworkers helped on the final lines:

Friday, September 14, 2018

New Animation Reel! 2018

Sarah Satrun: Animation Reel August 2018