The invention factory

This page is dedicated to the stuff that I like to do. I like photography and invention. For all of my adult life and a great deal of time before that I have been building / inventing things. Most of my work has been centered on industrial designs for the...

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Discovery

A painting created today to keep in practice. 

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The Raven

This is my first attempt at lip syncing. It is not all that easy. First you need the voice. The the animation. The a lot of adjustments. 

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Amy’s Science Project

This is an animation that recently made. It too twenty years to get it right, find the voice, gather the proper tools and storyboard the way I wanted it to be. Even the voice was not right. I Found TTSMP3.com and had a hard choice on the voices that they offer. I had one, but it was just not tight for this character. I decides on the English Emma voice. I even had issues with the walk cycles and the order of the scenes right down to the last minuet. I hope that you like it. 

https://youtu.be/6aYUe_tCZA0?list=PLTbaF5iemCe-o1CaNODeC4UjDBCodWk1e

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A Halloween animation

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Experimental walk cycles

This is a series of walk cycles mage using Moho Pro. The music is the Cannery by Kevin Macleod. I am testing various techniques for making characters and walk cycles. 

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What?

What happened?

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Here is my second photo that I have face swapped. This time I used the same face used in my previous submission, This time I uses a painting by Emile Vernon (1872 - 1919). It is public domain. I began be descaling to 56″ by 40″ at 72 dpi. I then cleaned the painting up so that damaged details have been corrected. I added the face as was done in the previous entry. However, this is an oil painting. Oil paintings have texture. I searched Photoshop for a matching texture. The texture consist of a pattern with light direction and depth. Once the face with texture has been merged then it was adjusted for color, brightness and contrast. I really like the blue in this picture and adjusted for the face and the coat color. 

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I did this picture last week. I used the head from a photo my mother took of me in front of my computer work station. This image was suggested by a friend. She told me that I should make a father - daughter picture. I have been doing a lot of composite scenes in the past. I wanted the daughter to have a Day face. I looked at my childhood photos and found a first grade class picture that was in black and white. I began with just the face. The eyes were not right, Do I isolated only the nose and the mouth. I searched the internet for proper eyes. With the eyes nose and mouth I made a face overlay. I worked it until the shadows were gone and the tone was right. It was colorized and I now had a acceptable face. 

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For me I isolated the head and placed it on the original picture. The original head hat parts that hung out. On the original drawing I painted out most the the outside of the head. I used Photoshop’s clone took. I cloned in a seamless background into the space. To place the head it was placed in an upper layer. The opacity was lowered so that both face details could be seen. Using the trans form the eyes and mouth are scaled, rotated and aligned. Once everything fits the opacity is reset to normal. 

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The child’s face was done the same. However, the there is over lap. I used a soft round brush on the face layer mask to remove the excess. The soft brush sort of blend the edges. The opacity is then reset. The it is a matter of color balancing and adjusting the brightness and contrast. Then more blending of the edges until the face and the head is seamless. I corrected the color of my head. I merged all layers and overall color corrected the image to make the best overall picture. I will be posting another from a fine art collection. 

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I got a new jacket and I love it 🌟🌌💖

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old selfie for #tdov haha

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Okay?

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Work on a project I started in 1998.

Here is a sample of the project I have been working on. I have attempted many different animation system, but this one seams to be working with my story. I got this program, Muvizu, a little over two weeks ago. I have completed ten scenes and have a so far. There are a total of fifteen in the complete story. I Intend to finish the story in a raw form then fine tune each scene. There will be a dialog added later. I have a large collection of music to draw on. Through the years I have arranges, instrumented and synthesized music. I should be able to find something that works.  

https://youtu.be/OBzxUoYvVQ8

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This is a demo showing what can be done in Moho Debut animation. When done correlate if looks greet.  

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This is a demo of using Bones in Moho to bend a vector image. 

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Inchwowm: This is a test of Moho camera functions and path following. 

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Flytrap test. 

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This is a sample of What I am working for. I wrote the original script in October 1998. I attempted to do it in Flash then in Toonboom. Neither allowed bitmaps to be used for characters. 

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This is my first walk cycle done in Moho, I have had Moho Debut for less than a week now. By the way these animations run fine on my Droid Phone.

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I always feel pretty good after a haircut

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I need to get my cut too. I have been keeping it shorter. At one point it got to 18″.