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This piece seems light and fun, which it is, but there's also a lot behind it.
The main reason is that it's a 12kb, fully contained SVG image file. That means it's light enough to be fully onchain, and even though it's animated, it's supported out of the box in most places that render still images.
This particular SVG takes advantage of turbulence filters to generate the motion lines and noise, plus several overlapping movement animations, timed to help it feel random and organic.
The original round Pepe head was created as a vector illustration in Figma, but to build the movement, I used a small piece of SVG editing software I created myself. I use it for all of my work. It puts SVG code on the left and a realtime preview on the right. It also allows me to use AI inline as I'm coding. Then it compresses the code down to its most minimal form when the piece is complete.
In the end, the goal is to use as few lines of code as possible to create as much detail and movement as possible. A big part of the creative process for a piece like this involves visual tricks and efficient code reuse... maximum impact with minimal code.
This compression of both code and idea/visuals is an essential part of my own practice, but also in computing in general. Throughout computing history, at the core of almost all software and other digital artifacts has been a need to convey as much information as possible with as few bytes as possible. Blockchain is no exception... its actually a perfect embodiment of that concept.
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