This is an idea I’ve been toying with for quite some time. Letting programming and painting meet somewhere in the neighborhood of illustration / animation / motion graphics / creative coding / games. There’s not much of a concept yet, it will take some trial and error, but a few central ideas are: each illustration should work as a stand-alone still imageI want to “add magic” by animating things (the…

Other than interactive live applications, Processing can can also be used to generate cool animations from frame sequences! It‘s not so hard, but you need to consider a few things. Randomness If your animation uses random values, be aware that random() creates different results each time the program is run. To make sure you always get the same good-looking frame sequence of your choice, use randomSeed(). Recording the frame sequence…

Ever since I started drawing, trying to understand how ‘real artists’ work and think, I was often surprised to learn about something I knew from my own profession! Even between two activities so apparently far apart as pure logic and abstract thinking on one side and making colorful marks with emotional impact on the other, one can find resonance. Here’s the shortlist of some of my obvious and not-so-obvious findings:…