'To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.' Thoreau was an interesting guy indeed, work shouldn't be considered as a means to an end, if you don't enjoy what you are doing or at the very least find it interesting, its time to do something else. Nothing will age you faster than being in a job you hate

I just love a road trip, lol

Love your playing on this. I can identify with the skill on this as a guitarist myself. Beautiful visuals and great tune. Yep you meet some interesting people on the road for sure and some not so easy to work with as well, my friend did a long stint as a road manager for ...er 'A well known female folk singer songwriter' on a number of U.S tours and would call me in the middle of the night in the UK really upset that she had smashed another high end Martin acoustic in a temper tantrum in the studio (A long series of wrecked Martins) I understand mental health issues and anger management problem but please, not the Martin, go smash something of lesser relevance like a Porsche or something, lol. I'll be looking in on your stuff from time to time, nice to meet a fellow guitarist out here who is into animation too!

Y'know what, you're right! Here's the deal, because I do listen to subscribers, I have one more weird one that's done and ready to go on here then the next one I'll be going all big budget inspirational with everyone, Stanley Kubrick level cinematography with a soundtrack to match, I already made the music with a concept of a project in mind and the music itself inspires me. I have a 30 second clip in the can that's just been sitting around waiting for a bigger conceptual idea and a direction to go. After reading your comment I started to expand the idea today and the soundtrack fits the visuals. you can't have dark without light

And you know what? I did some work on this to fine tune the climactic scene today after taking your point on board. (Yes I'm weird and tend to do endings first then build stories around them), my god its powerful stuff, I may just have hit a barrier that I think its actually possible to make yourself cry watching a movie that you yourself are making...

Als ich jünger war, mochte ich diesen Stil sehr. Ich habe viele Bands wie Zoin Train, Dreadzone, Freedom Masses gesehen, wenig bekannte Bands, die aber der Dub-Reggae-Szene in Großbritannien ihren Stempel aufgedrückt haben. Ich habe viele schöne Erinnerungen an dieses Musikgenre, ich erinnere mich daran, UB40 wieder gesehen zu haben Ende der 70er-Jahre, ein wirklich scharfkantiges Thema zu einer Zeit, als sich das Vereinigte Königreich in einer Beschäftigungskrise befand und einer von zehn arbeitslos war. Der Name UB40 war der Code oben auf dem Arbeitslosengeldformular, das man jede Woche zum Arbeitsamt bringen musste, um Sozialhilfe zu erhalten. Harte Zeiten, die der Musikszene eine dunkle Seite gaben und 1976/77 zum Zorn der Punkszene führten

Thanks Charlie! It seems that the soundtrack. which is copyright (which I knew) actually cannot be viewed at all in 4% of the countries in the world, although not sure which 4% you tube refer to. Copyright laws are weird.

Only found out a couple of hours ago that I was awarded a creative partnership so lets see how it goes. Michael is cool over there he's running a great project. I tried a few lip sync packages over the last year or so but Hedra are the best. It adds some complications into you tube as I need to add subtitles to get a wider audience but its worth the effort. I can't wait for Hedra to get a 16:9 widescreen option (which hasn't been released yet) then I can get away from green screening characters onto widescreen backgrounds. A tip if you are using Hedra for green screening is don't use green, it doesn't work. Create your character and cut the character out then place it onto a pure pink background (no idea why pink works so well but it always works) then you can upload your character to Hedra with a pink background and do the lip sync. Then once done put your talking character onto any background image you choose, then you can use a movie editor like KDenlive or Capcut to chromakey out the pink background making it invisible so you can see whatever background you have chosen. With the 16:9 option this won't be necessary as you can use a character on an existing image you choose and upload that to Hedra, it will look far more natural once done.

@@francolli Yup. They really know their stuff. Thanks for a great indepth answer.

​@@francollivielleicht wegen den rosa Wolken 😀😉

@@francolli…I am speechless! This is 100% top notch. Check your email! Wow!

@@TheStillAndSilence Check the community section, I have done some initial Evil nines tests and had some success with one of the guitar characters with a cool animation of him rocking out with crazy fans bouncing around in the background, I'll run some tests on the other two tomorrow

You haven't seen what's coming next, lol! We are going to visit Alice in wonderland again and this time just when everyone was saying that Deforum is weird and you couldn't possibly make it any weirder I have news for everyone. I have made it a magnitude weirder, watch this space, its almost complete. As for the still and silence video its my first attempt at traditional animation which I'm not very good at but I have learned so much from making this video I'm sure I can use some of the techniques here in other animations as it has led me into some really interesting directions

Yep, jobs are a functional thing that allows me to animate...lol

Its really odd that 54 animations into this you tube page and this is the first time I have tried traditional animation...I'm so lazy at times but this animation has been a university of animation for me, I have really pushed the limits of my ham fisted skills but have learned a lot of things making this, it can only improve my stuff as some of the tricks here can be used on other animations to come

Glenn, I have busted my brain to the limit with some of the techniques employed in this. Not my area at all, way out of my comfort zone but I have learned so much in this my head hurts. Already I have started thinking how I can twist some of the skills here to my own personal weird imagination. I feel like a mad scientist who just walked into a brand new lab with lots of new equipment and ideas to utilize

Bald werden Sie noch ein paar seltsame Übergänge sehen, das ist meine neue Lieblingssache. Ich versuche schon seit einiger Zeit, einen Weg zu finden, von einer Deforum-Animation zu einer anderen zu wechseln. Jetzt habe ich den idealen Weg dafür gefunden, obwohl Deforum dadurch noch seltsamer wird als zuvor (keine schlechte Sache).

In my occupation being creepy is the thing that keeps me employed. I seem to have a gift for getting into the minds of the 1% out there who are even more disturbing than Deforum animations

@@francolli You've hinted at that before. And you may be in good company: I read “On Writing” by Stephen King a while back, the only book about writing that's actually useful for writers. In it, King describes in detail how his entire personal life was a chain of horrible events, implying (without actually saying it) that this influenced what he became professionally. So it looks like you, too, are projecting your inner horror onto your art. And art it is.

@@georgehimself6612 Its a bit of a release really. I have authored books in the past about similar things as a backlash against the disturbing nature of my work, but always under pseudonyms as I need to keep a low profile with that for many reasons, I guess every experience in life is a building block toward what you become. I've always been the kind of person that figured out really early that there are no negatives in life, only tough experiences that make you a better person. The more trauma I face in life the more creative I become even if in that moment I sometimes lean in strange creative directions

I find it difficult to stop an animation once I start one. This clocks in at 7 minutes, way past most people's attention span (aside from people who come to this channel) The result is that I always end up with a lot of material that I don't know what to do with. Maybe I should add an out takes section to this channel to get those online

@@TheStillAndSilence I'll put some minor adjustments in today as I have some free time then I'll send you the final one later. 😉

@@WestCoastAILabs in my occupation this is pretty close to the characters I meet every day

The tune has been rattling around in my head for a while now. I wanted to get an ethereal guitar sound like Jeff Beck from the Roger Waters album 'Amused to death' and I also wanted a voice like Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode. Both boxes checked I think...As for the animation I felt really constricted with work stuff lately and it keeping me from doing anything creative. So went a bit overboard with the style but the interesting thing from an animation standpoint is the transitions between Deforum sections which are really strange and captivating but are my new go to technique provided by Chinese company 'Kling' and U.S company 'Luma labs' Both are a cool way to transition between Deforum sections and so strange it distracts the eye for a couple of seconds before you get hit with the Deforum stuff again. Its the first time I have tried this but really pleased with the results

@@francolli Thanks for sharing your workflow, and also the prosess of involving music to your videos. I have heard about both Kling AI and LumaLabs, and they seem to be pretty up to par 🙂 For the most part I only like to watch and get blown into the sofa when stuff is changing and warping and doing it`s thing, but maybe I some day will dig a little deep? You never know, mate. AND YOU ARE GOOD!

Now there would be a good subject. Metropolis has a distinctive style for sure

Its definitely been my experience over the last four weeks. Work work work...Can't wait to retire then I can throw my entire brain into artistic stuff

I keep trying new stuff and doing new techniques to keep my brain interested, this animation has stuff in it I haven't tried before especially with the weird transitions. I seriously could have gone on for a lot longer with this but had to reel myself in at the 7 minute point (I'm such a nerd) I keep thinking of what would look good on giant stage screens thinking that at some point I'm going to get a chance to do that

I'm just a sucker for monotone. Too much time with the SLR cameras back in the day, its kinda burned into my brain at this point

@@francolli brings focus.

Give my regards to Norway. This musical piece makes me just sit and listen . I'm a musician myself and with a lot of music I will sit, listen but try to piece together the notes in my head and how it was put together. The first time I heard this particular musical piece I just sat in wonderment and realized it was beyond me to even try to figure it out. Patrick Cassidy who is the composer of this also sent me a message after seeing this as he enjoyed it as much as you did. I just felt like crying after hearing from the great composer himself out of the blue after I initially posted this on Twitter...Patrick is a rock god of musical composition and one of the best composers I have heard in my life, and I've been around a long time, lol

@@francolli Well said. Music is th best way to drive emotions where they are supposed to be and where they are supposed to hit. When the right tones hit you, you just know it. It hits the mood strings.

@@NeuroNicheDigitalDose-zz9fy then you will love the next one. I'm just about done and will come any day now, looking good so far

Strange isn't it? I love this video, I was thinking of a 'Flow 2' sequel but couldn't think of a subject, although flow didn't have a subject and I kept changing the scenes as I was going through it, so maybe random is better

Wherever she is she seems to be enjoying herself. I was thinking of doing a sequel of Alice through the looking glass at some point. That's where the Jabberwocky plays a role, could be really strange