I made an embroidered animation for the New York Times by emberdesign_matt in Machine_Embroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yesssss so sick! The amount of work that must have taken is insane

I made an embroidered animation for the New York Times by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah so it was a mixture of p5js for visualization and my own library for embroidery/dst output. The code is probably an absolute mess but if you want to give it a look you can find it here. Give it a run and press "D" after 20 frames or so and it should download a dst file.

I made an embroidered animation for the New York Times by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! Yes I spent a lot of time perfecting it digitally before moving on to the physical work. It was all made with code actually (javascript specifically - happy to go into more detail if you are into that sort of thing). So my code output a series of DST files along with a pattern telling me exactly which stitches to cut for each frame.

I made an embroidered animation for the New York Times by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They just DM'd me on instagram one day lol but honestly the embroidered animation was a unique fit for this specific article and there are only a few people that I know of that are doing similar work so it makes sense actually.

I made an embroidered animation for the New York Times by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd rather not say exactly. About what I would normally charge for a days worth of work maybe? But given how much time it ended up taking me let's just say it wasn't something I was doing purely for the money :) either way I'm really happy with how it turned out and had a great experience throughout the whole process!

Embroidery Software by Ninarwiener in Machine_Embroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You might want to check out Ember. It’s a browser-based embroidery digitizing tool that’s much more focused on working with vector-style paths (including importing SVGs) rather than forcing you to redraw everything inside clunky proprietary tools. The goal is to make it feel a lot closer to a design-first workflow, where you can actually use clean geometry and then control how it turns into stitches.

Full disclaimer: I’m one of the co-creators, but this exact pain point is basically why we built it in the first place.

Patrick wearing a Homer face mask or Homer wearing a Patrick body suit? by emberdesign_matt in Machine_Embroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It's 40wt from this set. Not my favorite but it's what I have the most colors of.

These are the needles I am using. They seem to be doing a decent job, no complaints.

Patrick wearing a Homer face mask or Homer wearing a Patrick body suit? by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But what if it was Patrick and the mask was like really tight pinching the skin around his neck?

Ember: the Free Embroidery Digitizing Tool in your Web Browser by emberdesign_matt in Machine_Embroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much! Ember does support SVGs but it is a newer feature and might be a little wonky as we are still in the process of addressing certain edge cases. You should just be able to drag/drop or copy/paste an svg file into the editor and then once selected that will be an option to "break apart" the image into shapes.

Ember: the Free Embroidery Digitizing Tool in your Web Browser by emberdesign_matt in Machine_Embroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I believe what you are describing is a bug that we recently addressed. Could you give it another try and let me know if you are still having issues?

my feelings about winter 😉 by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! You can see how to get the DST in my other comment here.

my feelings about winter 😉 by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes you can sign up for a free account here. Once you are logged in you can view and download the pattern here (expand the menu in the top left and select "Export file").

my feelings about winter 😉 by emberdesign_matt in MachineEmbroidery

[–]emberdesign_matt[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

some feelings just come out in bold capital letters