Visual Art

I make videos in blender and after effects on my pc

Im learning to use fragment shaders to create art through code

Previous Work

Majesty

A wild trip of a video that took me nearly a year to create, featuring False Noise's "Majesty". Post release was made official by the people at Upscale Recordings

Making of the video

Cochineal

Video I was comissioned to create for $quib, a live action walk through the quiet streets and vacant buildings of Rochester.

Light Gutter

Made as a highschool class project, a fan made video for Iglooghost's "Light Gutter" that follows in the story that Iglooghost had created for his album Lei Line Eon

Show Me What

A fun little fan made lyric video for A.G.Cooks "Show Me What" that I made in the middle of my covid era online classes

Shrine Hacker

My first music video, an odyssey of the little characters of Iglooghost's Clear Tamei/Steel Mogu eps.

Can't Feel Myself

My first video comission, made for Alex Heldt.

back

Making Majesty MV

this project was pretty poorly planned and organized
I took it section by section.
early sections I couldn't do anything to crazy with the main character because I was just starting to learn character animation
pretty much all character animation I've ever done has taken place within the majesty music video
This meant that i couldnt really do anything interesting character/plot wise during the beginning sections of the video

Rendering & effects

so the video is based around a pixel art plugin
this video talks about it
i made some adjustments to the plugin in that video, mainly to remove the freestyle rending it does for outlines as this was pretty inneficcient, and I was using the depth difference tehcnique that he outlined in the video to get object borders anywas
if you wanted to do similar shit in blender I honestly dont reccomend that plugin anymore. Theres plenty of other dithering/color quantizaion plugins that exist
here are, 2 examples
i also often use a plugin in After Effects called Glitchify, and one called Pixsort. they do all the glitchy smear shit that happens int he video

environments

i got really lazy with these closer to the end of the video
but yeah idk. not much to say about these they are pretty basic environments.
i liked using arrays and shit to give repetitive seemingly infinite spaces. i honestly didnt do this as much as I would have liked

shading/textures

got really into blender shader nodes and shit. love them now
still have lots to learn, and still have to learn geometry nodes n shit
most of everything is based on procedural noise textures and a few rock textures that i found
some stuff doesnt have any texture really, its just colored based on the light and assigned colors from a color ramp

other stuff

according to procrastitracker (which was off for about 2 weeks that i was working on the video)
i spent ~122 hours working on the video
96 in blender
22 in after effects
4 in photoshop
This is like. way lower than i thought it would be considering i felt like i was working on it a ton between september-march
this would only put me at less than 5 hours of work a week which is really slow & lazy.
I really need to work more than this on my next project

Music

I love music and I make my own aswell

I have a soundcloud where I post my stuff

I mostly listen to electronic stuff right now. Need to branch out more. Feel free to reccommend me anything, discord works best @nullivory

Links

• Discord: @nullivory
• Soundcloud
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• Last.fm