This is an Augmented Reality animation!
The image is made in 3D and it comes to life using the Augmented Reality technique! All you have to do is download the app 'Artivive', once the app is open point your smartphone at the image. Make sure the image falls well within the frames indicated by the app. Almost immediately, the animation is activated! Now you can also move your phone closer or further away. The app will continue to recognise the image! I made this work in the time just after Corona. I was searching, had lost my work as a drummer and didn't want to go back to that. I started learning 3D animation and experimenting with materials. Even in a 3D programme, you can work with materials! I wanted to make an infinite loop, something earthy, natural, but also a bit alienating. I'm sure this object doesn't exist in real life and yet it has something real in it and because of the earthy colours and the quiet movement, it has a calming effect. You can look at it endlessly and it has a stress-relieving effect. Augmented Reality has something magical in my opinion! I desperately needed it at the time to reinvent myself. This work means a lot to me because the creation process helped me a lot!
I am an Augmented Reality artist working under the name Life On Marzj.
I started my career as a professional drummer (I graduated from the Rock Academy in 2003). Besides playing in bands, I also started composing music.
Because of the Corona pandemic, I lost my job as..
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