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I Am In A Church In Gravesend Listening To Old Vinyl And Drinking Coffee

I worked with a collection of your quotes, full of extremes of emotion, and in there amongst the chaos was this beautiful grounded everyday comment, “I’m in a Church In Gravesend Drinking Coffee”, which Michael McAfee has turned into an animated story built from the wider collection of quotes from where it came.

Watch the latest video project via my link in bio from the On Being project

I made a lot of music with the more extreme quotes from the database, but being has as much to do with the everyday and things being ok too, so this was just as relevant a quote and experience, and something I wanted to include.

Within the song, I decided to use the sounds of me walking through forest, which is my own equivalent of the idea I thought the quote was about, but I wanted to find some similarly grounded instrumental source as well.

I hope you enjoy something within there today, and there’s more delve into behind this project as we go along.

Visit: onbeing.maxcooper.net for more info

#creativeart #visualart #digitalcreative #audiovisual #onbeing #immersiveexperience #3d

I Am In A Church In Gravesend Listening To Old Vinyl And Drinking Coffee

I worked with a collection of your quotes, full of extremes of emotion, and in there amongst the chaos was this beautiful grounded everyday comment, “I’m in a Church In Gravesend Drinking Coffee”, which Michael McAfee has turned into an animated story built from the wider collection of quotes from where it came.

Watch the latest video project via my link in bio from the On Being project

I made a lot of music with the more extreme quotes from the database, but being has as much to do with the everyday and things being ok too, so this was just as relevant a quote and experience, and something I wanted to include.

Within the song, I decided to use the sounds of me walking through forest, which is my own equivalent of the idea I thought the quote was about, but I wanted to find some similarly grounded instrumental source as well.

I hope you enjoy something within there today, and there’s more delve into behind this project as we go along.

Visit: onbeing.maxcooper.net for more info

#creativeart #visualart #digitalcreative #audiovisual #onbeing #immersiveexperience #3d

Introducing our next Beyond The Ceiling feature, @mcafee.design.

This month, we’re featuring Chicago-based artist Michael Mcafee, who transports us to a realm full of detailed and rich environments, animated with creatures from another world, akin to the dimensions of HR Giger and Salvador Dali.

Michael takes viewers to scenes that blend dream and reality, expressed beautifully through careful selections of color and flow that turn the screens into portals that allow us to see these amorphous creatures from within McAfee’s creative universe.

Be sure to Stop into @900shops & LOOK UP to peer into Michael McAfee’s captivating worlds.

Rabbit Island -- Moturoa

#trippyart #creature #cyberpunk #surrealart #digitalart #c4d #vfx

41°07'24.9"S 173°01'32.2"E

Excerpt from the latest @maxcoopermax - With Me music video. Check it out on YouTube to hear the track ⚡

#weirdart #surreal #digitalart #simulation #trippy

With Me - an audiovisual collab with @maxcoopermax

Max and I wanted to explore the idea of entities that travelled between and manipulated spacetime with this piece -- as the video progressed, the severity of the rift in space would magnify.

@vincemckelvie took the lead on the glitch scenes. Debugging artifacts and UI elements from the software we used made their way into the piece, hopefully giving the feeling that these seemingly real scenes are actually the constraints of time & space that are breaking down -- doing these segments in a videogames engine allowed us to use custom made shaders that generate feedback loops in realtime.

Filmed handheld on a phone in New Zealand.

Thanks @myyyraa for extra compositing help 🙏

#audiovisual #surreal #glitch #conceptualart #creaturedesign #ufo #alien #unrealengine #vaporwave #idm

88 frames, 88 different locations. Hand cut and wheatpasted around Chicago.

Branching out from my typical workflow and trying out techniques that many of my artist heroes have mastered. My experiments resulted in a wonked-out wheatpaste + stop-motion + digital art hybrid piece.

Inspired largely by the paper and stop motion work from a mentor of mine, @anismist 🙏

Music: Max Graef - Jazz 104

#stopmotion #framebyframe #wheatpasteart #digitalart #b3d #c4d #buckuback #motionlovers #itsnicethat #motiongraphicscollective #motionmate #gfxmob #danimation #urbanstreetart #collageartwork

Phyla Vector
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This piece began with my fascination of underwater flatworms -- their method of movement specifically. Looking at their profile as they swim, their flat silhouette seems to mimic an almost perfect sine wave. For such a primitive creature, they move in such an elegant and hypnotizing way. I needed to emulate this somehow.

What began as a series of cloth simulation experiments has turned into a full-blown Polymorphic piece, elevated by my frequent collaborator, @drasko_v
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#weirdart #trippy #underwatercreatures #deepseacreatures #cinema4d #ifyouhigh #graphicgang #buckuback #damngoodmove #moebius #retrofuturism #worms #newretrowave #cyberart #creaturedesign #graphicgang #nftart #mdcommunity #itsnicethat #surrealartist

POLYMORPHIC aired on @adultswim last Tuesday through Thursday 😳

The above segment I directed exists as a part of a larger episode of the infamous show called Off The Air. I shared the screen with some other incredible artists such as @jimdenevan @fergemanden @zach.lieberman @cool3dworld — the full episode will eventually be released on YouTube and HBO Max.

@drasko_v scored the original track for this piece titled Illusionary. Thank you so much homie for elevating this piece. Thank you @myyyraa for the hand-drawn textures I use everywhere. ❤️

It's been a goal of mine to work with Adult Swim for so long, not to mention so many of my artist and designer heros have been featured on Off The Air. So excited to share my work in a slightly longer format here. ⚡

#adultswim #weirdart #3dart #animatedart #motionographer #itsnicethat #c4dart #twentytwohalo #creaturedesign #fantasyillustration #ifyouhigh #conceptualart #lowfi #mdcommunity #surrealismo #newmediaart #artandtechnology #melancholy

Inverse Agonist — a piece I was commissioned to make for @edc_lasvegas a few months back. I've since leveled this animation up by adding a new environment & wobbly arms ✋

@drasko_v produced original audio
@myyyraa animated some 2D textures

Thanks @noa.mcabian for hooking me up with EDC 🙏

#trippyart #surrealart #snapmag #buckuback #creaturedesign #lowfi #vj #edclasvegas #edmlifestyle #linework #motionlovers #doperadcool #ifyouhigh #weirdart #c4d #howiseedatworld #moebius #visualfodder #90sanimeaesthetic #aftereffects #supersequential #lucidscreen

Seppuku Pathogen — my latest piece for an art collection with @rengokulegends!

The collection features work from incredible artists that I admire & respect -- @emanshiu, @rezaa_afsharr, @madmaraca, @nogland to name a few!

It means a lot to me to be working alongside some of the artists that inspired me to enter the creative world (and is humbling because my piece is def the shittiest of the bunch 💩)

Thanks @drasko_v for the original audio & for putting this collection together! Thanks @myyyraa for the animated textures I used everywhere in this piece ❤️

#weirdart #visionaryart #beautifulbizarre #hifructose #surreal42 #surrealismartcommunity #mgcollective #audiovisualart #vj #damngoodmove #aeguru #aiartcommunity #itsnicethat #thedesigntip #deepseacreatures #oceancreatures #creaturedesign #fa_hypnotic

Seppuku Pathogen — my latest piece for an art collection with @rengokulegends!

The collection features work from incredible artists that I admire & respect -- @emanshiu, @rezaa_afsharr, @madmaraca, @nogland to name a few!

It means a lot to me to be working alongside some of the artists that inspired me to enter the creative world (and is humbling because my piece is def the shittiest of the bunch 💩)

Thanks @drasko_v for the original audio & for putting this collection together! Thanks @myyyraa for the animated textures I used everywhere in this piece ❤️

#weirdart #visionaryart #beautifulbizarre #hifructose #surreal42 #surrealismartcommunity #mgcollective #audiovisualart #vj #damngoodmove #aeguru #aiartcommunity #itsnicethat #thedesigntip #deepseacreatures #oceancreatures #creaturedesign #fa_hypnotic

Ephyra Core

Made in collaboration with @myyyraa with original audio by @drasko_v! This piece is for sale on Foundation for those interested! Link in my story.

Developing my visual style, I've made it a point to give my pieces an illustrative aesthetic. Almost like they're drawn by hand despite being created digitally with modern tools —

I'm excited to work with Myra because it allowed me to incorporate elements that are drawn traditionally, animated frame-by-frame. You can see her animations sprinkled everywhere in this piece — in the head of the creature, the vegetation that grows in the path behind the creature, and super subtley in the environments where I used her sketches as textural elements. This extra layer helps sell the stylized look I'm going for - super happy with how it turned out. Go peep her work!

A lot of people also ask me about how I make my animations, so I'm sharing a free download for the project files for this piece. You can download it on my website under the 'resources' section :)

Definitely fell off my weekly cadence here — I am always struggling to find the balance between personal and professional output it seems. Weekly projects helped me dial in my skills and get my name out there - I never thought Google would be interested in working with me! But by the same token, I struggle to have a life outside work with this model — I'm rethinking a more sustainable way. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks for peeping my stuff! ❤️⚡

#motionlovers #darksurrealism #cyberpunk #3dartwork #buckuback #retrofuturism #mdcommunity #taxcollection #itsnicethat #trippyart #psychedelicart #bizarreart #artdiscovered #brainfeeder #comicillustration #moebius #c4d #artchicago

Ephyra Core

Made in collaboration with @myyyraa with original audio by @drasko_v! This piece is for sale on Foundation for those interested! Link in my story.

Developing my visual style, I've made it a point to give my pieces an illustrative aesthetic. Almost like they're drawn by hand despite being created digitally with modern tools —

I'm excited to work with Myra because it allowed me to incorporate elements that are drawn traditionally, animated frame-by-frame. You can see her animations sprinkled everywhere in this piece — in the head of the creature, the vegetation that grows in the path behind the creature, and super subtley in the environments where I used her sketches as textural elements. This extra layer helps sell the stylized look I'm going for - super happy with how it turned out. Go peep her work!

A lot of people also ask me about how I make my animations, so I'm sharing a free download for the project files for this piece. You can download it on my website under the 'resources' section :)

Definitely fell off my weekly cadence here — I am always struggling to find the balance between personal and professional output it seems. Weekly projects helped me dial in my skills and get my name out there - I never thought Google would be interested in working with me! But by the same token, I struggle to have a life outside work with this model — I'm rethinking a more sustainable way. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks for peeping my stuff! ❤️⚡

#motionlovers #darksurrealism #cyberpunk #3dartwork #buckuback #retrofuturism #mdcommunity #taxcollection #itsnicethat #trippyart #psychedelicart #bizarreart #artdiscovered #brainfeeder #comicillustration #moebius #c4d #artchicago

Pyrene Freebase — Weekly proj. 05

A few days late on this weekly project, might have to put a shit piece out for the next one to get back on schedule 😅

@drasko_v with the amazing IDM beat / audio on this. Thanks homie!

Feeling nocturnal lately - need to get my sleep schedule in check. Seems a lot of people working from home are running into this.

Onto the next project. Thanks for peeping my work! ♥️

#itsnicethat #hifructosemag #fubiz #design #stylizedart #characterdesign #juxtapoz #3dart #creatureanimation #creativemobs #vfxnews #mdcommunity #motiondesigners #surrealartist #beautifulbizarre #thegraphicspr0ject #trippyvideos #synthwave #newretrowave