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This particular video was using footage of the results from a 6 hour crash course with students who had no programming experience. They began with the source code for a simple breakout clone provided by Thirion, and ended up with this beautiful montage. The wonderful thing about the computational, the generative, the procedural, is that things emerge that often cannot be accurately predicted by the person responsible for the underlying logic.

“Orlando is my context,” he says. “But it’s all subconscious. With the cardboard art festival, for instance. Just seeing what we did this year compared to the direction it’s taking as we plan for next year is very cool. And that progress happens just from opening it up to more and more people and their submissions. I didn’t seek to make those changes, they happened naturally. Same thing with the SIT project. Someone just donated a bunch of beach chairs, how Florida is that?” He is referring to his best known and longest running endeavor, the SIT project.

Simon, whose role on the Toon Boom team was to ensure the product worked well for artists.

it’s his first Emmy. But as for when we might drop by his animation studio to check out the statuette? “I don’t actually get one,” Simon said with a laugh. “But I did get a picture of it.”

Simon, whose role on the Toon Boom team was to ensure the product worked well for artists.

it’s his first Emmy. But as for when we might drop by his animation studio to check out the statuette? “I don’t actually get one,” Simon said with a laugh. “But I did get a picture of it.”