{"id":22783,"date":"2026-05-10T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?p=22783"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:48:03","slug":"away-with-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/10\/away-with-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Away with the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Away with the birds<\/span><\/p>\n

Another New Studio<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘a murder’ 10\/04\/26<\/p><\/div>\n

In April I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get cloud anchors to work in Meadow<\/a> \u00a0and finding a series of issues. Eventually I resorted to using image tracking which I can make work perfectly well. To do what I want with ‘a murder’ is going to take a lot of resolution. I removed the nest from the sculpture and added a series of ‘crosses’ from the earlier bird sculptures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘a murder’ (detail) 10\/04\/26<\/p><\/div>\n

At the moment these are effectively maquettes, I’ll make them more solid at a later stage. The sculpture will be animated in AR by overlaying each ‘cross bird’ with a twin flying in a limited space above it. A flock will rise from the trees and return on a repeating cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n

I put a webpage<\/a> together covering the development of the birds as they’re a significant project now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘starlings’ 10\/04\/26<\/p><\/div>\n

The other piece that I’m spending time on is ‘starlings’, this was ‘the shapes birds make in the air 11’ but has changed as I remembered some textures<\/a> I made six years ago and have been contemplating working towards a book that brings the birds together with the garden in the manner of Elisabeth Bletsoe’s ‘Birds of the Sherborne Missal’<\/a> The pieces will be centred on observations of each mornings visitors in the garden and have drawings, sculptures and AR\/VR works linked from them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘the shapes birds make in the air’ 10\/04\/26<\/p><\/div>\n

I also found myself frustrated by the messing about with AR and animation in blender as well as troubles with my portable hard drives. I decided to revisit the source and started to draw birds again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve continued to draw every day; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The April drawings can be seen here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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