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9/29/2023

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Take my love for the film Alien, add little John Carpenter and some Turin shroud nonsense and you have one minute and seven seconds of shonky CGI.
All the cgi was done in Blender, with texturing in Substance Painter. Edited in Vegas.  I used text 2 speech tools for most of the characters. They are still a bit limited even with the emotion controls, but if you pick the words carefully the results are ok I think. 
When I started this project, the idea was to bang something out really quickly. I thought I could do it in a couple of weeks, but actually it was probably more like 2 months solid work spread out over the summer.  Will he ever learn? :-0  
Different to most of my other films, I didn't make storyboards or even have a script until I'd made most of the shots, but because the scope is so limited it didn't burn myself as I've done in the past, so that's a kind of progress I guess. 
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More AI Art

2/12/2022

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More AI art with a theme.  I really should print some of these out.  I could totally see this being used to create art for a collectible card game or something like that. 
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A beautiful painting of radio telecscope next to a ruinous church by David Caspar Friedrich
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A beautiful painting of radio telescope next to a ruinous church by David Caspar Friedrich
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A beautiful painting of powerstation and a ruined church in a snow scene by David Caspar Friedrich
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A beautiful painting of a busy medieval fish market on a beach by David Caspar Friedrich
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AI Art Tool Future Shock

2/10/2022

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Last night I decided to have a play with an AI Art tool that takes written cues and generates finished paintings.  I'd been resisting doing this for a while but since there are now easily accessible cloud based tools I decided it would be OK to waste an evening on it.
Frankly I'm a bit horrified. This stuff is good.  I mean it's really good and I don't know what that means.  Certainly for concept art for games and movies this ability to endlessly remix and generate new images from existing content is a game changer.
The results were wildly better than I expected.  So good in fact that I was up half the night thinking about what this means. I think I have future shock. :-0 
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An Aircraft Carrier in the style of Grimshaw
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A Banana in the style of Chris Foss
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A Rocket launch in the style of David Caspar Friedrich
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A Cathedral on the Ocean in the style of Friedrich
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A PowerStation in the style of Friedrich
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If you want to try this stuff for yourself, it's very easy, you don't need a fancy computer or to install any software since the whole thing runs in the cloud. 
Here's a link to a tutorial that will get you started but essentially all you need do, is scroll down until you see the description of the image and replace that with your own text, then wait fifteen minutes. 

​Youtube tutorial: youtu.be/FA2MNG8D5x0


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More Computer Dreams

2/9/2022

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"A beautiful painting of football stadium by John Atkinson Grimshaw", "green color scheme"
​Disco Diffusion v4.1

There have seen some fantastic images made with this tool.  Very fun. 

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Aircraft carrier in the Grimshaw style :-0  
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ARE WE REAL? Shut up and watch this!

4/22/2018

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This documentary features Bostrom's simulation theory and Conway's Game of Life.  Absolutely brilliant. Get your mind blown :-)

Bostrom's Simulation Argument​

 Could an advanced civilization create a simulation of the universe and if so, what are the odds that we are living it.  Odds are good, or bad, depending on how you view it.
  • Simulation Argument   

Conyway's Game of Life

If you had an 8bit computer you probably typed a version of Life into it using Basic.  It simulates simple biological rules with surprising results.
  • Wiki Page
  • Game of Life (that you can try)
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 Image Style Transfer Using ConvNets 

1/22/2017

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Trying to get my head around deep learning for some training at GDC.  Style transfer is one of the techniques that these things are commonly used for, like the Prisma app, or the paper published by Kristen Stewart at al that you can learn more about here.  

I'm starting to get it, thankfully there are many great resources online.  Here's the paper, watching the video below makes is easier to understand. 

Got distracted and tried taking some of my "photoshop art" and running it through online tools to see what would happen.  Some of its kinda cool.
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Made with https://deepdreamgenerator.com/generator-style
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Made with http://demos.algorithmia.com/deep-style/
I'm thinking this might be a cool way to artificially recolor these images, but what I'd really like to be be able to generate cities from photos of buildings.  Ian Miller style cities.  
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Made with https://deepdreamgenerator.com
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