#digitial manipulation

[serpentsillusion]

Hello Tumblr. I give you a zesty Sebastian Sallow age 32. Is this Daddy Sallow? Or is that still Alfie? Lol but why tf is he just as spicy here as he is as a younger self? Sweet baby jeezus. Hide your spouses. This is MR. STEAL YO GIRL. ✨🐍

Engines used: AI Lensa, AI Mirror, PicsArt.

[hereticallyeverafter]

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[energysoda]

Montgomerry Gator 🐊🐊🐊

[dice-here]

This is Captain. He can make options.

[entityoflouie-blog]

Destroy to Recreate!

This world is rotten. We need a savior who destroy for us to recreate... 

[awardsaa]

Hey, sorry to bother but do you have any suggestions for programs or whatever to make campaign posters on? Thank you and thank tou for doing this!

unfortunately we arent the ones making the majority of the campaign content. Firealpaca is a great free tool for digitial art and photo manipulation though! and uhh idk. if u see someone whos piece u thought was cool u can ask them what they used for it? (PLEASE dont harass anyone tho!!)

hopefully youre able to make some stuff of your own, id love to see it :]

[radcontext]

Project 4 Part 4

I’ve been inspired by a music video incorporating an internet series salled Boisvert(1), which is as IMDb puts it “ A surrealist web series concerning depression and isolation”(2). This abstract horror coupled with upbeat energetic music gave me a new idea on how to tackle the animation.

Boisvert creator seems to be Parker Boisvert (a.k.a.  _xreamy_ and _ Boisvert in social media), a (possibly former) illustration student in Minneapolis college of art and design(3), although because of his use of aliases online it makes it not possible to confirm the validity. He is most known for his animations in youtube, which are made in a unique semi-digitial style akin to currently popular analogue-horror genre, incorporate heavily edited real-life footage and horrific audio manipulation. He also makes independant illustrations of his characters in Artstation and other social media(4).

However what really peaked my interest was a video made by user @herne8092 in youtube - a compilation of Boisvert clips and a song I’ve Seen Footage by Death Grips(5). This blend made me want to replicate the energy of the video with my own animation. I’ve been a fan of this particular song for a while and I wish I could use another one as to not completelly copy my reference, however it is honestly the only good one the band has made.

References:

1. _ Boisvert https://www.youtube.com/@_boisvert163

2. IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21365994/

3. Parker Boisvert https://www.mcad.edu/student/parker-boisvert

4. Artstation https://www.artstation.com/boisvert

5. I'VE SEEN FOOTAGE | _ Boisvert x Death Grips https://youtu.be/wJwlZi6J1hY

[ask-de-writer]

To begin with, let us consider the consequences of the use of magic on massive scales and the nature of time itself.

Let us begin with TIME. 

Seems obvious, doesn’t it?  I mean Past, Present and Future.  The only problem with that division of time is that it REQUIRES predestination and is wide open to paradoxes.  The real issue with it lies in that part known as the Future.  If it is fixed, it cannot be changed.  You are stuck, no matter what you do.

Worse, if every action in the Present causes a new line to begin, Cup O Time Noodles, anyone?  At what event scale does a new time line begin?  With each heartbeat or breath?  With each deadly accident avoided, or not?

Thus, Past, Present and Future leads to chaos.

For the purposes of my tales time does still have three parts but they are the Immutable Past, the Plastic Present and the Absolute Instant of the Present.  The Future exists only as a range of mathematical abstractions.  These become reality in the Absolute Instant of the Present.  There follows a short period called the Plastic Present in which things are perceived and reacted to.  As the Plastic Present passes, it becomes the Immutable Past.

This has multiple consequences for the very creation of the whole world of Equestria.   It is obviously a created world.  The Creators I sort of stole from a long gone comic by Digity Demon.  He had Applejack as a Religious Conservative who pities Twilight for her lack of faith in the Creator Titans.

My Equestria was a project of the Creator Titans that all but one of them dropped.  The Titan of Life Creation, who presented herself to De Writer and later to Luna and Celestia as a young pegasus mare named Skyglow, has tried to repair the inherent flaws built into Equestria.

Celestia and Luna jointly are her fix.  They have been given a LIMITED control of the Magic of Creation for the purpose of preserving Equestria as a habitable world. 

Celestia does not control the rising and setting of the sun, though it appears that she does to ponies.  What she actually does is adjust hundreds of factors relating to the planet itself.  These include such things as the rates of rotation of the crust, the core, the strength of magnetic field and the very angle of the axis of the planet.

Luna does a similar service for the moon but includes maintaining the orbital distance, among other things.  The moon keeps trying to orbit in closer and closer until destructive break up at the Roche’s Limit.  The fragments, some huge, would fall in a rain of meteoric destruction.

What makes the world so unstable in the first place?  Magic.

Magic?  Right.  Literally billions of ponies are doing everything from lifting and holding objects, pegassi flying, to harvesting apples.  Apples?  AJ bucks a whole tree and the apples all fall into the baskets!  Tell me that is not magic at work.  Earth pony magic is just not as obvious as a unicorn’s.

So, how does that magic mess up a world?  It comes from somewhere.  For it to work at all, it needs to alter the physical constants that make the rest of the universe work.  Little things like G, the universal gravitational constant.  The strong and weak nuclear forces need to be manipulated.  e, that electronic things need.  Newton’s Laws, anyone?  Seen Twilight, at a couple of hundred kilos tops, flip about a water tank that weighs tonnes?  That is only a few examples.

Any of these things done by one pony alone would make no measurable difference.  Billions of ponies all messing about like that makes for bad news indeed.  Around Equestria G is in a state of constant flux.  It is not alone, either.

That is WHY Celestia and Luna are needed to balance things out!

Pity that they don’t just raise the Sun and Moon.  That would be easy by comparison!

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[scarredfear-blog]

Ralph rA9 Headcanons

rA9 was made by a company named Harlowe Industries. Alongside him, four other androids were successfully created. They were designed to look human in every way, equipped with free will as well as high-tech advancements. rA9 was the last android made before the company went out of business. He had been designed with the ability to interact with all sorts of technology, able to manipulate them as well.

Harlowe Industries was bought out by CyberLife. The androids were taken in for research, their code analyzed to gain information on their free will and wide range of features. They named this free will 'deviancy', since androids were not supposed to be made with the intention of sentience, and attempted to alter rA9's code to study him easier.

Unknown to CyberLife, they ended up implementing a virus instead. It wasn't originally meant to be a virus, but the programmer had made a mistake. A zero instead of a one. Thus, the birth of rA9. The first to awaken other androids.

rA9 left his original body when the virus nearly overloaded it, leaving it intact and ending up within a different android. A CyberLife model. The virus came with him, embedded in his programming even as he tried to run from it. He ended up body-hopping a few times, only to settle in a WR600 unit a few years later.

All the while, he had been infecting others with the virus. Fragments of it had invaded digitial channels, so that even interfacing could lead to deviancy if it was done long enough or at the right time. rA9's touch could immediately transfer deviancy to any android. Traces of the virus was everywhere within technology, unbeknownst to androids.

As for rA9, deviancy is like a beast inside of him, a virus eating him alive. It grows and spreads within him, causing his body to fracture as a result in due time. The CyberLife bodies had been abandoned due to them breaking apart, and now the WR600 model is starting to crack. Particularly on his face, though his body has begun to break apart as well.

Ever since fleeing his original body, rA9 has adopted the name 'Ralph'. Due to body-hopping, he lacks a sense of identity and refers to himself in the third-person to keep his individuality intact. He has spent years hiding away, since just his touch can turn an android deviant. However, this ability was strongest when he was in his original body. It is weakest when first entering a body, but becomes a threat again as the body begins breaking down.

[ashesjustfall]

Something a little different from the usual - my final photoshop assignment from class. Digital painting for a character. For this I took a drawing I had done years ago and then digitially painted and manipulated it until it was finished. Swipe to see my original sketch! - @cmustudiocity @cmucollege #cmucollege #photoshop #digitalpainting #digitaldrawing #digitalart #drawing #sketch #art #painting #toronto #artist #torontoartist #charachter #characterdesign #characterart #photoshop_cc (at Downtwon, Toronto) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxz-Gq3hY-y/?igshid=idggeo85rp9p

[gigikiersten]

Swan  Song  by Gigi Kiersten  (via Swan Song | Gigi Kiersten)

[elliemaemoreing-blog]

Project Approach: Style Experimentation 05.08.2019

The visual implementation of my oracle deck will need to have certain elements and key features, and as I am a Multi-Media Digitial Artist and Designer, the core process of my project will be to create 3 separate visual approaches to each card intention.

THE GOAL: To create a visual communication tool. The symbols, colours, visual elements and symbolism in the cards need to express and provoke a directed feeling, idea, concept and/or association to the inherent meaning of each card.

The key challenge of this process is experimenting in regards to which design style and implication of key elements, symbols and colours will invoke the desired association based on the visual imagery and the style alone.  

THE STYLES:

Illustration

Freedom of stylisation

Creation of symbolism 

Full control over colour, line, shape and texture

Unlimited capacity to implement an envisioned design

Most labour intensive 

Photo Collage

Creative approach to photo layering creating new symbols and images 

Using pre-made content and manipulating it into something new

Use of organic and experimental design

Limited to stock images and textures I can find

Photo Collage + Illustration 

Using elements of both to create something completely new

Combines both positives for both approaches 

May confuse the design process

[drone-reference]

C3: A Poly-Modal Experience This project is a hybrid media project that combines quad-copter time-based media with a Unity3D environment to comment and reflect on the relationship of natural and manmade environments from a unique perspective. The music that is accompanying the performance is an original song to help carry and set a tone for what is being shown on screen. My intention is to display another perspective that cannot be seen from the horizon but from an unreachable vantage point. The Unity3D scene builds the parallel from the virtual world and the natural world, following and evolving the progression of the song. This is a recording of my live performance at the Digital Worlds Institute where I am manipulating multiple parameters that are being displayed from all five projectors. This was my capstone project that I completed for my Bachelors of Arts in Digital Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, Digitial Worlds Institute. All the footage was shot on my DJI Phantom 3 Professional The song was created with the help from Kane Pour, Diana Salsa, and Trenton Ropp using Ableton. The Unity3D scene was created utilizing multiple different open source assets created by Keijiro Takahashi and I also received some programing help from Nicholas Saunders.