Twinklebox Textures

A work in progress selection of screengrabs:

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Boy Portrait

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This was created using Adobe Photoshop with a few custom brushes. The picture of the boy was from one of my favourite magazines… The absurb and eclectic Permanent Food.

Particular Colour Sketch

I love Trapcode Particular… I decided a while ago that I wasn’t going to use it for the butterfly on  ‘A Siege of Colour’ as I felt the  butterfly element required more control within the 3d environment than Adobe After Effects, a primarily 2d package,  could offer. I did however continue testing Particular as it might be useful in post to embelish the butterfly element or compliment it in some way. After time the testing gradually became playing, as you begin to understand the controls more and more it becomes more like an artists tool and you can pretty much just throw particles around like paint. Well anyway, it’s a lot of fun.

This video is a reletively simple setup of particular but has got me quite excited about developing some more sketchbook videos using music to drive a procedural setup. I’ve got a lot of things in mind but it’s sometimes best just to see where the animation takes you so I’m trying to not really think about it too much. Anyway… As fun as it is playing with particles I feel like I’m straying from my main project a little so I should probably get back to the lamp.

The music is a short section from ‘Green Grass of Tunnel’ by Múm.

Textures…

A little Friday night texture work for the animation gods:

That should keep them fed til Monday.

Painterly Trails

Some more work on the trails from the butterfly… A little more solid and 3dimensional. They look great as stills but could be troublesome if they intersect the wings. I’ve done some video tests but not rendered any out yet. They’re actually very subtle when animated.

I think that the answer lies in a mash-up between the particle and the solid trail… I feel like we’re dancing towards a conclusion. Maybe I should name the butterfly.