missed opportunity

Amanda Riddell
May 4, 2023
1 min read

It was pretty epic when I shaved my beard today. I reckon it'd make a good video. I have a smartphone now, so I can make videos, but until I have a computer to cartoonify the footage, it's not really worth it. I'm not a drag queen, and the whole Instagram filters thing isn't me. I devised my style, and while I can roto the frames without a processor, it takes forever to make the AI animations. The 30-second video was 4 days of my life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcepK8ZYKE&ab_channel=RiddellProductions

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