Kat Gusarova
ANIMATOR & LAYOUT Artist
Kat Gusarova Showreel 2024
Shot Breakdown:
00:03: Repositioned the flight paths for both Zym and Zubeia, making it so Zym is flying in front of her instead of behind her. Used various in-house tools to adjust the camera so that it follows Zym smoothly without any jitters that occur from the characters and camera being on different frame rates, while still adhering to the show’s style guide.
00:14: Re-timed and re-animated Stella’s tugging on the door so that she only gives it one big pull. Re-timed camera to accommodate the re-timed animation. Fixed crashing on the tail as Stella rolls back. Fixed crashing on Stella’s specular highlights.
00:18: Re-animated the camera move and used in-house tools to get rid of jittering. Re-positioned jars. Re-timed and adjusted the animation for Stella’s jump, walk and interaction with the jars. Fixed crashing on Stella’s specular highlights.
00:25: Fixed posing and animation of both the map and the pencil. Re-posed and re-animated Akiyu’s tentacle hair to fix crashing.
00:34: Adjusted lipsync and timing for Thunder. Re-animated his beard to fix crashing.
00:39: Fully re-animated the boat in this scene to give it more weight.
00:41: Created the layout and fully animated Labrat, Otto and the bike in this shot.
00:45: Created the layout and fully animated the kitten triplets in this shot.
00:58: Created the layout and fully animated Boomer and her owner in this shot.
01:03: Created the layout and fully animated Zsa-Zsa in this shot.
01:09: Created the layout and fully animated all characters in vehicles in this shot.