I animated a painting I'd made and composed some music for it :)

I used to share my attempts at learning painting (digital, using photoshop) on these forums quite frequently, but I began to get busier and busier with college work that prevented me from both blogging or painting too much regularly.

I've been missing both, and while I continue to procrastinate that blog I've been meaning to write about the many interesting experiences I've had in life, (or that have been made interesting by sitting down and thinking about how movie-esque life can be), I managed enough time in the past few months to paint a new painting, and then eventually animate it.

My personal achievement is that I finally learnt FL Studio, which I'd wanted to for a couple of years but it's complexity always led to confusions and me giving up on it. Somehow, this time I stuck with and didn't let go throughout the confusions and frustrations. I just kept trying, failing, creating crappy music, and then trying again. By the end I was able to create a track that at least satisfied me personally.

The painting also came after a period of terrible looking paintings that had me doubting my ability to draw. I felt like I'd forgotten everything I'd learnt.

So overall it's been a pretty good experience creating this painting and then the video, and it makes me happy cause it sort of shares some things very important to me personally.

Hope you like it!

I do like it!

Very beautiful. It's giving me that warm teary-eyed kinda smile. :)

A sublime animation. The lighting and colours are particularly gorgeous.

You essentially made a Video Game

Awesome job btw

Yeah. it looks great duder.

Really good job.

The music combined with the animation evokes a certain feeling in me. Great job, duder!

@viciousbearmauling:

Thanks a lot! It makes me feel really good to know it evoked such a feeling in you :)

Wow you've made me so happy by saying that ^^ Thanks a lot.

@eviternal: @ilikepopcans: Thanks a lot :)

Haha I don't see how but thanks :D

"I animated a painting I'd made and composed some music for it"

This is essentially game design minus the game lol

Awesome job, duder! I'm so jealous of people with genuine artistic talent. All I can draw are stick figures haha.

Very nice, it looks and sounds great! :D

This turned out great! The animation is really fluid and the music works well with it. I especially love when it turns to night. Hope to see more of these in the future.

This is really beautiful, and it really does evoke a lot of emotion. Wonderful job!

This really touched me. Great job! It's beautiful.

That was great! :D More please! :)

Very nice!

@hamst3r: Thanks! You're the king of all this music and video production things so it's nice to hear feedback from you :D

@afabs515: Thanks :) You should keep looking and trying though if art seems to attract you. Try different mediums?

@xalienxgreyx: Haha alright, that's good then :D

Great job, man! I really like the music, especially once the vocals come in. Good stuff!

@avantegardener: @themanwithnoplan: @jctango: @rabbithearted: @disaya:

Thanks so much for the encouragement! I'm really happy what I made made you guys feel something. That's all I could want :)

I'll definitely make more of these whenever possible

That was beautiful. Getting ready to go to bed and saw your thread. Now I can drift off peacefully as I feel cleansed for some reason. Thanks for sharing.

@zombiepenguin9: Thanks :)

Oh wow that makes me feel really happy :) Thank you!

That's amazing... I'm going to have to go through your past forum posts / blogs now to see what I've been missing :D

Coooooooould you remix it into a dark and gritty dubstep version instead?

(Awesome wok, duder.)

I LOVE IT

Seriously, I kinda seriously had the feels, well done, 10/10 would feels again

Holy shit dude, nice work. I'd suggest toning down the amount and speed of the falling leaves; might fit better with the scene.

Well done, sir

Yeah ... you are only 150k lines of code away from making a videogame ^^ ... awesome job duder.

@hurricaneivan29: Thank you !

@angre_leperkan439: Wow thanks :) I love sharing the feels

Thanks :) Yeah you're right, looking at it again I realized slower leaves would've given it all a more "floaty" feel. I've seen some vids on Cherry blossoms falling though, sometimes they just fall like snow/rain.

I'd also planned initially to make them float far into the distance towards the house, but I wasn't able to work out the 3d and wind simulation parts properly enough. Looked weird

Which is exactly what I said, Thanks!

Looking at the video gave me a feeling similar to that of Brothers' scenery; a beautiful yet sad kind of calm.

Fantastic work...

That's pretty cool! Nice work, duder!

Excellent work. Inspirational!