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| Art videos I began making videos in 2015 using Windows Movie Maker once I got used to that I tried all the free ones and others that offered a free trial but they were not what I wanted. Eventually I found and bought Cyberlink Power Director Ultra 14, I could use this one fairly easily and gradually found out that anything I wanted to achieve there would be a way to do it. The first video that I was happy about was screened at a gallery in Sheffield. Fortunately it was opposite the University, I was concerned that my video wasn't one being made from still images. The students and tutors who came across to have a look assured me that it was indeed a video. After that I took up submitting to art calls from all over the planet and had 22 screenings in various parts of the world. Now my videos are mostly figurative and I use a DAZ3D G3F figure created by Adam Thwaites in Scarborough she is called Cora Thwaites. The DAZ3D software is free and the figures can be altered right down to their individual finger joints. Why did I do this? Because Ballet dancers who do pose for photographs ask for fees way above my pay grade. Posing Cora in the DAZ software I can create a pose to suit an image, incuding the shadows, sightlines and finger positions. Cora although an amateur can make good attempts at most Ballet poses. I begin each pose from the default A pose and start with Cora's feet as I would with a live model. I make the videos from photographs using Cyberlink Power Director 21 which is the last and best of the older versions. I make my own transitions which is not possible in the newer versions. Cyberlink had begun selling 21 again and I was able to take advantage of that. |