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Found this image on my phone - it was one iteration of a project in which I was using a procedural technique to model the face. The further backstory is that I was inspired by not having yet received access to Midjourney closed beta last year

Excited for the California College of the Arts fashion show for the class of 2023!

Feeling like I’ve been in a creative wasteland lately. Understandable. Sought solace in texting a robot who makes pictures, but felt a queasy dissonance at being dazzled by creations that ultimately were not really mine. So here is a quick model that is far from human

Playing with displacement to augment the avatar face

the immediate etiquette for something most people didn’t know existed before the pandemic, requesting video to be on when eye contact isn’t even possible - maybe if you all stare at the camera you might catch the others eyes in your peripheral vision

Maybe it’s the virus, hyper aware of everything you touch, everywhere you walk, what you’re breathing out with your words

Here’s latest. It’s been a month since I’ve been able to do a video - been deep in the weeds working on several projects. This was a quick render pulling elements from a bigger project I’m working on

Work in progress

NVIDIA Research Turns 2D Photos Into 3D Scenes in the Blink of an AI blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/0…

Here is a still of the motion blur plaid outfit

Patchwork of plaids created by motion blurring photos and blending for the warp and weft (audio: Wankers United - Hords of Khan)

Still shot from my latest video. The hair is a blend of particle system, modeled hair, plus scans of real hair