BLOGAHOMA

Yes, I am on a roll. Oklahoma has beautiful sunsets. Use the plus sign to zoom etc.

Taken with the Pentax Optio W90 made into panoramic on the fly. Previous photo from Canon Powershot 640 assembled in Photoshop.

Much what I have picked up about Photoshop has been from my husband. Not everything he shows me is of interest to me but I really like Zoomify. I used it to show the expanse of our front yard.

It is hard, if not impossible, to figure what starts and stops creative urges. It was during my husband’s chemo session I decided that watching TV or playing endless games of Sudoku was not a valuable use of this time. On chemo session number two I brought along a sketch book and drew anything with no particular end in sight. Some drawings were ho-hum others actually hummed. From there I scanned them in added color and began working them out in 3D followed by animation. I was experiencing the joy again that comes from creating. Once the creativity clicked in I woke up in the morning with half baked ideas and proceeded to finish cooking them up. I went back to Cheetah 3D software with ideas and began constructing things with more precision, improving where I had left off months before. Saying to myself “not good enough” when it wasn’t. Setting goals and story lines for animations I head dreamed up. Most of what I am doing is for the pure entertainment value, set to music and sound effects and shared across the social network.

And so “Bumper Dome” happened, a zany scenario in which 5 cloned Bump Staplers become the cars for the Dodgem Ride. Going at each other with zeal. I planned out the moves from and overhead view point sending one stapler careening into another until the chain reaction would be what expect from a Dodgem ride including one poor stapler trapped between two bullies. Aw! I thought to myself what if I mounted the camera on the stapler so we could see what the stapler saw. So funny, I loved the joke. A handful of people got it, loved it and it made them smile, which multiplied my joy in having made the animation in the first place. On equal footing to being creative for me is learning something new in the process. Frankly I don’t see the sense of even doing something if I haven’t dialed it up a notched. Novelty is my energy drink.

Right now my creative energy has been set loose. Will it be stomped on? I hope not. I have so much more to learn.