Pineapple People

Software

• Blender

Overview
A looping 3D animation that I created as a personal project to test if I could use Blender to make a dynamic illustration in a 2D-painterly style.

Breakdown
The textures are mostly procedural using a custom node-based shader, applied on top of very simple underlying geometry. I used Blender’s Grease Pencil to draw in the stylistic marks and tiny grasses. Outlines were added using the Solidify modifier. For the looping animation, I rigged and hand-animated the pineapple characters, used “Copy Rotation” constraints for the foliage, and applied geometry nodes for the floating particles. The smoke is animated using displacement modifiers driven by animated empties. The final animation was rendered directly from Blender, with no additional compositing or post-processing.