Horses-Morgan Adamson
This is a simple project with an interactive dimension. Every time you use the mouse to click on a horse, it starts the stop-motion film for twenty seconds. During this time, the image becomes distorted by expanding and compressing its dimensions along the y and then the x axes. When you click on anything white in the image, nothing happens.
Though the video is simple, making it was quite a learning process. I feel like the main thing I got out of working on this project was learning the basic cause-effect logic of MAX: first this, then this, then this--everything needs to happen in a very specific order. I find this aspect of the program both interesting and challenging. I am not really a “computer person,� so I feel like it takes me longer than most people to understand basic things.
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I chose this video in particular because I like the ghost-like quality of the image. Because it is so high-contrast, it was also much easier to work with. I do a lot with stop-motion animation, and I am excited about the possibilities that this program offers for making video art interactive.