The Final Creations Are Pouring Out Of Me.

Inspiration.

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941)

Ponte Campovasto, 1914

Oil on canvas

50.5 x 84 cm

Private collection

Inspiration.

川瀬巴水　鎌倉八幡宮

Inspiration.

Johann Gustav Lange (German, 1811 - 1887)

"Full Moon over Winter Lanscape", n.d.

Oil on Canvas, 65.7 × 93.7 cm.

Inspiration.

We’re getting closer to release day. I’m so busy creating this graphic novel I can forget to post here. Please forgive me. Can’t wait to share the full thing with you all.

So, for some months now I've been keeping my work under wraps while I’ve been minting NFTs or Nifties, as I prefer to call them. Thanks to the NFT explosion I've been called to explore some exciting new mediums.

If you don't know what a Nifty is, don't worry I'll post a full explanation of this concept later. Let's just say for now that they fit perfectly with the story of Veil of the Gods.

My latest obsession ties in beautifully with NFTs. It is Mocap, or motion capture technology. It's quite a simple process really if you have an iPhone with a true depth camera. Android and the others just can't do this sort of work.

First, I sculpt a character in a 3D modelling programme. Then I take a reference video of my own face as I speak the character's lines. I drop the animation files over the top of the 3D sculpture, render frame by frame, then tidy up the files in photoshop.

After that my partner adds the vocals we've recorded via Final Cut Pro, while I start preparing the next animation. I suppose the tricky bit is digital sculpting, lighting and camera work within the 3D environment. That's taken me years to learn.

Anyway, here's one of the sketches for a character. Stay tuned. He'll be speaking in the next few days. And you might be surprised at how life-like he looks when animated.

Oh, and he’s available now as a rare NFT collectible on Hic Et Nunc https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/568738

Whipjack Thraw the Cacodaemon.

*sound on

Countless ages ago a disgruntled Cacodaemon retreated from the world to seek refuge deep in his underground lair. And there he would have remained, at peace, far from the squabbling masses of humans who had crowded him out, but for the appearance of a certain Mahjee who was looking to make a name for himself.

This Mahjee worked a Mahjuti Meta-Glyph on Whipjack that bound him within a space-time bubble. In other words, he doomed the Daemon to repeat the same 30 seconds or so of his life over and over, endlessly into eternity. Without respite.

The trap took Whipjack completely by surprise. He’d just finished a poetic warning to the Mahjee that Cacodaemons are immortal and that no Mahjuti tricks could harm him, when a series of glowing Glyphs appeared before his eyes. The ancient daemon, who long ago had proved he was invincible, found himself cocooned in a veil of shimmering sky-blue light. And that was that. He was trapped.

Ziggetai is a collective of artists established in 2022 by the late author Caiseal Mor, who passed away today after a short but intense encounter with cancer.