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Happy Holidays with Video Artwork

This week, I have a video artwork for you. Here’s how the background story goes:

Far away in an unknown land there is a crazy chapel. Your imagination is this chapel. When you’re there long enough, you can see anything, and experience anything, and some of it leaves a mark on your heart and thus on your art.

A screenshot of the video artwork called Crazy Chapel. Animation art composed and programmed by Paivi Eerola.

Art is born when you deviate from the paths and go alone to scary places. When you say: “That bench is just an inanimate object,” but still see it breathing. When you say: “These ornaments are just decorations,” but still see them dancing. Then time goes in a direction you don’t recognize, and you can’t control everything that starts spinning in your mind. This wild and crazy imagination is the source of both creative and spiritual life.

Crazy Chapel – Watch the Video Artwork!

Crazy Chapel, programmed animation with music, 2024. Click the last icon on the right to watch full-screen!

I made this video artwork “Crazy Chapel” digitally step by step. The music was improvised on the iPad. The shapes were drawn in the Blender 3D modeling program. The movement and the generation of the shapes were programmed in C# programming language. The code and the shapes were put together in the Unity game engine. The introductory texts and the recorded scene were combined in the Da Vinci Resolve video editing program. This year was special to me, because I not only drew and painted, but also created animated art. (See more of how I make these animations: From Painting to Digital 3D – Video 1, Video 2)

Happy Holidays!

With the video artwork “Crazy Chapel”, I want to wish you happy and relaxing holidays. There are many ways to create, let’s celebrate it during these holidays!

Päivi and her handmade Christmas cards.

P.S. This blog will be on a break for a week, but will be back after New Year.

P.P.S. I have often publiched a video greeting near Christmas. For example, check the video “Dreaming and Painting at Christmas” from 2015!

12 thoughts on “Happy Holidays with Video Artwork

  1. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Paivi. Thank you for sharing your passion for art with us.

    Joyce-Chicago, Illinois, USA

  2. Happy red and green and gold and silver time!!
    Also, Happy Holidays! Thanks Paivi I appreciate you.

  3. Following you and watching the expansion of you work has been a real pleasure.
    Thanks for sharing yourself in so many ways.
    The very best to you in your exploration in the new year.

  4. Happy Holidays to you and your family, Paivi!
    This piece of video artwork is fascinating! Those are my favorite colors, and I love your shapes and the sense of depth you convey.
    All the best for a wonderful, art-filled 2025!

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