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My entry for Sparkbirds' art/video contest! I think I might edit a few more things so this isn't my final submission, but I hope you like it.
I went through quite a journey editing this, so if you want to hear my tales of woe, click below
I had to use three different editing programs cuse one I downloaded just for this and did all of the layering and stuff, but as I went to export it apparently like all of the assets I used were premium despite not having any indicators whatsoever, and I didn't feel like doing the entire thing all over again, so what I decided to do was to screen recorded the playback viewfinder in the editing UI, and then dump that into a different editing program to crop and trim it. The audio got messed up but considering I had an mp3 file of it I just added that into the other editing program as well. That's not even including that artwork which had me doing multiple thumbnails, renders for the bird, trying to figure out anatomy, and a fully rendered piece with everything in separate layers. And I also did value thumbnails for some reason?? It worked out well but idk why I did it I've never done that before. I rarely thumbnail as it is. I'm writing this at 2 am, BTW, and I think I started it around like 8?
Also just a little detail that I like that no one will notice is that all of the colors are color-picked from the Atlantisia and Mayday cover art. There is some messing with values, layer modes, gradient maps, and stuff, but all of the base colors came from the albums. I'm just info-dumping at this point. I'm tired.