I will be continuing to create anthropomorphic squirrel videos. I have spent the past few weeks shooting, working with Topaz video enhance AI, learning color correction and grading and trying to get DAIN to work. I think the most recent shots have lost the elements of uncanny that some of the earlier shots had and have been leaning too far into constructed sets that teeter into the “cute” category. Going forward I’m focusing on finding the balance between the uncanny, whimsical, and children’s book tone.
Side projects – I have a large amount of footage that my great grandma filmed, mundane and exciting shots from her day to day. Starting off i’m working with the footage with video enhancement to see what that changes, how it affects the image. I do not have a specific goal in mind, but am treating this as a beginning for a project archive of family, place, and time.
One key elements for my projects is getting the DAIN program to function. I have had a lot of difficulty with this, but am continuing to troubleshoot.