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Gorgeous CGI Paint Swirls in Mesmerizing Animations

Ari Weinkle celebrates artistic mediums in his strange and beautiful 'Paintwaves' animations.
Images courtesy of the artist

Blobs of paint, in rainbow shades, explode out of nothing and twist into beautiful shapes during a series of short animated videos. The 20-second clips are playful and aesthetically pleasing; thick paint oozes or slides smoothly across the screen, sometimes quickly, sometimes so slow it seems to not be moving at all. There are six videos in Paintwaves, and each of them has a different background, different color palette, and a differently shaped paint blob. Ari Weinkle's playful, computer-animated experimentation mixes mediums in a delightful and simple way, bringing to virtual life the beauty and tactility of oil paint.

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No stranger to reimagining the physical through animation, Weinkle is interested in disassembling and re-imagining shapes, especially natural ones. He devoted one series, called Feelers, to re-animating animal appendages. Other works play with classic geometrical shapes, like the series Spirals.

But the theme of reanimating artistic mediums is perhaps Weinkle’s most interesting pursuit. In Tides, the artist depicts typography underwater. Constructing fascinating and strange letters, he then lets the letters dissolve, with certain shapes and patterns mimicking marine life. Playful and mesmerizing, Weinkle’s works are simple and beautiful meditations on artistic mediums. Check out some Paintwaves in action below:

To see more of the series, click here.

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