The stream only gathers a crowd when it falls...
April 19th I may have found a way to cancel an Adobe account without paying the sometimes hundreds of dollars in fees (For an application whose tools were completed in the 1980’s) Anyway, to cancel without paying I changed my subscription to a lower tier subscription and that new subscription has a 14 day trial period, so I canceled the next day for a full refund and no cancellation fee!
11th, built an app to watch archived movies. Got my Adobe monthly invoice, going to try to complete enough tools so that I can be completely independent from a subscription while offering all of these basic standard tools and functions for free to everyone else.
1oth. Well, what a week it has been. Took vacation days M-Th to work on this site. Refined a lot of web-based programs and made it the Homepage. Getting better each time. The Castles & Caves games is my favorite and still in it’s early stages. Built in small parts (brick-by-brick). I work this evening and then have the weekend to program.
3rd several new programs and games on the Software page. Some features I could not get in Canva (stoke color and thickness) I was able to achieve in these simple utilities. The goal being to upgrade and customize enough webtools that I would no longer have to pay monthly software subscriptions, like Adobe.
The fact that I can now draw and export my own animated .gif files on my website WITHOUT a 3rd party to me is insane! Maybe it’s because of all software corporations trying to profit immensely even though it is a virtual copy of a copy of a copy of data. Some profit, for the development is justified but you know what Microsofts do. I heard the creators of spreadsheet were hippies and they just gave it to the world for free, people were like that once.
March 31st Adding more interactive elements and (potentially) virtual assistants to the VR gallery that can build/script.
30. Here are three oil paintings I have been working on. I feel like the larger (top) could be done, I have overworked things in the past…
29 Working on the three black and white abstracts, one very large. Will post an update this evening. I have about 20 drawings to add to the $5 page and I am working the 3D page on this site and adding elements from that to the VR gallery. *fell asleep, will post today (mon)
23 Forgot how much I actually love making things in 3D. Blender is free and very capable. When I first got into it 3D Studio Max was $3,000 and Maya was 6-9k. I literally paid $300 for a 10 VHS tape series on how to use 3D Studio Max to watch on tv until I could find someone with a hacked version that didn’t require a dongle (a physical device that came with your 3D Max Software). A friend of a friend that worked at Best Buy had a hacked version and we got the CD-ROMS from him, I paid $60 and we almost left before the guys co-worker stopped us and gave him shit about giving out his hacked version. I got home, installed it and it worked! Yeah, so Blender wow. NEW 3D page;
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21 Working the AI models through blender to the VR Gallery as a necessary filter. I did remember how much I loved Blender (3D max before that) but always got frustrated. I can do most modeling in it and have been for the past couple of days. Below is a model from an AI text to 3d (meshy) then imported and lighted in Blender;
20 Creating 3d assets in AI and importing into Blender. May do more of this over the weekend and see what I can add or build upon for the VR gallery.
13 Pausing the painting and everything else to try this; 2026 envelope art fundraiser $5ea! I will add numbered originals over the weekend and will hopefully raise a bit of funds and get more practice in this style. This project feels natural and affordable with low number originals. A good start to get back on track.
12 This is what I was talking about (not complete), it’s abstract but tapestry that it is purposefully formed/evolved. I can make ∞ of these, they come easy and flow in any size. They are new shapes and forms. It is in a universal language, a representation of the undefined flow of the creative universe. Evolved after years of sketching. 3 canvases total, working on more than one gives me something to do while other dry.
10 Looking through everything I have done and focusing one what, if anything, I can contribute to the art world. Something old, unique and flowing. My abstract drawings over the years have come to form unique forms but consistent in style . The new large abstract I am working on is showing this well. I will post it and two more I have planned soon.
9 I asked ai (anonymously) to analyze all of my work . It said that Incoprea was a niche artist, not likely to find commercial success. It went on to say incoprea is a ‘world builder’ maybe its because of my vr work or hopefully that my wider body of work represents a surreal alternate reality. Asking it to clarify might eliminate the later potential… maybe take more time for myself, maybe paint.
I spent what I had to make the last batch of AI videos and was able to go though most of the publicly available tools, new workflow below. Accounts are paused for now. Keeping VR gallery up.
8 new paintings (wip) *not completed
AI VIDEO WORKFLOW: Instead of pre edited work, you can curate images then animate them in your own way. Rendering images gives you total control through Leo (unlimited option is not bad) lower tier (banana is affordable). Rendering video in Hailuo 2.3, if money is no limit then Kling or Seedance (Veo is too formatted and similar in style to be original IMHO) *great for commercial uses tho.
Not a great enough difference in quality to pay the premiums for top of the line right now, but I will throw in a few higher end renders to try it out, i.e. the car scenes (0:57) in this; *new kilng 3.0
*To make the appearance of movement over many scenes. When importing clips, trim the front and back (the front seems to hang a noticeable amount, that can disrupt flow) The back part is generally more distorted. (Of course, use all the clip if it fits well)
I have also switched from my older video editor to capcut, neat transitions, good rendering.
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half that price. Unsure what to do, a luxury rn.