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Erik Vandergrift

June 2025

Knit Studios Showreel

Overview: I'm the co-founder of Knit Studios, where we create, design, and implement digital products for business growth. I created a showreel that highlights the projects we've done.

My Role: Animator

Overview: I'm the co-founder of Knit Studios, where we create, design, and implement digital products for business growth. I created a showreel that highlights the projects we've done.

My Role: Animator

Objective

What do we want to highlight

What my co-founder and I discussed:

Making it understandable on our value.
Showcase our services.
Highlight our projects throughout the year.

What my co-founder and I discussed:

Making it understandable on our value.
Showcase our services.
Highlight our projects throughout the year.

Strategy

Storyboarding the visuals

I started designing out each scene in adobe illustrator, including text describing each transition and motion that will be displayed in the scene.

Ideation

Animating each scene

This was my first large animated composition, I've had to pivot a couple of scenes that did not work as I'd hope.

Here's an example scene, I 3D modeled the phones, but realized these objects took up a lot of storage.

This was my first large animated composition, I've had to pivot a couple of scenes that did not work as I'd hope.

Here's an example scene, I 3D modeled the phones, but realized these objects took up a lot of storage.

To pivot, I modeled a 3D laptop instead, which helped bring the total storage down for the composition.

Outcomes

An animated visual, utilizing storytelling

This was my first larger animated video I've created, and I'm very proud with the product released. This has taught me a lot about storytelling, animation, and transitions.

Final Animation