John Kunz

Sleeve Machine Scene File Walkthrough

Added 2023-07-13 17:00:20 +0000 UTC

Continuing along the topic of knitting, I wanted to breakdown and share the process of my recent project which uses the same techniques I just covered recently.

You can view the final project on Behance here https://www.behance.net/gallery/173591445/Sleeve-Machine

In this project, I animated a bunch of curves using KineFX, these are then used to drive a Vellum simulation by influencing the constraints of the sim. Finally the knitting technique is applied to the result of the simulation in the most efficient way that I could find (generating the knit curves on a single frame which doesn't require cooking as the timeline is changed and then deforming these curves to match the simulated

Development and process reel https://youtu.be/wvI1Mr--CzE

I also cover my lighting and shading setup with redshift as well as a bit of compositing tips at the end.

Hopefully this helps to see how that knitting technique could be applied to a more visually interesting scene as well as inspire you to think of some other ways to apply the knitting and weaving concepts.

Scene file walkthrough recording https://youtu.be/3f4si3M9svI

The .hip file is attached below as well as a file demonstrating some of the initial dev process scene in the reel and .gifs attached in this post.