I've always been fascinated by the mind-bending architectures of Maurits Cornelis Escher. After checking out an exhibition in Paris with two of my grandkids, I thought it'd be fun to make a short film for friends who couldn’t see it outside the city. Along the way, I realized—once again—that ACT5 is still the best tool for certain kinds of projects. For this one, I used Galaxi.ai, Cartoon Animator 5, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Sorry to miss yesterday's class/discussion. Friday afternoons are always crunch time for me, I'm always finishing up my next video. But I did want to share my latest. The animation isn't done with AI (I am still proudly using Cartoon Animator!), and the characters were designed and rigged by artists, but I did use AI to create most of the backgrounds/scenes in this one. (A few backgrounds from real artist - the side view of the dock, for example.) That saves me a lot of time and I'm happy with the results. I will continue to refine the look of the camp settings. I also experimented with some AI voice generation. The main characters (Dewey, Zack, Maya, Bob, the Moose, and one of the girl campers) are performed by my daughter and me, but I used typecast(dot)ai to create the voices for the rest of the young campers in the first story. I have mixed feelings about the results, let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/jyxR5aDvj0g?si=NcJEVtmtmsJnIzOl

Valentine is approaching and thought it would be an amazing idea to have a video related to it, and I believe that could help bring traffic as it is related to the season and relatable, cant wait how the final video will look like!!

Some resolution issues I hope to solve with Topaz. Ran out of "fix it" time before the class today. Will look for suggestions from Mark. Comments welcome.