Tik Tok Reels And Shorts Marketing

As of today I have completed 60 animations. After I register them with the USCO I will go public with them.

 

Look forward to seeing your animations David.

I've been into video animation for a few years — instinctively keeping them, for the most part, well under a minute.

I recently came across several articles about viewer engagement. An example: https://martech.org/how-to-advertise-to-an-audience-with-an-8-second-attention-span/

I use both YouTube, and Vimeo. Will you be monetizing your videos?

Carmen,

I have my thumb on the pulse of the very commercial music business. I realized a few years ago that viral hip hop artists made about $2000 for 400 million views. I am making up numbers but you get the point. The pay off is very low. And I wont get 400 million views. Or I am not banking on that.

Then I noticed last year that Ariana Grande had no ads on one of her videos. I do not know if that applies across the board. She was being smart. Basically more people would watch the video all the way through. That promoted her work even more so. So she forgoes what? $50k per year? That is cheap advertising to spread the word of her music. She banks then on concert dates which pay in the millions.

Carmen we can not openly discuss NFTs here, but feel free to email me if you have plans with NFTs. I am interested in your take.

Carmen,

Since the six points are cookie cutter in the article much of it does not apply to me. Some of it applies more when the article was written.

The thing that really applies to me is point five. Personalizing the ad.

Are you monetizing your videos? What is your take away?

I am seriously, seriously, hoping YouTube doesn't get full of shorts.

One reason I love YouTube are the full length stories, music, tutorials.

If that changes then I'd leave

Abbie it probably will not.

In particular if people are trying to monetise their YouTube account. As far a I can see that the hours viewed for shorts do not count.

David; It seems to me that while you can embed short videos you can not in fact embed shorts.

Howevr here goes.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i8YHACkAsow

It is called War Child.

It is a short so a link is the best I can do.

This is a short video but not a short so I can embed a link.

The difference between a YouTube short and a short YouTube video seems to depend on format as well as length.

So a short video in square/portrait format turns out as a short but in landscape format turns out as a short video.

It is now possible to attach hashtags to YouTube videos but not shorts (I might be missing a trick)

Both War child and Girls of War have been up for a day.

Girls of War has got five views; which does not surprise me, given that I have only really begun working on my YouTube Channel this month.

On the other hand War Child has got 736 views in the same time. That really does surprise me.

DB what interests me is the following in reality while our experience here might be fairly static in galleries it is anything but.

We do not stand in one spot with our eyes fixed on one point; we move around.

In 3d animation there is a world view; where the camera moves and a local view where the 'actors move'

What I am trying to do is along the lines of the first.

Enough for now. The dog wants his walk; and if he wants his walk he gets his walk.

I created some shorts for my (neglected) YouTube channel (Acrylic Pouring and Fractal Art). Here is one of them:



I also uploaded some longer videos that do show more of the painting process.

Another one (Fractal Art): https://youtube.com/shorts/_U2XHseOH6g

Abbie,

I am pretty sure YouTube does not need to push the shorts the way FB and Tik Tok have. Because time on site is valuable. YouTube seems to just have them riding along side. But I am very new to this and started this thread to learn much more.

Martin,

Thank you for all the information. I will think of titles like "NFT number x ABC" Since the name is clickable people can find my link tree to see the NFT collection. The art must sell the project. As always this is hit or miss.

The camera work is an interesting discussion. I move the actor but in a Blender animation. I am working on prototype number 4 this morning. There will be 20 versions total in the next three days. I am getting faster at this. Workflow has been critical to get right.

Matthias,

Very nice examples. The music is nice. The first one which I just watched is close to a DIY. Part of this is how to market....including how to sell a product. I am trying to coordinate that.

The thing that really applies to me is point five. Personalizing the ad.

Carmen,

I misread point number five wrong last night. I am not personalizing the ads. I am personalizing the art to me the artist. NFT art returns the concept of original ownership to digital art in that vein I am owning the concept very clearly in the presentation.

Not sure the art buying market is the same as the "I watch YouTube all day and night" market. Although if you are selling pizza delivery or house cleaning services, that might be a fruitful market to target.

Ed,

It is very difficult to capitalize on. All I can say is my project will as always be hit or miss. Of course all of us on YouTube have had only limited success. Although I can think of one photographer here doing DIY videos who really has built a following. I can think of one NYC photographer here as well who has had billions of views.

As of now I am not sure when it will be made public. I am looking at two factors with Eth, the value breaking out above $4700 later this year and the Difficulty Bomb being successful to implement a new structure for the blockchain hopefully in June.

If a super model can sell lipstick because she is a smashing hit others can sell product. Not looking to sell as much obviously. If a hit it is a matter of coordinating the window shopping.

As designers we individually take stock if we want of how to approach the public online to be viral. That of course is far from guaranteeing any success, but we are designers we have a big edge. Even if we need a completely different product.

 

David, no, not monetizing via YouTube.

Gallery exhibits work best for me in that regard.

There are those that provide exhibit fees, you have to source those out, usually by Calls for Submission.

Carmen,

I am not sure what you mean?

As in influencers?

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Oh you mean for your gallery exhibits. For now I am not looking for gallery space. I have not given it any thought.

 

Not gallery space per se, David. Many galleries have online platforms. Those are the ones to source if you're looking for exhibit fees.

Specifically via their Calls for Submission.

For example, came across one today that will pair applicants with a mentor. The call for submission was very specific, for example, no animations.

Which my NIkon will come in very handy for.


Definitely not as an influencer. I leave that to those inclined to that mode.

@Edward, I agree for the most part. I have been on YouTube for a while now and find it best to use it to connect with other artists, talk about my life as an artist, and share tips on different materials rather than trying to use it to get art sales. The best way to make money through YouTube is to build your audience and get paid through Adsense, sponsorships and though affiliate marketing. Basically it is it's own creative income source that may not actually be about direct sales.

So in that case, I would never recommend only doing shorts on YouTube, because getting paid through YouTube heavily relies on long form content. Shorts can be a great way however, to supplement your other content and reach new viewers to bring them in. If you do a good shorts video and someone likes it, they may come back to your channel to see your longer form content.

YouTube is all about connection and interaction, people are more likely to follow you if they can get to know you. Down the line that can lead to sales, but really sales as a main goal can be fruitless. As with anything it takes a lot of time but it can be a nice supplemental income along with other artistic endeavors.

Here is a short that I have done. Just a quick stop motion to show off a preliminary sketch:
https://youtube.com/shorts/PRsimWZwvqU?feature=share

My main content though is product reviews, tutorials, and basic life of an artist kind of things. People go to YouTube to learn things and be entertained. It's another way for people to be involved in the things that interest them. They don't necessarily go there to buy things. If you want viewers you have to figure out what is of value to them. Once people are invested in you and your content though, then you can start showing things off for the sake of sharing them with your audience.

DB It is good to see another Link-tree user. Have you ever looked at metricool.

It overlaps with Link Tree but gives very good and very visual analytics on say YouTube and Instagram, including a break down by age.

Shana I like it. You have a new subscriber.

Edward I would agree that they are not the same market. However, there will be a good degree of overlap.

Basically because the YouTube market is so big. Added to that not all YouTube users watch YouTube all day; for many it is a tool to find what they want.

It is in fact often used as a search engine. And ranks 2 after Google. I might add that it is own by Google.


''YouTube is not simply a website; it is a search engine. YouTube's user-friendliness, combined with the soaring popularity of video content, has made it the second largest search engine behind Google. With 3 billion searches per month, YouTube's search volume is larger than that of Bing, Yahoo, AOL and Ask.com combined.''

I would also add that it probably not a good idea (particularly at this time) to have to fixed a view re the nature of the art buying market.

Shana I am beginning to explore a way by say using Link Tree and metricool to link things together.

On my twitter account click on the pinned tweet. It does not take you to any particular site but to in effect all my sites.

The same link exists on YouTube.

We are each invested in our particular artwork. I have always been experimenting in my own way. I feel comfortable working to extend a new avenue for me into finding a larger audience. At the root and really the heart of any marketing effort is the reality of the artwork itself. As always my project can be hit or miss.

Carmen, Ed, and Shana,

Part of these threads on reels and shorts as marketing tools is that we can skip the middlemen. The competition on the SM platforms against Tik Tok is such that reach is given to what is popular. We do not have to wait for vetting by anyone but the public. There is a larger collector class on these platforms sussing out NFTs. Those collectors are at times very monied and also skipping the middlemen.

Martin you are correct YouTube is so big it is hardly a singular audience. If it were that would limit its audience and usefulness for no reason at all.

Martin I will look into Metricool. Is it a free add-on?

David like link tree it has a free and a number of paid versions. The free version will suite most needs. Basically what you get is one brand.

With this you can include all your SM accounts. I have chosen to focus on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.

One feature of interest is the you can schedule posts across your social media account.

The free version allows 50 post the paid for versions allow 2000 posts.

The best way to describe it id that it is a cross between buffer and link tree.

If you are paying for one or both of those; it could be a cost effective replacement for both.

If one chose the free version; which is a perfectly valid option; then it all three together could work very well.

In fact my preference is to both schedule and manually tweet on twitter. However, for Instagram and YouTube I prefer (at this stage) to manually upload.

Martin,

I looked over Metricool. Prior I had looked over some other similar thing.

There are a host of problems with the others that are not Link Tree. The others all seem to be more complex and wonky. The teams of people creating these scheme are small and different functions and connections fail right away or will fail later as the SM platforms shift. The small coding teams probably wont keep up. By keeping it simple Link Tree keeps up better. Link Tree is also very consistently up and working. The prior product I tried was down for two weeks. That is totally untenable.

Then there is trusting credit card numbers to people. Link Tree has the most on the line to secure my credit card.

I get Mestricool has a free basic membership, but as a solution it is not so good. If that small company closes down later on my entire marketing effort goes up in smoke for a period of time. I might be the last to know there is any problem.

adding I am adding three websites. The free version of Metricool does not allow that.

Good point David. At the moment I am exploring Buffer (which interestingly has a good smart link, even with their free version) . Link tree which I plan to stick with for my smart link.

At the moment the link in my twitter bio is scorpiondesign7.space however it points to my link tree (I brought the domain name for a year at a very reasonable price)

My pinned tweet also in fact points to my link tree account.

What I use Metricool for is the very visual analytics, which includes a fairly detailed break down by age of my YouTube audience which seems to sit in the 18-35 age bracket.

I use YouTube as my primary site for promotion outside of FAA which has definitely helped to drive traffic to my AW. My strategy is to build up a subscriber base that is interested in/nostalgic about the areas I sell as prints. My videos are not about photography or my images, they are about the areas I photograph, basically walks/bike rides/drives. I just show a link to my AW at the beginning of all my videos for a few seconds. If I want to share any photos with my subscribers I do so using the community tab. My channel gets about 12k views/month currently which isn't great but it's getting there. It's just a few subs away from hitting monetization numbers but that's probably like a dollar or two a month so it's probably not worth monetizing at this point.

I am def long form content though, 10 min - hour long videos usually. I tried shorts a few times but they never got any more reach than my normal videos. I personally prefer long form much more than shorts as a viewer too.

Toby,

Interesting feedback, particularly the community tab.

I have set myself a challenge to create 100 videos in 100 days. This is from yesterday

The video got its own thread. I have removed it here.

Today's Production.

Martin,

In these videos do you consider the camera to be moving or the actor? Or both?

adding Martin if you can scale down the time of the motion in the video consider doing so for effect.

My time is at .65 or 65% of how fast it would normally run. This gives a more natural effect to the motions.

Well I just cruised into 70 animations completed so far.

David I find that is not an easy question to answer.

However on balance I would say the camera.

Most of the shorts start with a piece of art and most of the videos are based on zooming in on them.

As far as I can see there is a limit to which I can do so.

Each of the videos I produce on NightCafe cost money to create.

The length, frame rate and number of iterations per frame add to the cost.

At the moment I earn (in credits) about $10 a day from NightCafe for my work, mainly by sharing it.

This can get me a piece of artwork and a short video a day.

In am actively exploring a number of other options; which should improve their quality.

I will add and I believe you yourself have mentioned this. That it is not always easy to get good artwork from NightCafe; it is possible but it is hit and miss.

The best option is often delete.

Say that I now have in excess of 1000 piece of artwork and video on Nightcafe and am in their top league of producers. It took about 3 months to get there.

One thing I am trying to work on is to become an ambassador for NightCafe and earn addition money in doing so.

That just might be wishful thinking; but I work on the principle that the surest way of failing is not to try.

In terms of the videos the approach I might adopt is to edit the NightCafe in other packages.

For completeness I also use Artbreeder for images and videos.

I am also starting to use Playform; a higher end product but unfortunately a lot more expensive.

However it does gives one the opportunity to train your own AI model (very important for a serious AI artist); you also can become a member of a growing community of profession AI artist.

That does beg the question why not use something like blender to create the animations.

I do have a reasonable working knowledge of Blender, however, I also have considerable nerve damage in my hand; which does limit to use such package.

The modelling and rigging being a particular problem.

Martin,

I am very sorry to hear of your hand limitation. That is not easy.

I knocked myself back to 60 animations. I deleted ten of them. It is important in Blender when producing a perfect object to make it less perfect like a human being has touched it in the formation of the object. The prototype I was working off of has a problem beyond just a simple imperfection. I was actually too unsettled. I have burned two days, but am at least two weeks ahead of schedule. Hurry up and wait on Ethereum. I could be a long wait.

Why use Blender?

To answer that in commercial terms for the results...potentially... I will equate it to contemporary music. Dance music always sells better than progressive or academic music. People want an interactive music with melodies and harmonies.

The company that puts out the Bored Apes interacts with the audiences. The apes based really on Suzanne in Blender (a monkey head that comes with Blender that the 3D world knows) is a rift for the company to capitalize while the AI for putting the collection together creates an auction interaction. Then there is the club aspect and merchandise. I can not duplicate that but I can do a few things there. Plus I can create objects that people will visually engage.

David please do not get me wrong if I could use blender I would. Stills I can do a reasonable job on; in the case of animations my hands are not up to it basically they are 70 % dead.

When it gets cold they get a lot worse.

Thing that can be done with key board short cuts are okay.

So in PS I can get away with those most of the time, but anything that involves using a mouse to any degree is not an option.

My approach is different I have moved fairly extensively to AI art.

However that does not mean typing in a prompt and getting art out. I use at least 6 different approaches to AI art including the text prompt one.

Playform which is probable the top end of the products I use does not in fact have a text prompt option.

Unfortunately it would practical to describe it here.

Let just say it starts with uploading between 50 to 100 similar images; and then the work starts.

Martin, you have totally changed my perception of my hands.

If you have control over what Blender calls the "time scale" I turn mine down. It helps the viewer a great deal.

I will look at that.

I put it from 1 which is 100% to .65

separately my bake was successful

I will get back to work tomorrow morning, it is time to unwind.

David I almost seems like a full time job.

I am enjoying the process a great deal. With any process there is an element of tedium. This involves a lot of long processes that are complex and repetitive.

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Martin, I just remembered I can not immediately save a bake like I did last night. I have to further the process before saving to maintain the process. It is complex and I can not get into specifically why at this time before registering my work. I am having to rebake it.

There is a good bit of data retention, the second bake is only taking 20 minutes.

David, I am an art photographer, so most of what I post on my social networks and such are images, however, I do shoot short little videos and post them on reels for extra engagement. It does seem to work. Here are a few of these short videos. People really love them, especially the ones where I featured Pink Floyd. ;)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVotvKrBhRZ/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWbhKpJjXln/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccn0G3EpW-9/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcdysK6jSeR/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcEBCfKD_Lp/'

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWetANhBHoU/

These videos don't actually feature my photographs as such, so that might be the next series of vids that I do. Something that actually features my imagery.

Sean,

That is very interesting. With some 1000 likes on some of those give or take.....how much reach outside of your followership are you able to estimate?

The videos are beautiful. The music is excellent.

Odd stuff by other people are running up into the 100s of thousands of likes. There is an irony or whatever that is there. Making it more hit or miss.

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When I trained to make a donut there was advice involved on perfection. Basically the toro that makes the donut shape can be absolutely perfect with the digital tools, but in reality no donut is shaped all that well. They get bent dragging them through the oil and sugars added. Some have sprinkles in one area and not another....etc.....

It is a very big aesthetic difference. And it is very tricky for me.

My fourth prototype is wrapping up the individual files. Tomorrow I will have 8 to 10 animations completed.

The color scheme in this prototype is my best yet.

adding I stayed up late and created three animations to test this prototype out.

David your comment reminds me of the Archvis in joke.

That they spend more time dirtying up their images that tidying their flats.

Martin,

Because I did not know some things going into the project each prototype has shown growth in skill. That helps.

I am using LoFi for my sound track. That also helps.

My app based camera was less sharp, I wont say out of focus because it was in focus, than it had to be. That helps.

Color control has shifted dramatically version to version. That helps.


The idea is that if a collector says, "that I must have" his or her bid will help all of the NFTs appreciate in value. The piece the collector wants could be the screwiest or the best according to who? By creating some things that will rise in price faster regardless of not be able to guess at all who will want what all of them appreciate.

Martin,

The final renders are not intensive on the GPU. The EXR file creation that render is ultra intensive and a long duration.

For my final renders I am setting two in motion at a time. Cutting my time down again.

This is a really good how to video

I have had to take a deep breath this morning. Powering through things I am in several ways overwhelmed and not making sure to get my energy back. At this point I can take my time and enjoy the journey, get a good night's sleep and get my energy back. I have time.

My schedule for listing my animations on Opensea has moved up dramatically. Turns out the transition to Proof of Stake on the Eth blockchain is happening now. It will be complete later this year. There wont be some massive glitch that I had been thinking I needed to avoid.

I will begin to market the animations by the end of May. Possibly a week sooner. I have been beginning to study the marketing tools and Opensea listing process in more detail. As I feel I have a better handle on the parameters all of my work will roll out.

I have 120 animations finished. I have 80 to go. Minimum of 12 days of work to finish them. With a break or two 15 days or less and I am done.

I did not realize how fast I have gotten at this. The project might be complete in the next seven or eight days.

With my second prototype I did something almost inadvertently and it looked better. I kept it up in the 3rd, 4th and 5th prototypes. The 2nd and 4th it works really well.

I am now redoing the 3rd and 5th prototype along with doing the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th.

I am doing them two prototypes at a time in a run of six animation creations in about 25 minutes.

My schedule has gone from 3 months to learn how and get one done to six weeks to complete all of them. And in this week ending next Wednesday I will have created and finished with redoes 120 animations out of the 200 total.

On this thread I am going to start now to add more videos on marketing shorts and reels as I broaden out my marketing. Later on people might come back to these videos if they need them.

One of mine.

Martin,

Certainly a change up of effect. Can you get the stream to flow?

David not yet. However, I am working on things like that.

I will include a YouTube video not mine that outlines a number of free (and often open source) images editors that can be used to help work on videos.

Interesting video.

In my case I am using the Blender video editor to create the animation. Blender Guru does not recommend the Blender video editor, but for my needs it is extremely good.

This thread is open to every artist adding shorts to YT, or for that matter reels for FB/IG.

https://youtube.com/shorts/PlLV3VjBnnM?feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_rr_H2mIvc&list=WL&index=39

Martin,

How to automate the upload of images to Opensea. There are a few neat tricks in this.

Martin,

I really like that video. Would there be a way to market it? I get you are looking for likes and viewer counts right now.

There is a lot of talent in the video. But photographs have been used this way for a while. Marketing it?

David; I am at an early stage of this project.

It basically at the create content and share it stage. I am beginning to think about marketing it . I am building my Instagram account and YouTube account.

Instagram is going well; I only really started to work on it this month and in that time I have gone from about 30 followers to 500 followers. This month the focus is om IG and I aim for 5000 followers by the end of the month.

YouTube is more hit and miss; however the short above has got about 80 views and 6 likes. I posted it there today at about 02.00 our time.

I am still working out what works and what does not.

I mainly use Artbreeder and Nightcafe to create the still and the videos. On Nightcafe in am really successful with now having 5000 like (likes not view) and make enough there per day in credits to make 3 pieces of art and one video.

Basically I have now started a 3 month project to build my accounts and create content. I am also working on building a market; then I will start marketing.

I am also working on playform. This is really high end AI where you train you own AI model rather than in using a communal one. Hence overcoming a major drawback with NightCafe.

 

A look back to 2013, and one of my early animations. View @ 720 HD    Runtime 36 seconds
 


 

My fav from 2014. View @1080 HD     Runtime 23 seconds
 

Carmen! Excuse me...I was not ready for that blech....LOL

 

Mwah-ha-HA!     ;)

And the fun I also had with this was in cladding them/their skins in textures/material from this acrylic painting on canvas painting I created in 1986.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/checkmate-carmen-hathaway

 

This mode was useful in understanding how to work with morph animation

It is part of a commissioned biopic of my artist grandmother's life.

This is on adding CAD abilities to Blender. I have training in AutoCAD. My next project will be working this.

 

CAD programs are interesting to explore.

Always appreciative that I invested the time in a manual drafting course in college, nothing quite like learning from the ground up.

Good ol' T-squares, graph paper, drafting table, etc.

Perspective IS everything.

My engineer dad would be proud.

Bet he would be.

I did drafting twice. Mechanical drafting in UofH engineering and two drafting classes for a ASME later on. Then the AutoCAD two classes.

In between I did art school.

adding, I am getting down the last 40 of 200 animations. Have them done on Monday. My sisters are coming into town for Mother's Day. I will take a break to celebrate with family. I have 40 animations I am wrapping up this afternoon. May seem odd but there are important personal touches on all 40.

 

I look forward to viewing your animations. Enjoy your family gathering.

Carmen,

Looking forward to going public with the animations. Some time next week. Perhaps next weekend.

Nice to have the oldsters still with us. We will have a very nice brunch.

David I am looking forward to seeing them.

Martin,

The colors in that last video are fun.

adding for a few technical reasons I am backed up an extra couple of days.

My latest!

I bumped into a friend of mine who is a top machine tool designer. CT really excels in tool and dye. He advised me that there can be problems with surfaces in a design if there is a folding of the surface or a cone coming to a point. In the cone's case the point has nothing to work with, so a ball can be added to a point to work it.

A folded surface makes the math too complex at times.

My friend uses a different software than Blender but the math for the geometry has to be the exact same. There can be no differences in the math behind the scenes.

There is geometry and topology. Different software handles topology in different way.

Blend is quite good at doing that. The teapot primitive is there for that reason.

Yep but building an object is based on geometry. This includes the surface of the object.

adding, I am nixing the tenth and last prototype as too complex for Blender. But it is not just Blender any software involving geometry can not do what I need of it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IBs46H-O_bE

My latest!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FCSumLKaUww

You can see the tears!

Now its bed time!

David have you tried Nurbs.

I am not sure exactly what you mean by geometry, do you mean polygon modelling?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e1iA_Hyf0GI

My latest; it is called 12 AM!

Martin,

The Nurbs are interesting. Might have worked but I went to a different concept for my last prototype. I am hoping it floors people.

How to load FB reels.

Tomorrow I will be wrapping up my project. 200 animations in the can.

I am organizing them for uploading on the eCo to register them. That will take two days. It is 20 submissions forms to the copyrights office.

I will then load my site here.

Then add the animations to a collection on Opensea. Puts me into Wednesday 18th? Somewhere in there. That is about the time y'all will see the other premium site I have.

Add around 3 weeks of marketing them, then add around 3 weeks of an auction period, the entire show will be over end of June.

I am about four weeks ahead of schedule. That takes a lot of pressure off of my vacation, which is the least of it. But god do I need a vacation. So looking forward to seeing family.

 

A bit of fun in pondering how things can turn out. Distortion's a fav mode of mine.
 

Carmen that is ultra cool.

There is a famous digital artist at the top of the income ladder, way up, making the line abstracts similarly. But he does it only as fill. He is playing a massive game with numbers of editions in the NFT world.

He has absolutely nothing on how you ended that video. He is trying for no aesthetic. Just proof of a numbers game.

https://twitter.com/muratpak


PS my schedule is looking like all the work will be registered hopefully by Friday. It might take me four days to put the work on Opensea. Hopefully May 24 everything will be fully public.

 

Thanks David — I enjoy terrific fun in my creative process.

Looking forward to your presentations May 24-ish.

My Latest

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MO-Hi-acY1M

 

One of the aspects I enjoy most in animations is using my own original textures on the object models. Looking forward to seeing what you've applied in your animations, David.

In this piece, I applied the image from a scan I created of an acrylic painting I created several years ago. I scanned at 800 dpi — the resulting hi rez textural detail comes in very handy for various projects.

All original composition.

 

I love this one Carmen.

Carmen,

I am back in town so to speak. Nice work, very impressive with the 800 dpi.

I have setup a site here. I have selected a wallet and started a collection on Opensea. But it will be two to three days before I am totally setup.

 


Thanks Martin, and David — on with the show(s) — this is it    ;)

Enjoying looking back a few years, this from 2017.

Great music Carmen. Impressive roar.

I am going to have to make "cards" for my animations to list them on Opensea. The process now is heavy clerical lifting. Perhaps 6 days of work.

Still everything will be in full swing before June.

 

Inspired by the 2022 Abenaki Pow Wow, July 29-31,Odanak, Quebec, Canada

Features my original images,soundtrack, animation.
 




I'm a member of the Odanak Abenaki First Nation The Abenaki double curve motif is featured throughout the video.

On IG anf FB, I find that my short form videos now have more reach than photos. So I post those occasionally sprinkled in with the regular image carousels. Here's a sample insta vid:



Showcases like these have gotten conversions to sales for my stores in other platforms. As of the moment I haven't started doing marketing for my FAA material yet (As I'm new... and in the middle of a very long ingress process here. Hahaha). But I fully plan to incorporate FAA materials in my videos in my socmed post rotation



Also.. cinemagraphs are always fun and a fan favorite! Creative way to make dynamic media with static source artworks.