Confessions of a researchaholic

November 17, 2024

Fallen leaves

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 8:12 pm
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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 11, 2024

Acorns

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 8:29 pm
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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).


November 10, 2024

Chewie visit weekend 1 of 2

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 8:10 pm
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The dog slept a lot and thus remained stationary for a good drawing subject. I would like to capture his waking moments as well but still drawing live instead of from photos.


https://www.behance.net/gallery/212212201/Chewie10Nov2024

October 25, 2024

Golden berries and blue gum-ball

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:39 pm
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I noticed this interesting color combination of golden berries and a blue gum-ball in a bento box and decided to draw it.


October 11, 2024

Sleep infinity

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:29 pm
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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

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:22 am
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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

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 5:15 pm
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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

September 3, 2024

Side effect of wearing company t-shirt in public

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 6:27 pm
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The conductor on my evening train came to me and joked that “Adobe should lower the price”.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/186107513/PortraitsMotoGStylus/modules/1176410825

August 30, 2024

Cupcake wars – virtual decoration

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 5:36 pm
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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

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