My Previous Blog on The gardens of The Future is HERE.
The Suno Playlist of the songs for "The Gardens of The Future": SYMBIŌSIS SYMPHYŌN
Some more A.I. Slops for the imagery:
My Original Concept Art:
More A.I. Slops:
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Lively's National Project: The Gardens of The Future 002
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Monday, January 26, 2026
Impetuous: Lively N Ao Xingtao [Colored Concept Art]
Finally finished this. The Winter Storm/Polar Vortex messed me up several times.
I only used Adobe Photoshop for this, but I also used Rebell 5-7 for the Chinese stamp.
It's my O.C.s Lively & 敖兴涛 Áo Xìngtāo, at the Movie Theater, in the side parking lot.
I published it to my DeviantART Gallery: HERE.
There's more details on the "deviation" post on DevArt.
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Lively's National Project: The Gardens of The Future 001
The Suno Songs for "The Gardens of The Future" are found HERE
I used: Photoshop, Krita, and Clip Studio Paint
I posted it to DeviantART HERE.
The old sketch is THIS ONE: (HERE on DeviantART)
I cannot express how absolutely depressed I was, and I used to long for death, most of my life. YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS PAIN. I CAN understand the pain of others tho, BECAUSE OF THIS PAIN, but MY PAIN I would NEVER wish on anyone, NOT EVEN MY WORST ENEMIES, for then I'd pity them and feel sorry for them.
U have NO IDEA JUST HOW MUCH RESEARCH I did in 2012 ALONE, let alone 2010-2011, or 2013-2016, for that matter. I wrote a short stack of "business plans", and amassed stacks of research notes, since 2007. But, my spouse threw it out. PRICELESS WORK! Ill NEVER GET IT BACK!
All I have left are the notebooks I kept, since he left those alone, my sketchbooks... but, my entire bulk stack of the vast majority of my hand made animation sheets are ALL MISSING! THOUSANDS of DOLLARS of WORK. JUST MISSING!
But, I'm considering potentially writing a thesis on this... maybe...
I'd been bringing up topics like "Peak Oil" and Permaculture, OVER & OVER, but my words & my cries go ignored.
THIS is why I started moving forward on this story, yet again, around 2015-17.
So, each time I'd put type out my lyrics, loose concepts, or had discussions with various A.I.s like DeepSeek, Claude, or ChatGPT, but especially DeepSeek, I'd find my story coming to life, and then MOVING. Also, whenever I heard my music played back to me, including the stuff I'd written as a child, a teenager, or a decade ago, I was moved to TEARS!
I have so much baggage over this stuff! You have NO IDEA!
Another things which KEEPS coming up is "KPOP Demon Hunters" which persists in inspiring me, or " Into The Spider-Verse" & "League of Legends" K/DA. I remember when EACH of these things came out, they were so uniquely different and original, and by now everyone is fed up with so much mainstream trite, on repeat. But, those were awesome! Another one was Kerli's "Feral Hearts". Or the Belgian Comic Book series "Djinn" which is unlike anything out there.
The song is Rising Sun Gardens of the Future «Συμβίωσις Συμφύων» [001] Which you can hear HERE.
I'd been working on the concepts of "The Gardens of The Future" in the story, and i was writing the songs about them for a while now. Back in November/December, i tried a few versions and experiments with songs about "THE BIG REVEAL" for this Project, which is Lively's BIG PROJECT. And 1 of the tracks, which is a bilingual Greek/English Track is my MOST POPULAR song on the platform!
I made OTHER versions of this song/track concept, but THIS was the 1 that didn't suck...
So, I'd been toying around with different concepts for this show, presentation, etc.
There's various technology, Permaculture Design, and more involved with this Project.
So, I was reworking, and redesigning the look & feel of this project. the ONE intended to "Save The Planet" in The New Millennium. I wanted to have the Project be SO BEAUTIFUL and SO PERFECT, but without the "eye-sore" push-back often associated with these things as a criticism. I wanted it to be SO GRAND & SO HIGH TECH, and SO STUNNING as to resemble Rivendell & Lothlorian of Peter Jackson's films, whom literally built real locations of various sets. I wanted it to feel SO HIGH TECH that IT LOOKS & FEELS LIKE MAGIC! This is just yet another extension of an entire lifetime of research, and thwarted activism, goals, projects, and broken promises.
As I said, YOU CANNOT KNOW THIS PAIN & ANGUISH.
Some of this includes rough concepts for integrated CLEAN ENERGY such as wind turbines & solar cells.
And, so.... as I was testing out various concepts, including a version in Fairmount Park Philadelphia, which you can see HERE:
I THEN pulled up my old sketch, and wanted to see what the A.I. would come up with. I WAS UTTERLY IN TEARS WHEN I SAW IT!:
It's NOT EXACTLY the exact vision, but THIS IS THE CLOSEST I've EVER GOTTEN TO IT! The Wind turbines are wrong, and this has presented a very difficult thing to solve.
There's are some of the rough concept designs for the Wind Wheel Turbines:
Permaculture & Hügelkultur is NOTHING NEW, but it's always got that slobbish Hippie, New AGer side...
Other things of interest are structures & gardens that STILL EXIST & STILL FUNCTION in Sri Lanka (Sigiriya), Ancient China, and Mesoamerica made from some kind of advance high tech knowlege we've lost.
Everyone OUGHT to be EQUAL, FED, SAFE, LITERATE, EDUCATED, and poverty should NOT EXIST.
I's NOT as tho I never wanted to work with other humans, but you guys are ALL FUCKED UP!
Anyways, I THINK that's ENOUGH for tonight. I've been blogging ALL DAY.
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Lively Exotic Motion Graphics Affects Animation in Adobe After Effects CC 2018
This composition is generally WAY different than my usual stuff. I'm WAY dynamic as an artist, os much drawings are way more animated, in motion, etc. This one is still. It's actually SO rare in my art that I went through my gallery looking for ANYTHING still enough to add effects animation/motion graphics so it wouldn't look like a frozen person, or a sticker on a video.
Adobe After Effects CC 20018
Original Artworks can be found in my gallery HERE on DeviantArt.
At the time when I did this one I was studying dance especially raqs sharqi & tribal fusion (belly dance). I studied every day, because I was suffering from depression, and it made me stop feeling sad or painful. But, I eventually hurt my back.Several of my influences were people like 1 of my teachers, Zoe Jakes, but also other members of the Belly Dance Super Stars & The Indigo like: Rachel Brice, Sharon Kihara, Mardi Love, Kami Liddle, Cherchez La Femme (Sherri), Ansuya, Sadie, Ariellah, Vagabond Princess. There's so many, really! But, also the legendary Mata Hari. Virtually ALL of them drew inspiration from her, and antique silent films, as well as Star Wars, Star Trek, and comic books.
I'd been drawing furries for the longest time, and wanted to get back to human figures, and especially my own original characters BEFORE the internet had influenced me to change. So, I started doing several bellydancer images with my own character, Lively.
Lively is a brunet, ranging from browns to black, but I've had her in various colored hair such as blue, indigo, purple, and green, usually a darker color. Just NEVER BLOND. Her skin tone can also range in many hues from fair-skin which is something I started doing as I got older, but originally she was either tanned, bronzed, or olive skin. So, this is 1 of several of her incarnations.
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| Original Sketch |
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Fallen - Motion Graphics - Effects Animation in Adobe After Effects 2018
The Original Graphic:
I reworked, re-painted, re-colored, and edited this in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 & Adobe After Effects CC 2018 last week.
Some are longer Meditative loops, and it's basically my process as I was tweaking it:
Here's the original version I did several years ago:
You can find this on my DeviantArt Gallery.
I was suffering from very bad depression, AKA Heartbreak, and around 2009 was when I was going through some major changes within myself. That year I'd realized that many persons whom I'd believed were my friends, were not actually friends, but "friends", or fake friends. I'd also been going through some doubts about whatever my beliefs were, or what I'd thought they were. I'd already known that the government and political system was already flawed and broken, and you didn't need to watch X-FILES to know that... but, the new president at the time, whom I was very happy to have elected, had broken several of his promises, but talking about that made you persona non grata. It was also the aftermath of the Bail-Outs and the economic meltdown. I'd wanted to be at CAL-ARTS by that time, but was screwed by the economy.
Since governments, relationships, society, and even history came into question, things like religion, spirituality, and theology also did.... things just weren't adding up.... accountability was an actual thing. And, I became very enamored with Philosophy, ethics, and epistemology.
I remembered sitting at out cart/kiosk in the mall, with my sketchbook, trying in vain to sketch something. ANYTHING! And, NOTHING came out. It was THE MOST depressing thing! To be an artist, and award winning one, and not being able to draw. I cried EVERY DAY and at night. And, the ache was in EVERYTHING. Sometimes, I didn't eat.
I had NOTHING to look forward to, and all ANYONE ever had to say about ANYTHING was: Your daughter -blah-blah-blah... that NEVER cheered me up. It's a VERY sexist assumption, and I don't know whether it's worse from women or from men... but, I got it on all sides.
Then, out of nowhere, I gave up sketching, and just randomly doodled something only to have THIS show up on my paper.
I'd used this artwork for an album cover on 8Tracks.
The Original Sketch:
If you would like to create your own experimental graphic with these, color it in Photoshop, or print out and hand-color whether for fun, practice, or educational purposes you MAY do that, but NOT FOR PROFIT. I did license the sketch versions to the Creative Commons so you could do that.
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| Original Graphic |
I reworked, re-painted, re-colored, and edited this in Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 & Adobe After Effects CC 2018 last week.Some are longer Meditative loops, and it's basically my process as I was tweaking it:
Here's the original version I did several years ago:
I was suffering from very bad depression, AKA Heartbreak, and around 2009 was when I was going through some major changes within myself. That year I'd realized that many persons whom I'd believed were my friends, were not actually friends, but "friends", or fake friends. I'd also been going through some doubts about whatever my beliefs were, or what I'd thought they were. I'd already known that the government and political system was already flawed and broken, and you didn't need to watch X-FILES to know that... but, the new president at the time, whom I was very happy to have elected, had broken several of his promises, but talking about that made you persona non grata. It was also the aftermath of the Bail-Outs and the economic meltdown. I'd wanted to be at CAL-ARTS by that time, but was screwed by the economy.
Since governments, relationships, society, and even history came into question, things like religion, spirituality, and theology also did.... things just weren't adding up.... accountability was an actual thing. And, I became very enamored with Philosophy, ethics, and epistemology.
I remembered sitting at out cart/kiosk in the mall, with my sketchbook, trying in vain to sketch something. ANYTHING! And, NOTHING came out. It was THE MOST depressing thing! To be an artist, and award winning one, and not being able to draw. I cried EVERY DAY and at night. And, the ache was in EVERYTHING. Sometimes, I didn't eat.
I had NOTHING to look forward to, and all ANYONE ever had to say about ANYTHING was: Your daughter -blah-blah-blah... that NEVER cheered me up. It's a VERY sexist assumption, and I don't know whether it's worse from women or from men... but, I got it on all sides.
Then, out of nowhere, I gave up sketching, and just randomly doodled something only to have THIS show up on my paper.
I'd used this artwork for an album cover on 8Tracks.
The Original Sketch:
If you would like to create your own experimental graphic with these, color it in Photoshop, or print out and hand-color whether for fun, practice, or educational purposes you MAY do that, but NOT FOR PROFIT. I did license the sketch versions to the Creative Commons so you could do that.
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Lively Unicorn Morph Animation Adobe After Effects Redux
I've reworked this to be closer to what I was actually, originally going for when I'd first produced it back in 2000-2001 in Adobe After Effects.
The original was hand-drawn by hand, and also the clean-up animation was hand-inked, then manually scanned & cleaned in Photoshop 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 with my old, original, Canon scanner.
Old Version 2001/2005:
Reworked:
With Fog:
DeviantArt GIF
Older Version from Older versions of Adobe After Effects 2000-2005 & 3D Studio Max:
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Friday, December 15, 2017
Spring n Summer Animation Tests: Lively 001
Here were some of the rough animation test I did, trying to learn some animation programs during the summer:
I had also cleaned up some old vintage pencil-test animation. Most of these were created at the U-ARTS Philadelphia from about 1996-1998. and the AIPH one was about 1999-2001(somewhere around there)
You know, it's just REALLY too bad that I couldn't really do what I actually wanted to do, and frequently had to compromise.
My original idea was a more stylized version of or own artistic interpretation for THIS clip form the 1980s:
I can actually DEFINITELY make that happen NOW. And, I probably will. I need to wrap up the "Maple Bacon" animated short I'm doing for my own animated independent film "Ying Qilin" with my daughter first, and I'm also a DP on another live action film "The Holy Maple Tree" in Brockton.
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Inktober: Djehkäujaa Doodles at UMASS Boston
I barely had any free time at all, and i was frequently stressed out. She ended up being doodled on virtually all of my notes, and my homework.
I was almost i pain at ties because the muses were just poking at me, and I couldn't sit still. I was obsessing about it for days, and all throughout the day, and evening back in October and November. the sketches aren't that great, but at times it was like I was really reaching it, and HER. THERE SHE IS. But, I couldn't quite catch it, or reach her. I also wanted to give her eyelashes a remake, and make them thinker and bolder. I was also frequently rethinking how I wanted her hair to be. Much like Lively she has a lot of freedom in her hair design and can be full, flat, wavy and part anywhere.
I was trying to get in touch with one of my idols. (I'm sure you might know who), but also my old teacher from AIPH. Ths also fueled my sketching fever back I Sept-October.
I was trying to get an Open Life Drawing "Club" started, which I might actually still do, sponsored and registered to the University. But, I suffered from burn-out so badly while also trying to manage 4 full academic classes, AND a work study job in biology, PLUS commuting. It was KILLING ME. So, I had to let it go in October.
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
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