jonmadethis

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TRUCKIN’

A vibrant cityscape at dusk featuring neon signs and a striking red, triangular sculpture in the foreground, with ornate high-rise buildings in the background under a stormy sky.

Prompt: Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street. Chicago, New York, Detroit and it’s all on the same street. Your typical city involved in a typical daydream. An interpretation of lyrics from the Grateful Dead song “Truckin’.”

A WALRUS & A SPEEDBOAT

A vintage-style illustration showing a walrus with prominent tusks emerging from a bright orange and white striped boat on a blue textured background.

Prompt: A walrus vampire in high detail silk screen style driving a speed boat There was a walrus, I think maybe in Sweden or Norway or somewhere like that, I forget exactly where it was, but it was wrecking peoples…

NEVER SEEN BEFORE COLOR

A vibrant rainbow shining through a misty, mysterious forest with sparkling droplets on trees and a surreal, colorful aura in the background.

Prompt: A color nobody has ever seen before right now The results of this prompt were very unexpected. I don’t really think this is a color nobody has ever seen before but I appreciate the efforts.

COPPER SQUARES

An image of a grid of tarnished copper tiles showing various stages of oxidation, with colors ranging from deep browns to vibrant blues. some tiles are missing, revealing rough, dark patches underneath.

Prompt: 36 square pieces of copper of equal size placed on the floor in a grid with no spaces between the copper pieces Based on a work by Carl Andre, I was experimenting to see how well AI would be…

LEAFY #1

A cheerful graphic with a cute, smiling cannabis leaf character holding a joint, set against a pink background with stars and the text "happy 420" and "pretty trippy shop.

A 420 video promo for the “Pretty Trippy Shop” an Etsy store that sold custom rolling trays and papers. This was made using the mesh points to animate an object. It was my first experiment with using the mesh points…

DUKE OF ERB

A stylized emblem featuring a white silhouette of a man with a beard on a black background, surrounded by yellow stars and decorative scrolls, with the text "duke of erb" in yellow at the bottom.

An animation of the Duke of Erbs logo with sound effects. This was the very first thing I made using After Effects. It was a good learning experience because it touched on a lot of basic elements of what I…

ANIMATED PHONE SWIPE

Illustration of a hand cursor about to click on a digital tablet displaying a list, set against a plain salmon pink background.

Learning how to move things within another object. This was a pretty neat project. I learned how to animate within animations by making separate scenes and combining them together into a single animation.

STAR

Abstract green glowing shapes arranged on a black background, resembling a stylized, minimalistic pair of frog legs.

Learning about using trim path by following the outline of a star shape. Trim Path is a pretty cool tool. You can do a lot of really cool things with this simple tool.

GRASS BLOCK

Illustration of a 3d isometric soil cube with a top layer of green grass and underlying layers showing brown soil with lighter brown speckles, depicting soil texture and composition.

Animating the creation of a isometric block of land. Practing animating things moving in different directions at the same time and different times. Similar to the “City with Cars.”

TOWN WITH CARS

Aerial view of a city intersection with cars, a yellow truck, trees, pedestrian crosswalks, and city buildings in an isometric drawing style.

This is one of the first more complicated animations I made with After Effects. This one involved working with isometric drawings and having multiple objects moving at the same time and different speeds. It was tricky to get all the…