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  • Typewriter Text Revisited Revisited

    This ongoing adventure to create a typewriter text effect has had a lot of twists and turns over the years. Back in 2011 I used Pure Data to achieve this effect. Fast forward to 2019 and I experimented with Kdenlive and Natron before settling on Animation Nodes. In April 2020 update on this I…

  • Blender Animation Workshop – July 25th

    On Saturday July 25th I’ll be delivering an online a Blender workshop for Access Space! The three-hour workshop (13:00 – 16:00) will go through a few basics of using Blender but will mainly focus on making abstract glitchy looping gifs, like the ones that I made for Improviz. Tickets are £15 and can be…

  • OCR to Text to Speech

    For the sixth video in the Design Yourself series the group worked with artist Erica Scourti. For the activity the participants used optical character recognition software (OCR) to generate poetry from their own handwriting and writing (leaflets, signage) found throughout the Barbican building. The next stage in the workshop was going to be to…

  • Seamless Looping Neon Trail in Blender

    I’d like to return to the fifth video in the Design Yourself series to show how i did a glowing neon trail. The video is heavily themed around robots, and if you look in the background you’ll see that it’s actually a circuit board. The circuit diagram was a random one I built using…

  • Typewriter Text Effect Revisited

    For the fifth video in the Design Yourself series I was faced yet again with the task of doing a typewriter text effect. Yay… For each of the videos the participants wrote a poem to go with it. The poems were a really important part of the video so they needed to have a…

  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 9

    Below are a few examples of how you can use FFmpeg’s minterpolate to create artworks with a glitch aesthetic. You can read about how I used it for an artwork in this blog post. You can also grab the source file for these videos here. Give it a try yourself! mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=ds mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=hexbs mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=epzs mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=umh…

  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 8

    Below are a few examples of how you can use FFmpeg’s minterpolate to create artworks with a glitch aesthetic. You can read about how I used it for an artwork in this blog post. You can also grab the source file for these videos here. Give it a try yourself! mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=tss mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=tdls mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=ntss mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=fss…

  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 7

    Below are a few examples of how you can use FFmpeg’s minterpolate to create artworks with a glitch aesthetic. You can read about how I used it for an artwork in this blog post. You can also grab the source file for these videos here. Give it a try yourself! mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bilat:me=hexbs mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bilat:me=epzs mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bilat:me=umh mc_mode=aobmc:me_mode=bilat:me=esa…

  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 6

    Below are a few examples of how you can use FFmpeg’s minterpolate to create artworks with a glitch aesthetic. You can read about how I used it for an artwork in this blog post. You can also grab the source file for these videos here. Give it a try yourself! mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bilat:me=tdls mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bilat:me=ntss mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bilat:me=fss mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bilat:me=ds…