Colored version of Strawberries by OhPattyG. Done by hand with sharpies. 

I actually thought the effect on the back of the paper was pretty cool too, so I'm uploading it as well. 

One can stop the clock. No one can stop the time.

Remix of OhPattyG's strawberries. I may have gone slightly mad making this...

I can upload the PSD if necessary - all 128 layers of it :P

I was half asleep when I threw this simple little ditty together, so sorry for all the distortion, play at your own risk, :)

(lyrics)

I am, leaving for the weekend, through the air,  I don’t know where,

I know, I’ve been to many places, now it’s time, for something new,

I have, Never Been to Paris,

Pack my bag, save me a seat,

I have, Never Been to Paris

Now I’m glad, we finally meet,

It’s been, long since a vacation, look at the skies, it pleases the eyes,

I don’t, have a bit of home sick, I’m gonna be, excited for me,

I have, Never Been to Paris

Pack My bag, save me a seat,

I have, Never Been to Paris

Now I’m glad, we finally meet,

Take me, all across the planet, up in the clouds, we’re up and we’re down,

Save me, from the repition, everyday, I don’t wanna stay,

I have, Never Been to Paris

Pack My bag, save me a seat,

I have, Never Been to Paris

Now I’m glad, we finally meet,

:-) glooomy world of scarried birds is waiting for your storrrriessss.... :-)

I meant for the butterflies to be more subtle with the background but the way I created the other file didn't do it. Let's try this.

This is for jesterlady, tried to give it an ominous spin :)

We are almost there. (i think). I have put all the background scenes, some props into the animation. What's left to do is putting the parents' characters into scene.

ISSUES:

a) Due to my limited after effects knowledge (this is my 3rd after effects project EVER), I was not able to integrate some props (strawberry bootlaces packet) into joe's hand as seamlessly as I want. I can only think of doing frame by frame (masking it out) but we are running out of time for that. Unless anyone else have a better idea how to do it more efficiently.

WHAT I NEED:-

a) parents: Mom and dad characters - mom (back view as well) so when joe greets her it looks seamless.

b) Feedbacks: Leave some comments on how to make this better and contribute more elements fast. I will try to integrate as much as I can.

"Welcome to the Store of Life! Can I interest you in buying some Time? Or perhaps, you'll take a few Chances?"  - JohnnyClyde's tiny story "Store of Life".

It has been a while since I last did any illustration for tiny stories!  Ever since I saw this story by JohnnyClyde I have been thinking of illustrating it.  I got the idea for the illustration early last month but work has been crazy at the time and then I went home to Hong Kong for a 3 weeks holiday... The laziness resulting from the holiday almost made me forget all the little details I had in mind for this >_<

P.S. I wonder how many people would understand my terrible sense of humour...

I think the first shot would work the best for "Everything is on fire all the time." Other fire shots might come in handy.

I don't have my Canon 10D.. I can't take good quality pictures of my traditional artworks, so I'll be using my tablet more. :c

just a random midnight gif, though I honestly don't know how it could possibly be used for hitrec.

Thanks for viewing!

UH OH. gif doesn't work. supposed to look like this: http://jazminny.tumblr.com/post/16280118955/mmm-triangles

Found on: http://www.archive.org/details/renegade_girl

I know this clip is a little bit longer than the 10'' asked, but i thought it was so damn badass that i did not know which part to choose. So i leave the choice to anyone who finds it interesting to the LRRH collab. :-) 

I worked this out lyrically as a narrative from a man's perspective. It opens up his mind so the listener hears his thoughts and see his actions as he discovers that he has fallen victim to infidelity.

Lyrics:

I heard you coming in
Up the stairs and in the room
I know where you've been, you've been invisible

You started to undress
My stomach Started turning
Not with happiness, I wish I was

I could die, and set fire to this sky

When silence is broken
I hear every word you say
Now back to silence
Timing is everything

I watched it coming in
Up the stairs and in the room
Flint to the fluid, brilliant and beautiful

I lit the furnace
My stomach started turning
I can't control this
Timing is everything

Take it into your editing program, ditch the audio, apply clips appropriately. Feel free to slow them down and stuff, anything really that matches your edit.

DR SWEET-TOOTH'S SHOW OF WONDER

this was a show like nothing before
it had acts like you could never imagine
the most unique creeps, the freakiest of geeks
and in just one man’s head they were fashioned

“i’m Dr Sweet Tooth”
the ring-master bellowed
from a soapbox atop a brass cage
“we’ve a wonderful night
so don’t fright, just sit tight”
as bright flood-lights lit up the stage

“our pianist below has seven fingers each hand
but chooses to play with his toes
our trapezists are blind, dumb, deaf and wild
and neither can smell with their nose”

“how on earth do they smell?” one man, had to ask
“awful” Sweet-Tooth jeered, with a grin
but the laughter was stopped by gun fire shot
as twin shadows rose, limber and thin

the ringside retreated
front row seats, once a treat
were a stones throw from two amputees
gangrenous and bloody from months of neglect
splints tied to both of their knees

“monsters!” men screamed
half to warn, half in jest
as the stilt-walkers stumbled about
every child in the room cheered at their grace
but every mother did nought else but pout

catching and tossing
one tip-toedly toppled
and fell heels over head to the floor
dropping knives, torches and clubs
was clumsy enough
but it was the eye-ball that caused the guffaw

“that looks like an eye!”
a little boy cried
and would have kicked it
had it not blinked

“it’s a dodo eye, boy!
the last of it’s kind”
but the little boy wasn’t convinced
“if that is it’s eye then where is it’s socket?
and, more so, where is it’s head?”
“well, my good lad, i’m glad that you asked
Act II of the show can commence”

infected, ill-fed, by all means close to dead
all his feathers were matted and flat
weary and coarse, worse for wear, he flopped forth
in a waist-coat and forlorn hat

held breath and hung lip, the boy started to quip
but Sweet-Tooth’s old whip got there first
it moved through the air like the tail of a mare
and as it cracked the bird started it’s verse

such round of applause
as it squealed, squeaked and squawked
all daylights caught in it’s wonder
unlucky for them and a curse ever since
an uneven fate for their blunder

they didn’t look up, not a second, not once
from this unusual comic display
they didn’t notice the freaks hobbling out of the tent
or the lions being freed from their cage

Dr Sweet-Tooth proclaimed, still top and tails
on his brass cage, dapper and proud
“this cage that i stand on is meant for one man
built not to keep in but keep out”

the lions let roar as folk ran for the door
but the lions made short shrift of that
and with Dr Sweet-Tooth safe in his cage
he watched the pride slowly get fat

“those who survive, will join our show
swords for supper and fire for dessert
and those who are weak and meet their demise
well, i’ve heard dying on stage is much worse”

this was a show like nothing before
and to be fair, there’s been nought like it since
but every night that i heard
“welcome, ladies and gentlemen”
well, by gosh, it didn’t half make me wince

Just messing around on a Sunday afternoon.

"Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
Deal out Jacks or Better on a blanket by the stairs
I’ll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past
And send me off to bed for evermore" - Tom Waits

Another contribution for And A New Earth Typography.

Mixed media: acrylic on canvas and all the fuzzy old photographs I could find.

I'm fixated on this sentence:)

So, this has no sound and I don't have the words on there (wanted to leave that open for other people to do), but it's based off our our text RECords. The basic premise is that instead of waiting for the hopes and dreams to return the next day, the heart goes ahead and turns the water on. To its delight, all those happy thoughts return and it is able to fly off to Neverland.

In particular this was supposed to be a merging of the Neverland/D'nalreven and Recycled Dreams idea that kouralilly was championing we work on for our final in an earlier post on the forum. I actually had an idea of how to transform this into something we could add to RegularJOE's Independence collab too, if we wanted to do it. Anyway, I hope y'all like it, the first few moments are familiar, but everything after that is new ;) Cheers!

Advances kouralilly, as she is the one who I saw suggest to pull these two concepts together :D Unless I find that she has already been advanced, lol, then I'll have to see who else I can push forward... :)

Started this yesterday afternoon and finished this evening. I haven't edited video in such a long time so I was a little rusty.

I hope you all like it! :o)

Maybe this is what it looks like before it is cut into strips ;D

Here is the video piece I have created from belcath1981's image of the same name.  I added the text to slowly come in and then fade.  This beautiful piano piece is from tprove, and it is a favorite of mine.

I really love this piece and feel like there is a story here, perhaps a tiny story and an animation?  I think this someone could really make something great!

Enjoy, and I hope both belcath1981 and tprove enjoy what I've done here!  :-)

I made this background According to Joe's Strawberry Bootlaces selects! maybe it could work for something! :)

i don't know what is up with the audio, but please ignore it :)

http://www.archive.org/details/Televisi1960

I wrote a composition called Desolate Twilight that I thought would be a perfect contribution to the Independence category for Sundance. :)

Picture yourself alone in a desert free from everything, with the beautiful colors from the sunset in front of you...

Enjoy!

A little something I worked on a while ago.

Made with watercolor paints, and straws.

And lot's of blowing. -__-'

Model is my sister, Angela.

Another composition that i wrote that would be great for the independence category in the Sundance Festival. :)

Enjoy! 

Since I saw this fantastic landscapes, I knew that I have to do something with them! So yesterday I wasn't able to sleep and well the inspiration came like at 1 am in the morning and this is the result, I hope everyone likes it, especially Meta, thanks for this wonderful record and for the inspiration! :)

background picture 3 - supposed to represent passage of time. A bit wild, I know  :-/

bg picture 4 - supposed to represent faded dreams and mirror. The mirror is located in the same spot the window is in bg pic 1. For (potential) transition sake.

I've always liked the sound of this little loop I made on the train to Boston. I pieced together a few bits into something that resembles a "song". Mabey someone can add to it.

This is an element I had created of falling strawberries for the bit where DayGlo talks about Strawberry Flavour.

This is has a transparent background, so looks black in the preview above.

The Strawberry element is resourced from a photo by Duddelmaus. (Couldn't resource it?)

Just some acoustic guitar lines I recorded. 88bpm, D major.

Here is a full assembly draft of "Little Red Riding Hood."

Note:

This is a low-res file. The high-res is 2.7 GBs.

My first attempt at animation. :)

wildflower done with pastels and charcoal pencil.

This is the first slide I've worked on for the animation we're putting together based on results from the Collab Game. I can tell this will take a while to do, but hopefully that means when it is done, it will be fun for everyone to watch :)

this is a very short stop motion animation, for use wherever! 

Please help me finish this song that I've had for the last few years.

The title says it all.

Some portraits.

Childhood dreams go up in smoke when reality rears it's ugly head.

You chase a mansion made of wood, brick, or stone and forget your castle of candy and ice cream. What kind of a cruel life allows us to grow old?!!!

for those of us that wish we could be at the Sundance or simply just wish we could be some place else ♥

I know this is beyond late for a Sundance possibility, but when I watched Dr. Gory's video composition I knew that I really wanted to make my own version of "and a new earth…" (REPRISE) At least for my own animation and video editing practice.

Thank you to everyone for their amazing contributions, the hitRECord creativity shines throughout this piece. There were so many wonderful resources* to choose from and use.

This was a lot of work, especially touching up a lot of the text images to make them key correctly, but a lot of fun too. And I learned a lot through the work.

What do you think? Please post comments/crits.

[*NOTE: SO MANY Resources! - Please let me know if I missed any. ]

Quick costume!

A project of mine that required many patterns!

I always thought independance was like a beautiful dance... until I realized I was just spelling it wrong.

To clarify: the job I was offered would be a 9 to 5 (which I forgot to mention), thus, I'd no longer have my mornings free to go on auditions. Thus, bye bye acting career. Thus, no. Hell no!

Pencil drawing delivered to my sister's boyfriend, because he loves lions ;)

"I know what it's like to be dead."

Just me being rambly about independence. I know this may be too late, but I wanted to say something about this topic because it is important to me.

Thank you for listening. c: x

Equal parts Julian Fellowes, Stephen Fry, Clive Candy and Tobias Fünke

Rather less strident than Todd's reading.

all fonts used are free for commercial use.

There is something that thrills me about letting a balloon go out of my hand & watching it float out of sight. I think what thrills me is the independence of that balloon, soaring at will, with no weight to this earth.

I was trying to think up a story for this little guy, but I couldn't think of anything. 

i saw diane's comment on briannaaleigh's "leaving" and i immediately thought of this.

i love the concept.