A few weeks ago I did a little experimental project with a program I found on Itch.io called Honk.
Not sponsored or anything, just curious as usual.
Here are some videos showing the process.
After part 2 I decided to work on the character some more in Krita and refined the textures and cleaned things up in general (finished result number 4 on the picture above and the picture below).
The developers of an experimental vector based art software called VPaint which is based on a technology called vector graphics complex launched a Kickstarter earlier this month. The technology behind the experimental prototype VPaint was developed by a collaboration of researchers at Inria and the University of British Columbia. VPaint version 1.7 is available as…
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I’ve been told about a new photo sharing web application called Folio.ink founded by Michael Connors which I think might be interesting to readers of this blog. Michael Connors was also the original creator of Morguefile.com Folio.ink allows users to upload images and automatically creates a polished photo gallery housed in a shareable URL—all without…
Over the last few years I have noticed websites offering Illustration packs in mostly flat, hand drawn / doodle and colorful styles celebrating diversity. I thought it worth mentioning here. I think in some cases they could be useful or used as inspiration. When I used to make websites I was always on the lookout…
I had another go with Ebsynth, a non-AI tool (often mistaken as AI) to synthesize an inputted style onto video or animation frames using stylized key frames. It is a tool for digital rotoscope animation. There are limitations to this tool insofar that the keyframes have to match the video frames pretty closely for the…
I’ve discovered a platform called Substack recently and decided to use that for my email newsletter. You can subscribe via email. I’ll be using it like I’ve been using Medium, as a mini blog telling people what I’ve been up to and about updates to this website. I’ve been updating Medium every now and then…