Extraterrestrial Skies // Art Catharsis

in hive-158694 •  5 years ago 

Yesterday I proposed an art contest to challenge everyone to make something to channel the emotions that are sizzling in the air this week. I will be participating as well and here is my first one... Alien Skies:

To start I began drawing in photoshop, then copy and pasting the layer over and over moving it a bit each time. The first draft looked something like this:

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I played around with liquifying these layers and then started color filling the white areas, next evolution looked like this:

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I then further distorted the image creating a 3D fractal and height mapping to arrive at this and then added some animation to give it a breathing effect:

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Come join the contest here: Art Catharsis

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This is cool. It has a lot going on. The more I look at it, the more I see. Like a postmodern alien inkblot.

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Wow that is great! I've never seen such a way of making art. I like it :)
I don't know if that's possible, but in case it is I would suggest that you add some elastique motion to the final "breathing" result! You know? I mean applying that principle of animation so that it "bounces" and feels more natural. Something like a curve modulating the speed of each frame.

Hehe thanks, sometimes I start off with intentions of doing one thing and it just goes in a completely different direction, lol. I wish my animation skills were up to par, I used the help of an application to do this, I have after effects but my skills are pretty limited. Learning it is on my to do list though :)

Yeah I see! that's why art is so fun :D
Okay so for after effects, I think what I was thinking about is called "ease in" and "ease out", or something like that :)

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