Every three or four years, over the past, er, 50 years or so, I suddenly get the idea that it would be fun to make some t-shirts expressing the cultural icons of interest to me. In the mid seventies I painted Rod Carew on a t-shirt in acrylics, but the image tragically melted in the dryer. In 1981 I drew up, with fabric markers, a Grateful Dead shirt which I sold at a Grateful Dead concert for, holy mother of god, $10, an outrageous sum of money that was not a harbinger of my future in the arts, or maybe was, seeing as it was just one shirt. Twenty years ago I handmade shirts for myself to wear celebrating the work of authors Daniel Pinkwater, Janet Evanovich, and Jasper Fforde. I later met Jasper Fforde and he hand-signed my shirt and took a picture of it! This too was and wasn't a harbinger of things to come. For instance, the Newberry winning author of The One and Only Ivan came to my library this past year and liked one of my pictures so much I had to sign it for her!
I don't know what any of this means, except, I like to make t-shirts. And so with the best new ai photo generator there is, I thought I'd take a stab at some new t-shirt designs that until recently have been a bit beyond me and my technology. Since I am rereading one of my favorite trilogies ever, The Scholomance Trilogy, by Naomi Novak, I though it might be nice to make a kind of Scholomance School logo.
Boy oh boy did it come out well.
Or I should say, five or ten designs out of a hundred came out really well! I'll probably make one into a t-shirt pretty soon. And I might make many other designs of other books as well. It is fun and rewarding!
I might even get ten dollars somewhere from it.
But mostly, as you know, what I've been working on is my short ai movies. These have an even lower rate of things turning out well, but I find that process irresistible to tinker with, perhaps because the pay off is even greater.
So I decided to see how it might animate my Scholomance logo.
Oh lord.
And if you think this is good, you should read the books. They were 100% written by a human!
Anyway, here's the design. Click, as ever, to animate (though I now have a longer version (twenty whole seconds!) linked, so the "come alive" thing will be not exact.
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