Thomas Richner and Aaron Cole on diving into ONE (link)

Haven't share on this blog forEVER.  Had a nice article done by Toonboom animation about our animated film ONE. 

 

My hope is to conitnue this series and keep pushing these faces.  I uploaded them in reverse order, the first image was fairly simple (the man with the glasses and the moustache), but as I went through the designs, I started to push them more and more, finding my groove a bit with the characters.  Series two might have a background color transitioning from yellow to red (each series will be indentifiable in that way- a different set of transitioning background colors).  I'm excited to see how far I can push these designs and where the second series of 100 will take me.  

If you have quesions, please follow me on twitter at either @trichner or @TrichnerNFT and feel free to DM me there.  Thanks for checking these out!! 

 

RADIAL 12 COLLECTION:

A Series of Animated GIFS and the Individual Frames

Motion is at the core of this collection of radial images.    It's imperative to see the motion and how the frames relate to one another.  The animated GIFS are the core NFTs in the series.  There are 49 GIFs in this first batch of Radial 12 art/animation.  The GIFS are organized as follows:

ONE GIF of the entire batch of images which contains all 462 pieces animating together. 400 x 400 pixels in size.

SIX shorter GIFs, one for each round of art which contain 77 images (six rounds of 77 images equals 462 images). 800 x 800 pixels in size. 

And, finally, there are FORTY-TWO partial round GIFS which break the 77 images within each round into 7 sets of 11 images. 1200 x 1200 pixels in size. 

The animated GIFs are on 4's, animator speak for each image within the GIF (film) is held for 4 frames.  Most animation today is done on 2's, or 12 images per second of film.  There are 24 frames per second of film.   The movies also loop- they play forward to the end of the sequence then play in reverse back to the first image and loop endlessly. 

 

The individual frames are 2400 x 2400 pixels.  

One can think of this series as owning an entire animated 'film', and/or sections of an animated film, and having the opportunity to also own the individual 'cels' from that film.   The individual frames are the highest resolution. The motion of each GIF is unique and makes each GIF a unique item.  As a filmmaker and an animator,  I'm intrigued by the notion that combining different images together at varying lengths of time can create unique pieces and distinct experiences. 

I hope you enjoy these pieces and look forward to the series progressing as I work towards what will eventually be a collection that contains 10, 472 images (16 unique collections of radial art). If the entire collection were to be projected at 4's per second, it would combine to make a film with a running time of around 29 minutes. 

EVENTUALLY, if a collector were to own all the BATCH GIFS, this would unlock the entire film and the collector can contact me directly to mint an NFT of the entire collection/ one large GIF.  The details of how and what that would look (i.e. length, size, how long each image is held) can be determined at a later date. (*It's also possible this would be a video instead of a GIF)

 

If you are interested in this series, please follow me on TWITTER:  @TrichnerNFT

 

OPENSEA NFT STOREFRONT

 

https://opensea.io/trichner

This series of art developed out of my love of drawing.  As an animator on The Simpsons, I'm often drawing with a very specific goal in mind.  This series was meant to be freeing and to allow me to just draw- draw whatever I wanted.  I've also been an animator for nearly 30 years now and it only took me a few drawings into this series to realize I would be morphing these images- animating them- from frame to frame.  The organization and thought process behind the series developed farily quickly within the first dozen images or so.  

For the time being, not knowing where these images will end up, I didn't want to include any unlockable content.  HOWEVER, I would VERY much like to make available an NFT film at some point of ALL the frames together.  One of the best ways to view this is in motion.  So, once the series is out as a set of still images, I may come back and mint a movie.  Maybe those with the highest percentage of owned pieces can choose to purchse it.  We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.  

The BEST way to reach me is through Twitter- 

https://twitter.com/TrichnerNFT

Please DM me with any questions about the series.  There are parameters and characteristics of the pieces which make some more rare than others.  In each round of 77 images, ONE piece has a stray element making it asymmetrical.  There will also always be one black and white frame in each collection.  And, there will definitely be error images, ones that don't follow the pattern of motion.  There is one in the first half of Radial Collection 12 (#268).  Hopefully there are not many of these, but if they happen, I will not correct it.  The series is like a snapshot of my consciouness as I was drawing- it was loose, it was fun, it touches on a lot of things I love and has a look to it that might be recognizable.  

Thank you for checking out this series.  Please feel free to reach out with any questions.  I don't currently keep a website, but this blog has some information about my work.  If you'd like to check out my production credits, the link is below for IMDB.  Happy bidding!  

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1519341/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Cardboard Millennium Falcon

https://www.starwars.com/news/fully-operational-fandom-an-incredibly-detailed-cardboard-millennium-falcon

Animation for Gripman Investment Financial

GAVBX Fund Summary from Brian Bookheimer on Vimeo.

Produced by Cap City Studios, LLC in 2016.

Back on The Simpsons

Its been a little over a year now since I've been back on The Simpsons and its been fantastic so far!  I started back as a layout artist and took a test for storyboarding soon after I started.  The first episode I got to board was Werking Mom, XABF21 from last season, which just aired recenty.  It was a THRILL to see shots that I worked on with our TALENTED storyboard team light up on the screen.  Mike Anderson, David Silverman, Matt Schofield along with the other board artists and the amazing layout artists brought the show to life!  There was a wonderful Article in the Dispatch about this epsiode at the link above.  I'm about a aweek away from starting work on my 4th board now and I love the process!  Looking forward to getting to do more in the in the future and continuing to learn and develop in this area!  Below are stills from two of the shots I boarded in the show.