Category: Art attacks

AI image #1

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They opened up WALL-E  (2 images a day) for free Chat GPT users so I thought I would break down and try an image generator:

“Generate an image of a calico cat at the helm of a 38 foot sloop on the BC coast with a sunset in the background”


Attempt #2

“Generate an image of a long-haired calico cat at the helm of a 38 foot Hunter with a dodger and a bimini see from the port side on the BC coast with a sunset in the background”

 

Not a sailboat I would want to go out on …. lol….

Photo…shop

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My  illustrious son was trying to do something nice for a friend and needed to make some decals for his P-40 Warhawk. Seems said friend liked the Pokemon Purrloin, so it occurred to him that he could put the two together. Or more specifically I could put the two together for him.

 

This is what he sent me:

Open photoOpen photo

 

And this is what I made:

I think I did ok, if I do say so myself.

For those uninformed of you, the P40 was the plane the famed Flying Tigers flew in China and they had great gnashy shark’s teeth painted on them. The Flying Tiger logo (just behind the cockpit) was created by Walt Disney himself:

Instagram This Week

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#31daysofart I did an art inventory. It seems have managed to replace 99% of the art in our house with original works that we have collected over the years. And I decided I would share them, one a day, during the month of January. I will try an include links to the artists if I can. First up are my pride and joys. I bought them in 2001 from dear friend and they always have pride of place on my house—I can stare at them for hours and they speak to me differently every time...which is my definition of "art." Figures Chalk — Carol Dragich-Bishop www.dragichdesign.com #day1 #art #artists #artwork #beautiful #yeg #yegart #figures #chalkdrawing
#31daysofart I did an art inventory. It seems have managed to replace 99% of the art in our house with original works that we have collected over the years. And I decided I would share them, one a day, during the month of January. I will try an include links to the artists if I can.First up are my pride and joys. I bought them in 2001 from dear friend and they always have pride of place on my house—I can stare at them for hours and they speak to me differently every time…which is my definition of “art.” Figures
Chalk — Carol Dragich-Bishop www.dragichdesign.com

#day1
#art #artists #artwork #beautiful #yeg #yegart
#figures #chalkdrawing

Done. Had to wait to this morning to get a pic of the finished product. #magpie #stainedglass #shortdays #glass #glassart #cornerpiece #wing #corvid
Done. Had to wait to this morning to get a pic of the finished product.
#magpie #stainedglass #shortdays #glass #glassart #cornerpiece #wing #corvid
Cut and ground. It’s time to start foiling! #stainedglass #xmasproject #cornerpiece
Cut and ground. It’s time to start foiling!
#stainedglass #xmasproject #cornerpiece

Instagram This Week

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Back to the lead! I am going to try to do a smaller (8 in) round piece in traditional lead. #drawingaugust #stainedglass #badlands #stainedglasspattern
Back to the lead! I am going to try to do a smaller (8 in) round piece in traditional lead. #drawingaugust #stainedglass #badlands #stainedglasspattern
My first “found objects” featuring glass, seashells and broken pottery from BC’s coast. - - #stainedglass #foundobjects #beautifulbc #copperfoil #beaches #broughtons
My first “found objects” featuring glass, seashells and broken pottery from BC’s coast. –
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#stainedglass #foundobjects #beautifulbc #copperfoil #beaches #broughtons
Desolation Sound in Homfray Channel. I think I will make this one :-) - #drawingaugust #stainedglasspattern #beautifulbc
Desolation Sound in Homfray Channel. I think I will make this one 🙂
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#drawingaugust #stainedglasspattern #beautifulbc
Been listenin’ to the The Three Musketeers #drawingaugust
Been listenin’ to the The Three Musketeers #drawingaugust
In the end a bit too geometric for my tastes and the math would have to be more precise. But it might be fun to do... #drawingaugust #stainedglasspattern
In the end a bit too geometric for my tastes and the math would have to be more precise. But it might be fun to do… #drawingaugust #stainedglasspattern
That time when you got the proportions wrong and just couldn’t fix it. Still a good starting point for a proper #stainedglasspattern - - #drawingaugust #dancers
That time when you got the proportions wrong and just couldn’t fix it. Still a good starting point for a proper #stainedglasspattern –
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#drawingaugust #dancers
Todays’s #drawingaugust: an exercise in designing for cut lines. Only a couple of tough cuts in this one I think. But the piece would have to be pretty big to make the “up” work. - - #stainedglasspattern #7up #stainedglass #suncatcher
Todays’s #drawingaugust: an exercise in designing for cut lines. Only a couple of tough cuts in this one I think. But the piece would have to be pretty big to make the “up” work. –
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#stainedglasspattern #7up #stainedglass #suncatcher

Even more After Effects

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I am still screwing around with After Effects and, to a certain degree, Premiere trying to find the line between interesting and schlocky. Editing turns out to be the hardest part: keeping just enough elements to make your point and eliminating anything that serves no purpose.

This is a new/simpler version of an intro for Never for Ever videos:

 

Then I started working on something for Nanaimo Yacht Charters as learning project. I think it still needs some editing. The first is an intro. It runs 8 seconds but the one time I used it in a video I ended up cutting it to 6. The second is an outro, and I like it a lot more for its intended purpose.

 

 

And here is the first complete promo video I did for NYCSS.

After Effects redux

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I  need to get back into the habit of retaining and retraining skills. So apropos of that I decided to revisit some of the video I shot while sailing last year in anticipation of the coming season. I have picked up a SJCam4000 (a GoPro knock-off) for doing some more filming so if I am going to be a big YouTube star I will need to get some fancy-ass graphics going.

That meant I needed to take a look at Adobe After Effects again. (Here is the last time I screwed with it.) Essentially After Effects is sort of the Photoshop of the video world. It allows one to do all sorts of fancy effects before moving the composition into Premiere or iMovie for the final cuts.

After a day’s work I didn’t end up doing anything fancy but it did get my mostly-rusted-shut skills a bit looser. So this is the AE composition (just the graphics) laid over a small video clip. I am thinking of using it, or something similar, as the intro to any new videos I make.

 

The real time consumer was getting all my files in shape. It’s a whole new game of file prep and organization…

 

postscript

An animated gif version..