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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

6 months

A quick behind-the-scenes on how this loop works and how I put it together 🦩

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very fancy zoetrope🐧

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One of the most complex loops I ever made 🦩🦩🦩

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exploring abandoned basements

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Feast your eyes on this luxurious zoetrope

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#ashtwo 🐧

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Meaning

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stable diffusion + control net animation test

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'Fibonacci'

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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3 years

So @ZARA reached out to me and said "make whatever you want in your style" 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

just some photos from my nightly forest walks

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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7 months

Wow Sora is so amazing, I wanted to really push it to the limits and see how it would handle a very complex prompt: “A 45-45-90 right triangle divides in half within itself repeatedly to create an organized fractal structure with self similarity, increasing in size from small at

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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Modern Still Life

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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1 year

Running from infinity

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

I've been seeing some new artists in the space express frustration about not yet finding financial success as a crypto artist, and wanted to give some insight into what I think could make you more likely to succeed here.

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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4 years

It's official - I'm taking a leave of absence from my job to focus on crypto art full-time. Friday is my last day. Thank you for making this possible. I still can't believe it 🙏 So many cool projects/collabs are already in the works and I can't wait to show you !! 🦩🐧

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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1 year

'The More The Merrier'

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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3 years

my brain when im trying to fall asleep

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

When it all lines up

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

so here's how to loop a 3d flamingo fractal 📐🦩

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

🐧 3,125 animated penguin squads 🐧 Designed to fit your Twitter banner 🐧 Collectors of my work get 1 free squad and get to mint 24 hours early 🐧 Thoughtfully designed BGs and environmental elements 🐧 Possibility of getting bees

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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2 years

I'm so proud of this piece; it was a real step outside my comfort zone. My goal was to use my visual language to share a relatable experience, instead of relying on complexity to impress (which I often do). Thank you for the wonderful response, there will be more like this🐧

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

so here's how this loop works 🐧💙🦩

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

"Leap of Faith" My first project since leaving my job to pursue crypto art full-time. Was a ton of fun to collaborate with @jn3008 on this one. Available now on @SuperRare

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

Too Much Information

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

Something I love exploring in my work is the idea of taking CG animation and representing it through old-school, real-world animation techniques... but then making it so elaborate that it could only be done digitally. 'Zoetrope 120' is a great example of this 🦩

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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1 year

bye bye blue bird

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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10 months

Asymptotes by @emty_01

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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2 years

this is fine

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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2 years

Summer is here 🐧

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2 years

Fibonacci

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

so here's how to make an infinite scale loop 🐧🏮

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

Power

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

'Twenty Straight Lines'

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

“Collector’s Zoetrope” Edition of 25 $1 drawing Open only to collectors of my previous Nifty Gateway drops Drawing opens December 1st at 6:30pm EST on @niftygateway

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

My brain when I'm trying to fall asleep

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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3 years

Me and the squad throwing one last pool party before summer's over

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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1 year

The More The Merrier

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

Freebird ♾

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

Fibonacci is SOLD!! Thank you to all the bidders and congrats to the winner! and congrats to everyone else in the auction!!

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

✖️ #ashtwo 🐧 March 28

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

Sending this email changed my life forever. They wrote back to me and I ended up making a bunch of concert visuals for Yung Bae starring the first-ever dancing flamingos. One of the most influential moments in the development of my style.🦩

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

Is it summer yet

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

6 months

Start with a square, double the area each time

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

Five Penguins is a collectible concert visualizer that anyone can use for free. How to use Five Penguins at your next party or concert: 1. Go to 2. Tap the spacebar to match the beat of your music 3. Project on a wall and enjoy

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

I make penguins walk forever #PortfolioDay

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

"Winter" Collab with @jn3008

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

tbt that time Zara hired me to "make whatever I want"

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

Summer cube

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

9 days until my drop on @niftygateway . It's called "Something for Everyone" because I'm giving away the project file for free. Evolve the work however you'd like. Also, it's all silent actions (sorry, bots) No minimum bids No estimated prices

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

5 months

theyre gathering 🐧

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

5 months

the search for meaning

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

"Running From Infinity" Fearing the worst, a penguin runs from the ever-growing possibility that things could go wrong. ✖️ #ashtwo starts tomorrow 🐧

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

'Twenty Straight Lines'

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

8 months

Hexagon stairs

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

"I'd Go Anywhere With You", my collaboration with @heyaudreyheyyy , is now available on @SuperRare : The collector will also receive her original painting (54" x 24", acrylic on canvas).

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

It's my last day at the office, which makes this is my last release as a part-time crypto artist :) It's been a few months since I minted something on @SuperRare so I am THRILLED to present to you: "Silver Spiral"

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

10 months

Triangle Disintegration

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

One of my most fun collabs ever. The style transfer work was done by Jeremy who goes by Moonscooter on reddit. Music by @cYsmix

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

I’ve been gradually compiling a list of artists who I think are extremely underrated in the space, and with 1/1 art starting to pick up I feel like now is the perfect time to highlight them! My main criteria are: · Identifiable style · Unique artistic voice · Technical mastery

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

wow the new Club Penguin looks pretty intense tbh

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

Timing is everything 🐧🐧🐧🐧

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

The most successful artists here are those who have woven themselves into the community and made new work that adds to the conversation. Art is a very social thing. You will end up disappointed if your main goal here is to cash in on your old work.

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

Huge outdoor zoetrope, the animation can only be seen with a drone 🦩

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

Spend less time convincing people to buy your NFTs, and put more emphasis on developing your craft and your artistic voice. Maybe you’ve already been doing this for years, but keep going - this is a new community who just met you. Show them what makes your voice special.

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

still trying to figure out what to say. I'm totally at a loss for words. Thank you so, so much. this is life-changing

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

🐧I make penguins walk forever #PortfolioDay

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

10 months

Cube Chase by @Pettersson0scar

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

sketch final

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

Just keep doin your thing

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

A little bit of BTS for how I made this animation by using tradition digital animation techniques in combination with AI tools ⬇️

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

Oh it's #PortfolioDay ! My name's Gavin and I'm trying to make you smile by showing you the silliness of birds, but in the most complicated ways possible

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

“Zoetrope 120” October 2020, SuperRare This large-scale installation (inspired by sculpture parks like Storm King), combined with precise drone piloting, makes for probably the most elaborate way to view this simple dancing flamingo animation. 120 statues, 120 feet in diameter.

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

It's finally happening 🦩🌴

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

hold your phone far away

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

5 months

oh god i can't believe they got this on video

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

When it all lines up

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

@_holonick_ I'm so glad you asked

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

“Fibonacci Zoetrope” October 2020, Nifty Gateway One of my first zoetrope explorations, this one is based on animation techniques developed by John Edmark. It utilizes the Golden Angle, a number found throughout nature (like in the growth pattern of sunflower seeds).

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

I can’t promise you will find financial success here. But I think you have a better shot at it if you don’t make money your primary goal. Make art because you love doing it. Show us something we’ve never seen. And keep getting better at it :)

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

Seagull killin it on the dance floor

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

very shiny zoetrope 🐧

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

I finally set up an @oncyber_io gallery to display some of my favorite NFTs I've collected. Take a look! 🐧🐧 Featured artists credited below⬇️

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

another animation test

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

"Finding Joy Along The Way" Curious and enthusiastic, a flamingo ignores what he cannot control and instead finds wonder in the world around him. ✖️ #ashtwo starts today at 12:30pm EST 🦩

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

'Here comes the squad' is now available on @SuperRare . It's the first introduction to my new penguins and it will definitely not be the last time you see these guys ;)

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

"Leap of Faith" infinite loop by me and @jn3008

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

Pixel:8 Studio made this stunning loop based on one of my tutorials and lately it has been making the rounds on Instagram: It's so rewarding (and surreal) to put an idea out into the world and then see people evolve it in ways you never thought possible.

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

2 years

Step brothers

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

Fibonacci (collab with @arbenl1berateme )

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

Finally some nice weather 🏝️

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

My last 2 releases caused ⅓ of a tonne of CO2 emissions so I'm using the earnings to offset over 100x that amount through various clean energy projects. I'm doing this publicly with the hopes that it will inspire others to make a positive impact if they have the means to do so.

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

Sohcahtoa

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

This is so far above and beyond anything I ever expected. I thought "making it as an artist" meant you got to work for the cool motion design studios. And now my reality is turned upside down. I am totally floored. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 🦩

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

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4 years

The value of an artwork isnt measured by “is it pretty” or “how hard was it to make”. The most valuable art here says something memorable within the context of ALL of the art and history of the space. How can you stand out? What can you say that’s new? How can you inspire others?

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

1 year

'Twenty Straight Lines'

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

And I'll never forget how stunned I was to see @muratpak adapt it as well !

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"Microplanet Generator" based on the golden triangle loop by @shapiro500

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

3 years

"Lazy River" One of the two open editions from my collab drop with @yungbae on @niftygateway this Saturday, April 24th 🦩🌴 Can't wait to show you the rest of the collection :)

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Gavin Shapiro 🐧

@shapiro500

4 years

One of the first flamingo loops I ever made 🦩 🦩 🦩 I made some of these in 2019 for Yung Bae to use on tour Music - @yungbae

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