A long day yesterday of working on a full set of Spotify Canvases for The Myth of Sisyphus. I like these little animations and they are easy to make in Argus. All use 240 frames at 30 frames per second, so an 8-second loop, which is the maximum Spotify permits. I based these on the CD version album artwork.
I remade the one for I, Sisyphus, using a black disc which rotated in opposite directions to the skull:
I used the same animation for The Problem of Suicide, but added a larger rotary wobble to the camera, making the Sisyphus character turn in jerking motions as though heaving the rock.
Life in the Mirror and The Spare Bedroom of Reminiscence used the album artwork drawings, sliding, fading and flickering. For Nick Drake, I changed the background from light to dark to emulate the look of the album art.
The Exploratory Farmer used the dark look of the album's rear artwork:
So it continued. All work was done by 18:00. I discovered a bug in Argus, the current modulator count could be -1, when there are no modulators, but this was not updated when one was loaded as part of loading an actor. I will investigate today, as it would be better for it never to be -1 anyway.
It was the first day of the Galleria Balmain pop-up shop too, so a historic day, the opening of my third showing of art in London, and this time by a third party. An email informed me that The Grosvenor Open Exhibition is running soon too. Without Peter Boughton the results will certainly be different.
