Sunday Update

I’ve had a fabulous weekend so I thought I’d do a show and tell.

First up:

Edible bread! See? Fluffy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. -dance-

Ever since Covid began, I’ve envied all those people who proudly displayed their homemade bread. Mine was always a flop. Now, almost five years later, I finally managed to bake something good enough to eat. So happy.

Next: we haz a freezer! I’ve only just started putting food into it so I’ll post a pic once it’s nice and full.

Last, but not least, a project that has been bugging me since Anonymole fed one of my Tukti pics into an AI, and a short video came out the other end. The first second or so caught Little Miss’ expression beautifully. The last couple of seconds were terrible, but the seed had been planted: could I do something better?

Ever since then I’ve been playing around with the old fashioned way of creating animations whereby you create a sequence of images and flip through them fast enough to make the character look as if it’s actually moving. This video shows the making of a flip book:

This is my take on the flip book using CorelDraw, vector graphics, and stop motion animation:

My handmade effort is a long, long way from perfect, but those five seconds took a huge amount of work so I’m not going to be too hard on myself. I managed to bring Missy to life, just for a moment or two, and I’m counting that a success.

Hope you’ve all had a fabulous weekend too.

Cheers,
Meeks