So here is the layout for my Animated Lamp,
The plan is to have the lamp jump from the bookcase ,
onto the ball, bounce off and then somersault landing on the stool taking a bow .
Might be a bit ambitious , but if you don’t push yourself then how can you improve lol.
Carrying on ,
Converted the grease pencil lamp to 3D Geometry,
added a yellow sun lamp , I had to fiddle with the default settings
to get a recognisable shadow. Dropped the strength down to 1.5.
Then rendered with cycles.
Follow my progress …
Well I’m progressing through the lectures.
It was interesting when the difference between eevee and cycles rendering times.
EEVEE 4mins and cycles 40mins. I rendered my bowling animation in cycles in under 5 mins.
Certainly goes to show the power of the newer graphics card . I have RTX 2080Super.
Anyway here is the latest render , where Ive added in a bulb using emmision material and an area light.
This is impressive! 
Working on the Lamp Base.
Decided to go with something similar to an antique lamp base , i saw last week , But now cant find lol.
Continuing my Animated lamp quest (sounds better than Journey lol)
Ive added the steel lamp pivot/stem. Im really loving the Green texture , think Im going to have it as my main lamp colour. Also added a wood texture to my book case and inset the shelves.(not that you can see that from this picture)
Carrying on with the lamp.
Sharpened the edges up , added in a little bit of geometry to act as a coin tray on the base 
Did some trials changing the render settings with results that differed from the vod.
Using Blender 2.91
Tile size Sampling Reslolution De-Noise Render time.
512x512 128 1920x1080 (100%) None 73secs
512x512 128 1920x1080 (50%) None 66.2secs
512x512 32 1920x1080 (50%) None 16.4secs
512x512 32 1920x1080 (50%) Y (NLM) 28.5secs
16x16 128 1920x1080 (100%) None 11.2secs
16x16 128 1920x1080 (100%) Y(NLM) 29.5secs
Best time vs image quality came at
64x64 128 1920x1080 (50%) Y (NLM) 4.3secs
Tile size of 32x32 was 1/4 second slower which on a 300 frame animation translates to an extra 75 seconds.
Things are progressing on well.
Added the lower arms and the pivot point.
Took 5.5 seconds to render , just adding those arms in increased render time by approx 20%
One thing Ive noticed is that everything just seems a little darker. Ive moved the Area lights in and even added a spot light to illuminate the lamp . Might just be my imagination lol. What do you think ???
Ive just realised my initial lamp bases were rendered whilst on a wooden texture block
The last on was on the dark place floor.
So for comparisson, Ive textured the floor with the same wooden texture and it looks bright again 
Sometimes it is better to move a lamp away and then increase the wattage.
Light strength diminishes at distance. So closer by, makes all other parts relative darker
Things a moving along well.
Adding the armatures and parenting the parts.
I had an issue with the two lower arms mirroring along the x instead of the y axis,
So I ended up with a Y shape. Easy fix , just changed the axis in the mirror modifier
Things a flying now :-), Made the upper arm , couldn’t live with my self if I didn’t model the pin on which it pivots lol.
My only issue with it at the moment is , I think the lower and upper arms need to be longer , as they dont seem to be in scale with the base. It may all look better with the Lamp Shade on at the end.
If not I reckon ill have to Extrude the arms and them move the armature ends to the new correct locations (???) .
Anyway here is what I have so far.
Yes, a good solution. Better do it in this stage of the project.
Thanks for the reply @FedPete, After considering and measuring a couple of lamp at home , I found that the length of the arms were either the same as the base diameter or in one case 25% longer. I decided for what little id get from this extra work , I’m going to leave the arms as they are.
Okay onto the addition of the lamp shade.
One thing I noticed when creating the shade, the statistics shown at the bottom of the screen were the stats for the ‘whole’ lamp model. so where the VoD was showing 4000-6000 triangles I was showing 60000 ish triangles. The only way I could work out the stats of the lamp shade was to ‘hide’ everything else in the viewport. Is there something I can do to show just the selected items stats ??
Secondly , I wanted to colout the inside of the lamp shade white , but cant seem to select the faces, hopefully this is something thats covered in the future
Okay so all that siad here is my latest render.
So have added in the solidifier modifier to the lamp shade. I probably could of worked it out myself if Id read the modifier list properly lol. Anyway I decided to add the emmision bulb to the scene. Still not able to select the inside of the shade , Wondering if I need to convert the curve to a mesh ?? Like we did for the base.
Having an issue while making the bulb holder portion of the lamp.
Ive removed the unwanted vertices but when I try to extrude the edge on the z-axis it went off at an odd angle. I have the same setting as shown in the VoD .
In the end I went back to a previous save, followed the steps and again, similar thing happened, but this time I found I could extrude the bulb holder on the y axis.
Not really sure what’s going on here
I do not know how you made the shade. But you need probable apply a modifier!
Always begin with gathering examples, references before modeling real world objects.
I use numpad ‘/’ to isolate objects.
In the newish Blender versions there are more options to see more data about you model/project. I never used it so can’t recall how to see this.
