Confessions of a researchaholic

2021-12-08

Happy gardening

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:11 am
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The mood of this motion graphics was inspired by this even though I decided not add the sound track in the end.

2021-12-04

Manhole

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 5:54 pm
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I have seen a few cases that when the weather was cold in San Francisco, street folks stationed their bodies on top of manhole covers for warmth.

2021-11-29

After a circus

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:38 pm
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This motion drawing is inspired by a girl holding a bundle of balloons at the end of the circus show that I saw the day before.
The animation export gave me a little bit of unexpected trouble due to very high spatial resolution (4K+) caused by importing an earlier vector drawing from Ai.

2021-11-25

Visual impression of a druggie

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:48 pm
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A few years back while walking to work from San Jose Diridon station I saw a guy sitting on the ground jerking his head with eyes and mouth wide open, in some drug-induced trance.
This is an attempt to depict what I saw that day.

2021-11-21

Judy Chicago smoke performance

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:50 pm
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I visited the de Young Museum for the first time to see the Judy Chicago retrospective.
She has worked on a very diverse set of mediums, such as drawings, paintings, glasses, ceramics, fabrics, smokes, and her messages are quite clear/direct compared to other modern artists’.

2021-11-17

Drawing a pair of boots from memory

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:39 pm
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The boots in the first drawing look like being made of some hard materials (e.g., wood) so I drew another version (over the previous rough outlines) with softer materials (like leather or cloth).

2021-11-09

Scratches

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:48 pm
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This is the other side of this earlier drawing.

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