{"id":17533,"date":"2023-11-23T02:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=17533"},"modified":"2023-11-23T02:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:07:01","slug":"riverboat-orchestra-over-the-garden-wall-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=17533","title":{"rendered":"Art From Code: Riverboat Orchestra | Over the Garden Wall Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DESCRIBE THE PROJECT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project is a coded animation based on a scene from the short television miniseries, Over the Garden Wall, and depicts two frogs in dapper red suits playing upright bass and accordion respectively. I used the software Processing to create both the art and motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DESCRIBE YOUR MOTIVATION IN CREATING THIS PROJECT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first watched Over the Garden Wall only just recently, but its fun and cartoonish art style and whimsical atmosphere made me feel like a kid again, so I wanted to mimic that feeling in my code. I was also drawn to the character design and wanted to see if I could recreate their shapes, pushing myself beyond the circles and rectangles I was comfortable with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DESCRIBE YOUR PROCESS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the requirements for this project was to make use of arrays, and I thought it would be neat to try to apply them to music notes. Since I had recently watched Over the Garden Wall and there is a scene in it in which an ensemble of frogs plays instruments, I decided to attempt to recreate that. The background was fairly straightforward, but it became very difficult once I started trying to create the frogs themselves. In the end, I ended up using vectors and bezier curves to get the shapes I wanted, but it was extremely time consuming to plot every point and curve and took a lot of math, as well as trial and error. Getting them to move proved much easier than expected, as it also mostly came down to having the right math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT DOES THE PROJECT MEAN TO YOU?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working on this project felt almost like a way of escaping from the world. The whole show is centered around this strange and whimsical world that the main characters find themselves in, and so I really enjoyed the process of working on the project. Now that it’s finished, I feel proud of my ability to not only code proficiently, but create something that brings me so much joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below: A screenshot of my project<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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