Animated some leaves over a photo I took of a package of fallen leaves collected by a worker whose process I observed while having lunch on a high floor balcony the other day.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/212799231/FallenLeaves
November 17, 2024
November 11, 2024
Acorns
Process: paint one acorn in Adobe Fresco from which create custom brush in Adobe Capture and paint back many acorns in Adobe Fresco.
Inspiration: witnessed the prodigious quantity of acorns on the ground and wondered about its potential as a food source (edible by humans after leaching out the tannins).
October 11, 2024
Sleep infinity
I was trying to keep my (interactive) run-ai job running instead of being “succeeded” and realized that I could use “sleep infinity” as the entry command.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/210033783/SleepInfinity
October 9, 2024
Accidental art from a broken train station display
Saw this broken train station display showing intriguing patterns caused by the interactions between the surrounding light and display structure, and got some inspiration to create abstract art from it.
September 4, 2024
Cupcake wars – motion graphics
This is an experiment to create motion graphics from the original poster image (in the event email), which, upon looking at it, prompted me to want to animate the cupcake topping.
I started by twirling the topping via Motionleap, selecting the candy particles via Photoshop and animating them via Fresco Motion, followed by generative stylization via a comfyUI workflow (using the MotionLeap + Fresco video as control and its first frame as style input for IP-adapter). The challenge is that the output background won’t be completely black/transparent (which hopefully will be fixed soon in standard generative video workflows), and thus for now I did some masking and keying in After Effects as a workaround for proper compositing.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/207181031/CupcakeWars
August 30, 2024
Cupcake wars – virtual decoration
There was an employee event for cupcake decoration competition on Thursday afternoon. I took a few bases, which seemed healthier than the toppings, and decorated them virtually via company products.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/206803773/CupcakeWars
August 23, 2024
Fleeting moments
While driving back home on August 22, 2024 evening around 8:30 PM, I saw this impressive pale blue sky with dark clouds. I did a quick drawing the next evening and planned to refine it later. Then I realized that there are many fleeting moments in life that were better captured without further delays.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/206362211/ImpressionOf22Aug2024EveningAround8PM
August 16, 2024
Irregular tortillas
During July 23 2024 lunch time, I saw the company cafeteria staff trying to fix the tortillas machine that was doling out irregularly shaped portions which I commented to be still edible and uniquely artistic.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/205732405/IrregularTortillas
August 4, 2024
Dream this morning
Arrived at the airport too late, with the boarding pass showing “too late” instead of the gate information.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/206373601/BoardingPassTooLate