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This was inspired by a short film created by Andre Silva. Watch the great short film here.

And its a line from a T.S. Elliot poem.

No offense to the original posters words!

Doodling a character for an animation. Little Indian girl, still needs a name.


(I’m rusty with people and faces, so this was a good exercise)

Other doodles:
<– Mole men in the office
<– Large owls
<–Small owls
<– Gerbil powered solar system model

And this is my 3d assignment for tomorrow, playing with dynamics. It’s nothin’ special, but it’s not a big assignment:
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Monday, 25 Feb 2008 - Yesterday I got around to finishing up the project of swapping out the algorithm that I was using for the previous two “pure color” transformations for one that I think actually works.  I ran into a couple of unexpected issues, but finally got it squared away.  The following animation shows the results of 320 small transformative steps using the new algorithm.  I really prefer how you can tell that it’s behaving in a more understandable way based on the colors that you see.  (Also, it has red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white to choose from each time it colors a rectangle over some pixels.)

more animation drawings.

http://flickr.com/photos/23386160@N08/2289977740/

This is sadly less different from yesterday’s effect than I was hoping.  It is larger and longer and allows the destructive algorithm to proceed much further, but it’s kind of just more of the same.

I also modified the algorithm for determining the “pure” color so that it’s more flexible and works right, but it isn’t reflected here.  I have an idea for my next iterative image mod that will base the size and/or placement of the next rectangle to modify on the attributes of the color of the current rectangle prior to the current mod.  But I’m not sure how that’ll work.

Today I got to work on my image-manipulation suite — Doink, but just a little.  I altered the checkerboard-generation routine to create a checkerboard and then alter the size of the checks.  (I’ve only played with reduction but I wrote the math so that it should enlarge them too — so that’ll be fun to hack around with when I get the chance.)  Then, I fed the size-reduced, semi-random, small checks into the code I wrote last week that isolates primary-color trends (where “primary” means any of: RGBCMY, y’know, “primary”) so that it just punctuates the image with rectangles colored in with the underlying prominent color.  Then I did it over and over and kind of had fun watching the change.  And it occurred to me that I could make that into an animation.

But, uh, I don’t know how.  So I spent the time to figure out how to do that with the ancient version of Photoshop/ImageReady I have at home (I ran out of time at work to figure out how to do it with The GIMP).  So here I am displaying two things: the animation of 64 steps applying this exact same Doink to an image and watching the effects accrue, and then the first three frames pulled out just to demonstrate slowly what it’s doing.  (I did this so small because I thought the animation would be huge — now I with I’d kept it at 500px wide.  Next time…)

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Today I made a song and then subsequently a video based on my long-standing idea of buying my own island in the South Pacific, electing myself president for life and using sand dollars as currency. If you haven’t already guessed, this utopia shall be called Randyland.

This animated valentine’s day card goes out to YOU!

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One of my 101.1001 tasks is to learn flash. I guess it’s like photoshop and illustrator, the basics are straightforward to learn, once you grasp the toolbar system and understand the concept of layers and timeline. But with such a complex program, to get any good takes a long time.So I followed an informative video that shows how to create a simple animation with falling text effects in flash. Okay, people who know flash will laugh at how kindergarten-level it is but hey, I gotta start somewhere. Anyway it was fun.(link, in case the embed code didn’t work.)embedded by Embedded Video

 

Han Solo had a dream…

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more work for an animation i’m (gradually) working on.

that’s all, folks.

http://flickr.com/photos/23386160@N08/2259051665/

(p.s. if anyone could let me know how to make a link to my flickr page i would greatly appreciate it. i’ve been just pasting the address, but that doesn’t seem to be working. and it’s starting to piss me off.)

Well, I finally downloaded all 902MBs of X-Code, setup the pre-release of openFrameworks I got hold of and started messing around with that. I made a crazy animation of giant flashing color changing circles. I was hoping to incorporate some spastic text animation, but I couldn’t figure out how to get OF to reference the proper ttf files and gave up for the evening.

Anyways, if you are on a Mac, here is The Simple Stupid Crazy Circles App. Hit “ESC” to quit.

I’ve revised the animatic and storyboard for my 11 second club entry - it’s here if you want to take a look.

This was inspired by nothing.
(Well maybe the book “The Hidden Messages of Water” and the song we sang as children. “Words can never hurt me..”. )

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Today I made a time-lapse animation of my enthralling day at work using the time-lapse camera I made yesterday. I also made a song called “Work Work Work Work” about my days working for a user-generated content website. Sometimes it’s tiring dealing with lowest echelons of internet users all day long, but I have to just keep virtually smiling at them even if I’m just shifting in my seat waiting to go home.

(Sorry for the delay, my internet crapped out last night.)

Unfortunately I couldn’t embed this (stupid wordpress!) so hop over to YouTube if you would like to take a look at my storyboard for the 11 second club - now with dialogue!

Today I drew out rough storyboards/thumbnails for the animation I’m working on for this month’s 11 second club competition. Tomorrow I’ll put it into a little animatic with the dialogue - at the moment I imagine it’s all a bit meaningless!

hula projection

i created this sketch yesterday and projected it onto a set of boxes i made on day 1. some crappety pics of the installation can be found on that same page.

click here to launch the swf and see the animation.

it’s not real deep. but it served the purpose of the excercize- it’s a stretch for me to think of flat, 2d media living in 3 dimensional space, so this was kind of fun to put together.

p.s.
anyone know how to embed a swf in a post? having the damdest time- my object tags get wiped out and because i have a short embedded video clip exporting to flv drops the hula movie.