Welcome to Art for After Hours: Professional Chalk and Mural Art
3D Chalk and Painted Works
For Live Events, Launches, Public Art using Hand Painted Art and Emerging Technologies such as 3D Modeling, Animation, Augmented Reality and VR Art Installations. Our models come directly from our hand painted work to make Art and Technology come alive as one.
Adding 3D modeling of my handpainted art from murals, watch the flower grow. All animation is made directly from my hand painted petals and leaves.
Promotional video clip of our 3D modeling processes to create live immersive experiences with painted murals in chalk or paint and augmented reality from our actual art.
Torico Ice Cream Mural - Jersey City, NJ (October 2024)
3D animated sprinkles were added made specifcally for our ice cream driven outdoor mural. We can create 3D animation from our painted murals and studies for your live events and launches.
CRUZ Foam and ReAssembly for Climate Week at Civic Hall in NYC
(September 2024)
Art for After Hours reproduced these Client supplied images for CRUZ Foam and ReAssembly for Climate Week at Civic Hall, NYC.
The marketing campaign is about CRUZ Foam - a packaging material made from food waste and it totally decomposes!
Working in NYC is always challenging, from time limitations to worn surfaces to the large number of people in any given area. Creating art that sends a strong, innovative message is what we at Art for After Hours do.
Recent WIP to share: Extended Reality (XR) with our Projects (Fall 2024)
Now in process bringing designed and creative extended reality (XR)- Mixed, Virtual, Augmented Reality with hand created murals and chalk projects.
Using a hand painted 3D illusionary mural, adding 3D animated created from scratch blue butterflies to show how XR can be a part of traditional murals or chalk art on pavement.
Animation as part of an XR project this Fall. The hand drawn pastel frames will be interacting with our butterflies and effects using MR, VR, and AR components.
‘Double Collapsing Ramps’ Interactive 3D Chalk Art, Bridgewater NJ
(June 2024)
‘Double Collasping Ramp’ for Bridgewater Commons Mall in Bridgewater NJ
‘Shark Fin Party Hat’ Although it was super hot out at Bridgewater Commons but our chalky friend doesn’t mind as he is donning his Shark Fin Party Hat and splashing in the water!
What he doesn’t know is the background work that went into him behind the scenes - thanks to 3D modeling, texturing and shading of my hand drawn art, and even on more detailed projects animation of the pastel art studies to join a project like this as animated augmented reality. feel free to contact us for more details for your projects.
Thanks to some 3D modeling, we positioned our chalky friend the way we needed him onsite…
Mural: Beach BBQ in Long Island NY (June 2024)
Mural project using liquid chalk for a soon to open BBQ spot on Long Island NY. The area of work was 5’ x 16’ in size.
Chalk Art Signage: National HIV Testing Day in Union Square NYC (June 2024)
Happy to be involved with National HIV Testing Day - Union Square, NYC.
This is the largest community event of its kind in the country in 2024.
Using client supplied graphics for Gilead HIV (Get Tested And Press Play) chalked 5 pieces around Union Square, while set up was happening, and the usual flow of New Yorkers going about their business…so lots of people!
Street Art In New York City: Monkey (April 2024)
Street Art on rolldown gate in Midtown East NYC.
Corporate Chalk Installation: nextview - NYC (February 2024)
Art for After Hours recently completed project for nextview, a venture capital firm in midtown Manhattan. Nearly forty chalk art tiles with the logos of developing companies in their portfolio were created and placed across the reception area.
Corporate Launch: Consilio Complete AI - NYC (January 2024)
This is a chalk art installation as part of a two day corporate launch for Consilio Complete AI. The work was done over three panels at three by six feet each.
Hospitality Mural: ‘The Muse’ The Muse Hotel Bar - NYC (January 2024)
This marker mural was created as a signature piece for the hotel bar in the Times Square area of NYC.
CBD Dispensary ‘Sweet Strands’ Wraparound Immersive Mural - NYC (December 2023) - Phase 2
I’ve spent the past few weeks painting murals for a soon to open CBD dispensary in Queens, NYC. I first painted the first photo mural as a 3D/anamorphic signature mural for the client. She loved it so much, she asked me to come back and paint a wrap around “weed jungle” on the remaining walls, with a large brightly colored bud on one wall. I also painted the exterior facade banner with her logo and products. It was a very fun and creative project, with lots of latitude with my designs. However, it was cold, especially painting outside! I finished work on Dec. 23rd.
Thanks to Wendy for the exterior assistance of moving the scaffolding and keeping me safe on an inclined street.
I am now working on an animated AR (augmented reality) component using the painted art, which my client is thrilled about and can use in her marketing!
This client may have the brightest and most creative, original CBD dispensary in NYC! Feel free to reach out to Art for After Hours with your mural plans, AR components - whether a dispensary, or any scenario where we can design and create a mural with a blend of handpainted art and even emerging technologies.
CBD Store 3D Mural With Anamorphic Illusion Wall - NYC (November 2023) - Phase 1
This is a 3D anamorphically designed mural created for a soon to open CBD Store in Queens, NY. The angled wall has an anamorphic effect to allow the image to look the way it does when viewed through customers’ phone cameras.
Details of areas of the mural showing CBD products and the vertical anamorphic illusion on the side wall.
Details of the intersection of the 3D with the anamorphic illusion of the wall with the products; artwork.
Large Scale Festival 3D Chalk and 4D Augmented Reality Installations
‘Visions of Cambodia’ 30 by 40 feet - chalk on pavement
First Command Private Event Midtown Manhattan
Anthony Cappetto posing with 3D painted/chalk street art mural for First Command private event in Midtown New York City.
Composite Imagery from our 3D painted/chalk street art mural for First Command Event.
Video highlights from our art at the First Command event.
Previous Select Projects:
‘Collapsing Ramp’ chalk on asphalt
Koi Pond in New Jersey October 2022
Four images from the koi project in New Jersey.
Onsite 3D mural for the NFTNYC2021 conference in midtown Manhattan featuring the popular characters of Blankos in ‘Blankos Block Party’. The characters being sucked into a black hole having fun in the process!
Details of the ‘Blankos Block Party’ …
‘Spaghetti’ chalk on pavement
‘Urban Tightrope’ chalk on pavement
Art for After Hours 4D Projects Using Augmented Reality, 3D Animation with 3D Chalk Art and Murals
Art for After Hours had a great time at the Lewiston Art Festival bringing the work of Anthony Cappetto’s chalk art and 4D augmented reality to the public.
The chalk art depicts the Niagara River and local scenery while the animated augmented reality shows a rising sphere, a digitally drawn backdrop featuring ‘The Spirit of Victory’ local statue, moving clouds, floating spheres (from the statue base), corporate sponsor logos all seen only through our animated and still augmented reality - completed with the ambient sound of rushing water for a blended, immersive experience for the attendees.
The floating spheres in the AR backdrop and the animation in the water at forefront came from the sphere present in the statue and the spheres floating was inspired by Surrealist Rene Magritte’s ‘The Voice of Space’ (1932).
Chalk artwork 10’ x 16’, two days to complete. Animation and other augmented reality aspects longer based on design, complexity, interaction, and effects.
Client: Lewiston Council on the Arts
‘Sunflowers and Bees - For our Artist Friends’ An augmented reality 4D chalk art installation realized live at the 2022 Chalk Festival in Venice, Florida April 1-3.
Thinking of not only the war that has brought near unspeakable horror known only until recently in the minds and experiences of the oldest members of our world society, but for artist friends the street painting community (that we belong to) share and we have worked alongside in the USA and Europe over the years. The Festival Theme was ‘Resilience’ - sunflowers are resilient, bloom, and grow large annually. They are fitting as the National Flower of the Ukrainian People. This project was created concurrently with traditional dry chalk on pavement, augmented reality in the form of a prepainted canvas (the standing sunflowers in the blue box beyond the chalk art), rigged and animated buzzing bees moving between the drawn pavement chalk and the AR illusion beyond.
This art is dedicated to the People of Ukraine. May this war end.
Watch the floating logo on the chalk drawn water and the pool ladder at the far end of the pool. 10 x 18 3D chalk piece with animated 4D augmented reality done for private event.
Poolside AR, Water Mill, NY
Client: SERHANT Real Estate
‘Birds’ - Second of Four Chalk Art pieces in Times Square for the launch of ‘Concrete Jungle AR’ produced by Jamestown L.P.
Art for After Hours partnered with Jamestown L.P. and One Times Square NYC as they launch their ‘Concrete Jungle AR’ live interactive experience. Anthony Cappetto created ‘Jungle’ as part of four themed illusionary chalk pieces celebrating the different aspects of the app across Times Square.
4D Animated Augmented Reality/3D Chalk Art in Westfield NJ
(June 2021):
‘Pool’ chalk on pavement with animated 4D (augmented reality) characters
Bringing our hand drawn art in the traditional form of chalk art with our unique hand drawn augmented reality imagery for an immersive mixed reality exhibition at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square NYC.
Still photos from our 4D installation at NASDAQ MarketSite with animated augmented reality and 3D chalk art for the viewing public.
Select projects from Art for After Hours - Experience the exciting and immersive world of 4D mixed reality with our hand drawn, animated augmented reality imagery, traditional chalk art or painted murals for your next event, tradeshow, or launch.
Anthony Cappetto, Founder and Artist of Art for After Hours created an augmented reality demonstration in Washington Square Park (as part of a larger segment on street art) on a freezing morning in mid December 2021. Many people came by to say hello and see our augmented reality with hand drawn chalk art in New York City.
The 4D illusion seen through our setup turned out great and the finished segment was broadcast in Germany and across Europe.
We had to wait until now (late April 2022) to share publicly between segment production and the onset of the war in Ukraine but it was worth the wait. Special thanks to Igor Rosenfeld, Chefreporter and everyone at JanusTV for inviting me to be in their program!
3D video for curvilinear surfaces such as buildings, public places, and public art installations of our 3D animations and hand drawn/painted illusionary murals for unique pairing of traditional chalk/mural art and emerging technologies. Talk to us about your scenarios and projects.
Art for After Hours Virtual Metaverse Space Components for Chalk Festivals
Views from our ‘sandbox’ in Second Life where we imagine 4D chalk art with generated ground and standing, animated 3D models sometimes with our actual hand painted murals such as the rhino. This way we can create experiences with hand drawn chalk, painted murals, digitally printed for indoor/outdoor uses when live art isn’t feasible or desired. Our AR and animation components work with the ground art when viewed through our screen(s) for public interaction.
Our virtual metaverse space in Second Life, the first of its kind to present, create, develop, and host virtual street painting, chalk festivals worldwide, regardless of weather, or time.
Imagine a physical (real life) event with our 4D animated augmented reality components together with hand drawn chalk art, or mural painting, or digital art printed and/or brought in as part of the animated augmented reality experience.
And even more so running a concurrent virtual metaverse component with the above. Physical, live, virtual, hybrid… Art for After Hours with innovative metaverse can bring, design, and realize the blending of traditional hand drawn/painted art with emerging technologies.
Talk to us at either acappetto@artforafterhours.com or anthony@ispg-inc.com to discuss your possibilities in our new art/technology of the past, present, and future now. Look forward to speaking with you.
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From top left: Construction of the innovativemetaverse/AfAH street painting art pavilion with high rise at right; my avatar on the pavilion; framed view of the metaverse space as of fall 2022; on the pavilion looking at our artforafterhours.com video feed; homepage for innovativemetaverse (ispg-inc.com); close up of some of our 3dmodeling processes; rigged animated creature (we call him ‘Spinach’); a frame of composite scenery blending augmented and virtual street painting; animated ‘mosaic’ rhinos (originally hand painted and generated as rigged, animated creatures for live physical AR.
2023 Traditional Hand Drawn Chalk Art/ Painted Murals with AR and Animation ‘Voronoi Urban Jungle’ ‘Mosaic Rhinos’, and ‘Voronoi Creatures on the Move’
4D Augmented Reality Goldfish Bowl with Chalk Koi Pond/31st Avenue Open Streets Program in Astoria NY (July 2021)
Watch Wendy and me having fun with the 4D augmented reality fishbowl and our pavement art Koi Pond at 31st Avenue Open Streets! Note that all of our 4D illusions are hand drawn as our chalk art is typically.
New 4D Augmented Reality projects by Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours: 31st Avenue Open Streets (2021), Community of Westfield NJ (2021), Project In Brooklyn, NY (2019), Dubai Canvas (2015).
Watch Anthony and Wendy try to keep up with the AR ‘Silly Dancers’ !
