zach's old animations and new visual art, updated every 25 to 60 days

I like it when people share them, too, and I like the way you share. You’re a gem, ZS.

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just isolating it so it's easy to scroll past for people who might barf

xpost

< hardcore

<3 hardcore

messing around with some iridescent gold acrylic paint. it's really weird. unless you gloop it on heavily, it's terribly thin and transparent. not in a good way. don't know wtf is going on with that one so far but it's saturday night

https://i.imgur.com/JFzVUuS.jpg

i had to delete earlier FREAK OUT! gif because it was the wrong version. here is the proper version:
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god dammit, that was STILL the wrong one. oh well. freak out over.

https://media.giphy.com/media/QBAkTtkFyoME3x0S4D/giphy.gif

hi Karl, I enjoyed the track a lot, liked the guitar sound

interesting to see your paintings evolve too. definitely inspiring to see yr things take shape, and to see someone fight against this horrible anxious block which I guess we're all feeling now. anyway, thanks, take care

thanks for listening! it is my first electric guitar and amp (ES-339 and Fender blues jr IV), so i don't have much to compare it to, but it seems to be good at handling bright Byrds-like tones.

i had my first total painting failure last night. 6 hours spent on it, and i completely ruined it at the end.

one thing that sucks about using analog media: no Undo feature

that’s the best part, actually

haha well yeah, it's true. i feel that way most of the time. but holy shit every once in a while i wish i could Undo. maybe just like one big Undo you can do, per week, so that you have to make it count

https://i.imgur.com/Pj2s77B.jpg

i've painted half of this! but if i repeat what i just painted, upside down, as a different layer, and adjust the opacity and saturation down, it'll look like this! so pretty much halfway there, rounding up to done

sorry, drunk. what i mean is that i'm going to try to take the current version

https://i.imgur.com/JFzVUuS.jpg

and paint a new layer over parts of it that look like above

and by "rounding up to done" i was trying to make a joke about being halfway done and obviously far away from finishing but rounding up to the next milestone ("done")

i have been recently informed that some of my jokes aren't landing and don't even make sense. things got a little dry over here, humorwise, on my part

i'm laying it all out here on the table

don't bother scooping up my corpse, coach, i gave it all up out there on the field

sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper

i was already giving 110% out there. but then my pay got docked 80% but my tasks remained the same, so now i'm giving, uh...let's see...138%

jeez, i was a little drunk last night

thought of you
https://zooooom.us/

"This is a real parody and a real screensaver"

And a real ripoff of conferencecall.biz!

i'm surprised conferencecall.biz hasn't gone viral again

it's gotten a little boost, and i've seen more twitter comments and stuff recently, but nothing too big.

overall stats since 2014:

297K users, 338K sessions

average time on-site: 48 seconds

https://i.imgur.com/oqGRZ7f.png

profit = (~$15 AWS server costs per month) x 88 months = -$1320

on the plus side some developer guy asked me a few days ago if he could adapt the website into a Google Assistant app, which i guess is cool for people who use those kinds of devices

not to be that guy but you might be able to host it for free on github pages and have the dns point there (assuming its all static content)

https://i.imgur.com/FVPRIOm.jpg

oingo boingo version

https://i.imgur.com/qLNQy58.gif

bandwidth throb version

https://i.imgur.com/1ekM4PI.gif

https://i.imgur.com/Nu6n3Ct.gif

never finished this, which these days means it's finished i guess

https://i.imgur.com/fYwjZDL.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/B7zq9FV.png

sorry, one more. this one incorporates the reference photo i was using from my living room. it's like you're actually standing there really high!

https://i.imgur.com/8VdIssZ.gif

like the superimposition one a lot!

thanks!
it helps to not be completely wasted, heh

a lot of things have changed in the last 12 years. but the likelihood of me being completely inebriated while trying to do things remains as strong as ever, sadly

https://i.imgur.com/piA00s2.jpg

Big fan of all of these. Animated panels of a sketchbook is a fantastic idea. Would love to see a photomontage-type short film in this style.

hi Karl, image hosting related question here. hope you don't mind me posting it in yr thread. seems imgur now requires a phone number to create an account. i don't like that. what are my alternatives ? how does this look to you:

https://vgy.me/

of course budo, it's always nice to have company on this thread! :)

i guess the answer to your question depends on what you're looking to do with the image hosting. for just posting images and getting a link to share them online (like this thread), i'm pretty sure you don't need an account with imgur. you can just do it as a rando person, not signed in. the account is more for "community" (the imgur comment community is among the worst on the internet) and for keeping track of old images you uploaded. but if you just want to quickly upload an image and share it, you can do that without logging in.

if you're looking for a more professional/advanced option, i think options like Flickr are still pretty popular, but i definitely don't know much about that side of things. i'm a longtime down-and-dirty imgur uploader

xp to tangenttangent thank you! i like that idea a lot too! i will probably give it a shot sometime (in a limited, 'let's give it a shot' fashion) soon.

it's an interesting thing to think about, in terms of what kinds of painted shapes and lines offer more creative flexibility on the animation side. generally, clean crisp lines with highly contrasted foreground/background elements are easier to animate. but the nice thing about photoshop and other apps is that if you want to spend enough time, you can deal with pretty much whatever. but if i knew ahead of time that i would be animating it, i could choose subject matter that would make my life easier. could be fun!

commodity VPS hosting is also super cheap now and guides to configuring a webserver on them abound, so like, there's always hosting it yourself. You might keep paying for hosting longer than imgur does for all you know! xxp

here's mx computer guy with the unhelpful difficult suggestions that cost money

haha, no that sounds legit! i think it all depends on what you want to do with the images.

personally, for anything that is shared online, i just use a simple easy host (imgur) with the understanding that like any other company on the internet, it'll probably be bought out by some group of jerks and ruined, then shut down. i always keep the originals on my own hard drive - well, NOW i do, after the tinypic disaster of whatever year that was - and figure that at some point in the next 5-10 years everything online will be broken yet again

ah okay thanks Karl and silby !!

i posted this on the 77 depresso thread (while i was nearly passing out, whoops). i need to change a few things but it's generally done. the 2 personal milestones for me on this were that it was the first thing i've painted without a reference image, and that i was able to do it just a couple hours. i definitely don't think that less time spent on something is better, in and of itself, but i had been spending waaaaaay too long on them recently, which is cool but seems ill-advised for early-stage amateur efforts. at an early stage of learning something it seems more valuable to spend that time working on different aspects of the discipline, rather than endlessly refining your 6th painting ever (or whatever)

https://i.imgur.com/srY0tZ1.jpg

that's a very large image, so feel free to open in a new tab if you want to see every ill-advised brush stroke, zoom into a nearly empty glass of whiskey, or admire my ohio-shaped coaster

https://i.imgur.com/RhhMFrB.gif

COVID descending a staircase