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Mister Whistle Walk

Trying to make a 2D animated cartoon for pre-school age kids, using characters to introduce music & musical instruments.

Using ChatGPT to generate (i.e. iterate over and over) the characters and related poses. Claude wasn't able to generate images.

Using Minimax h3 to create the walk cycles. I tried Runway, Unscreen, Openart, Veo, and Minimax h3 to generate a walk cycle. Minimax h3 did it the best after revising the prompt a few times, whereas the others were slower to adapt to really any prompt changes (and would keep losing context.) I'm going to try out ToonBoom eventually.

Also, I'm investigating how to make a mouth movements generator akin to Magpie Pro -- I used that software quite a bit on slot game animated characters in the mid-2000s.

SLOTS & Ladders

An experiment in trying to create a mobile slot game with ChatGpt(3-4), using Snakes & Ladders as the game mechanic with common slot bonuses
C# Scripts in Unity (via ChatGpt)
Re-purposed Unity store GUI elements in Photoshop
Music/Sound editing in Logic/Pro Tools
In-game music and sfx
Wrote script, hired VO, and edited in game VO
Hired an illustrator for main character art
Implemented all music, VO, and Sfx in Wwise; integrated Wwise into Unity
Used ChatGPT to create math, slot gameplay, payouts amounts, etc.
Created Python scripts (in PyCharm) to generate paths and payout symbol placement for gameplay
Made for iOS & Android

SMASH RACERS

My brother and I made Smash Racers!

It's just the two of us, so we split everything up. Deepak did all the programming in Unity, and most of the Blender work needed (neither of us are 3D artists, so we used assets from the Unity store and deleted a gazillion vertices :)

I did the music (Disco, 80s Synth-Rock, Orchestral, Bluegrass), sound design, voice over + editing/processing in Logic/Pro Tools, Wwise implementation, editing 3D car/rim/wheel models in Blender, and GUI graphics in Photoshop.

Logic, Pro Tools, Wwise, Unity, Photoshop, Blender -- gotta love the tools we all have available these days :)

GUITAR SHREDDER

An experiment in trying to create an endless runner game with ChatGpt(3-4)
Created in Unity/Wwise/Photoshop/Logic
C# Scripts in Unity (via ChatGpt)
Re-purposed Unity store GUI elements in Photoshop
Music/Sound editing in Logic/Pro Tools
In-game music and sfx
Implemented all audio in Wwise; integrated Wwise into Unity
Added usernames stored in Google/Firebase
Made for iOS & Android

Toots & BungO

During the Covid Halloween time, I felt bad for the trick or treating kids :)

(There's about 8 of them in this playist)

Ice Skaters

Needed to recreate & replace (for skating chroeography reasons) an orchestral waltz section (3:15-3:24) for Alex & Maia Shibutani's 2015-2016 Short Dance music.

Asturias/Paso Doble for their 2014 Free Skate music.

Did some small arrangement music edits to "Fix You" (Coldplay) for 2015/2016 season (edited from stems.)

Music Notation/Engraving

A former music theory professor needed some notation illustrations for a book he's publishing.

I started with Finale for the basic notation symbols/graphics, exported TIF files, then finished them up in Photoshop.

There were about 30 illustrations in all - here are a few examples (blurry due to size reduction):

CD Booklet Layouts

CD booklet layouts for my friend David Jennings. He gives me photos and text to use.

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