Spencer Magnusson

Mundane to Epic

February 2024

A fun stylized animation in collaboration with animator John Sherry. An entry into the SLC Animation Expo's (now Sketch2Screen) "Mundane to Epic" competition.

Rendered in Blender Eevee, edited in Davinci Resolve. Anime effects also generated completely in Blackmagic Fusion, others like the action lines were generated in Blender and then composited into Fusion.

I created the environment completely in Blender. I used more realistic textures to have it echo how many animes have more "realistic" backgrounds since they can spend more time on a single frame background than animated characters.

I created the props, namely the TV dinner and microwave. I even did a PBR shaded test for the microwave. Black edge lines were created with Blender freestyle.

Cel-shaded CG render of a microwave dinner, complete with dino nuggets, macaroni and cheese, corn, and pudding Cel-shaded CG render of a microwave Realistic CG render of a microwave, with fingerprints on the buttons