Art Videos Library
The Art Videos Library features videos that I've created and published on YouTube starting in November 2013. The videos fall into threee categories:
- experimental art animations
- videos about my art
- tutorial/instructional videos
You can read about my initial foray into making videos for YouTube in my blog post Learning YouTube and Movie Maker.
Click either the video image or the video name to be taken to that video's gallery page.
Generative Portrait of Vincent van Gogh
This is a generative animation of a portrait of Vincent van Gogh, specifically Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat. I created the video using Processing and used Audacity for the audio track. I merged the video with the audio using the FFMPEG utility.
Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas Algorithmic Interpretation Video
This video is an algorithmic interpretation of a painting by Renoir. The video was created using Processing and is an example of creative coding. To learn more about the making of the video, you can read my blog post on the subject: Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas Algorithmic Interpretation Video.
A Perlin Noise Reconstruction of Nighthawks Video
To create this video, I used a perlin noise driven particle system to assemble a section of Edward Hopper's classic 1942 painting Nighthawks that features the three diners sitting at a restaurant counter. I wrote the program using the Processing programming language and used Adobe Photoshop to create the title and end slides. The soundtrack music is Lock Down by Blue Dressed Man which I then manipulated using several effects filters in Audacity. The video itself was assembled using Shotcut (https://shotcut.org/).
Algorithmic Fireflies At Sunset
This is an algorithmic art video I created using the Processing language (Processing.org) for the visuals and Audacity for the soundtrack. In the video, I provide narration that offers some basic information about how I created the video. As a side note, the original video was created from 1631 image frames and had a total file size of 1.5 gigabytes, which Youtube significantly compressed.
The Liquified Paintings of Video Claude Monet with Music by Ravel
This video is an example of the evolutionary animation of a sequence of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The common theme of the paintings is that they all feature water. I created this animation using Processing and a customized algorithm. The soundtrack is Laideronnette Imperatrice Des Pagodes by Maurice Ravel. For more information about this video, see my blog post The Liquified Paintings of Claude Monet.
Swimming Eye Art
Swimming Eye is a video made by using a Perlin noise system to drive the motion of a particle system with the program being written using the Processsing language (processing.org). The program was originally meant to be used as an algorithmic painting program to generate static 2D images. You can learn more about this video in my blog post Swimming Eye Video.
The Digital Portrait Art of Jim Plaxco
A video presentation of some of the digital portrait art I had created at the time. For details and a list of the art used, see Portrait Art Video
Sailing Stormy Sea Animation Short
This video was created using Processing (processing.org) and is simply a test of an algorithm to simulate a rocking motion. I used the Processing P3D renderer with each 3D sphere being an instance of an object oriented class. This particular run used 10,000 sphere objects. Each sphere was assigned a home x,y location and a color which was taken from a source image.Video won't be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Darryl F. Zanuck of 20th Century Fox in 1946