There's no point in fearing the generative a.i. revolution. It is here, and it is both better than you think, and worse. This little movie started out as a Sunday assignment I gave myself, just to string a few shots together to make a sequence, using Midjourney entirely. You'll see some things in this it does remarkably well, and some it does not. I'm going to try the same experiment with the other leading image and video generating tools.
I started with Midjourney more than two years ago, and spent my time with it both marveling at what it could do, and pissed off at it for how hard it was to direct. It has felt like a wrestling match, with a new set of invisible rules to learn every time there was an update. This remains true now.
But what is truly great about it is its ability to give voice to the mute artist in all of us. It is unruly, yes, but it is capable too. I started this movie "Human Food" with nothing but the plan, like I said, to string 3 shots together with some semblance of continuity between shots - and to use a garbage truck. After a day of working on it, something much different than what I planned for had come together. I found the image generator to be an image "collaborator" with the mind of a five year old. Every once in a while, as it was refusing to give me what I wanted, it would give me something inspiring that would send the emerging story on a slightly different path. That was fun. I felt like I was both pushing the software with my creativity, and chasing its own.
More to come!
Lincoln
HiattMedia
Digital Studio
Creativity is Contagious
HiattMedia
Digital Studio
Creativity is Contagious
There's no point in fearing the generative a.i. revolution. It is here, and it is both better than you think, and worse. This little movie started out as a Sunday assignment I gave myself, just to string a few shots together to make a sequence, using Midjourney entirely. You'll see some things in this it does remarkably well, and some it does not. I'm going to try the same experiment with the other leading image and video generating tools.
I started with Midjourney more than two years ago, and spent my time with it both marveling at what it could do, and pissed off at it for how hard it was to direct. It has felt like a wrestling match, with a new set of invisible rules to learn every time there was an update. This remains true now.
But what it truly great about it is it's ability to give voice to the mute artist in all of us. It is unruly, yes, but it is capable too. I started this movie "Human Food" with nothing but the plan, like I said, to string 3 shots together with some semblance of continuity between shots - and to use a garbage truck. After a day of working on it, something much different than I planned for had come together. I found the image generator to be an image "collaborator" with the mind of a five year old. Every once in a while, as it was refusing to give me what I wanted, it would give me something inspiring that would send the emerging story on a slightly different path. That was fun. I felt like I was both push the software with my creativity, and chasing its own.
More to come!
Lincoln
There's no point in fearing the generative a.i. revolution. It is here, and it is both better than you think, and worse. This little movie started out as a Sunday assignment I gave myself, just to string a few shots together to make a sequence, using Midjourney entirely. You'll see some things in this it does remarkably well, and some it does not. I'm going to try the same experiment with the other leading image and video generating tools.
I started with Midjourney more than two years ago, and spent my time with it both marveling at what it could do, and pissed off at it for how hard it was to direct. It has felt like a wrestling match, with a new set of invisible rules to learn every time there was an update. This remains true now.
But what it truly great about it is it's ability to give voice to the mute artist in all of us. It is unruly, yes, but it is capable too. I started this movie "Human Food" with nothing but the plan, like I said, to string 3 shots together with some semblance of continuity between shots - and to use a garbage truck. After a day of working on it, something much different than I planned for had come together. I found the image generator to be an image "collaborator" with the mind of a five year old. Every once in a while, as it was refusing to give me what I wanted, it would give me something inspiring that would send the emerging story on a slightly different path. That was fun. I felt like I was both push the software with my creativity, and chasing its own.
More to come!
Lincoln