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Drawing Bison

jacobmake — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:15:46 +0000

I read this book a while back. The American Bison as a symbol/metaphor was one of the books main themes. The animal was powerful, abundant, and dumb as a rock. There are some interesting bits about Buffalo Nickels in the book. Buffalo nickels were a part of my childhood. I remember studying the powerful beast on the back of these worn weathered coins.

From the book I learned that the actual animal used for the model lived a sickly caged circus-type existence in New York City. Not exactly the symbol of adventure and wide-open prairies it evoked for me as a kid, but a perfect metaphor for the relationship bison had with North American settlers.

These are the output from a little Flash experiment.

Ghastly Vapor Flourish

jacobmake — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:48:16 +0000

Again tooling around w/ Trapcode for someone on the print team. Might make it into a comp for Ghost of Versaillles.

Simple Nest

jacobmake — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:51:26 +0000

I’m learning to draw with code. A lot of what I’ve seen out there in the interwebs is based on mathematical theories named after dudes from the sixties and seventies. I’m inspired by all that, but I’m also interested in recreating systems in nature through generative art. Here is a simple nest I drew with AS3, it’s based on some basic circle math I picked up here.

The twigs are all positioned and sized w/ code. The eggs shape was made by hand, but positioned w/ code. In the future I plan to further randomize the shape, color and characteristic of each twig.

Pink Box

jacobmake — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:05:17 +0000

Behold, my very first generative comp. The image of a neon hot pink, scribbled, slightly-rotated square popped into my head one day. Maybe I’ve been listening to too much Justice. Made w/ Actionscript 3 and the Bezier curve fitting function built into Tweener.