SHORT FILMS
Experiments with a.i. video generations using both text to video & image to video prompts.
Roughly chronological (first results of early October 2024 at bottom of page).
Join me on my roller-coaster ride down the a.i. rabbit hole. Still not sure where it's all leading but the new tools are fascinating and the "aha!" breakthroughs very rewarding. Film may appear out of step with the Paradox Island artworks I've been producing over the last 5 years, but it feels like a natural progression. As the generators become more powerful, possibilities seem endless. Lots of connections are springing to mind regarding past projects, ripe for new leases of life. Since they cannot all be realised, I see these - like everything I make in whatever medium - as prototypes & blueprints.
Experiments with a.i. video generations using both text to video & image to video prompts.
Roughly chronological (first results of early October 2024 at bottom of page).
Join me on my roller-coaster ride down the a.i. rabbit hole. Still not sure where it's all leading but the new tools are fascinating and the "aha!" breakthroughs very rewarding. Film may appear out of step with the Paradox Island artworks I've been producing over the last 5 years, but it feels like a natural progression. As the generators become more powerful, possibilities seem endless. Lots of connections are springing to mind regarding past projects, ripe for new leases of life. Since they cannot all be realised, I see these - like everything I make in whatever medium - as prototypes & blueprints.
MORTGAGE LAND / Hailuo a.i. / Nov 2024
Spot the spelling mistakes, a common bug in generating visuals in a.i. which is still in its infancy.
What an incredible potential for lone film-makers creating on a home computer. Hollywood will be turned upside-down.
Spot the spelling mistakes, a common bug in generating visuals in a.i. which is still in its infancy.
What an incredible potential for lone film-makers creating on a home computer. Hollywood will be turned upside-down.
CURRENT PROJECT
SOMETHING CHRISTMASSY / "Good Morning" scene test / Hailuo a.i. / Dec 2024
Some of these 5.64 second clips won't be used in "Something Christmassy" (working title) for different reasons, some more obvious, like having no legs or a dog with two tails. I'm working through 350 clips for 24 scenes generated so far. Each clip is built from a text description, or prompt, the more detailed the better. So this is principally about writing. It feels like writing a painting. Then comes the editing. Because so many results are unusable (some hilarious, some horrible) many go straight in the bin. So producing 350 half decent clips has taken up to 2000 attempts. Each attempt takes up to 10 minutes to process, which happens in the online ether, & you can only process up to 5 clips at a time, so there's a lot of waiting involved. (Do something else in between.) As results come back, you continually tweak the prompt to get a better outcome. Which makes all this a labour of love &/or the hobby of a madman.
SOMETHING CHRISTMASSY / "Good Morning" scene test / Hailuo a.i. / Dec 2024
Some of these 5.64 second clips won't be used in "Something Christmassy" (working title) for different reasons, some more obvious, like having no legs or a dog with two tails. I'm working through 350 clips for 24 scenes generated so far. Each clip is built from a text description, or prompt, the more detailed the better. So this is principally about writing. It feels like writing a painting. Then comes the editing. Because so many results are unusable (some hilarious, some horrible) many go straight in the bin. So producing 350 half decent clips has taken up to 2000 attempts. Each attempt takes up to 10 minutes to process, which happens in the online ether, & you can only process up to 5 clips at a time, so there's a lot of waiting involved. (Do something else in between.) As results come back, you continually tweak the prompt to get a better outcome. Which makes all this a labour of love &/or the hobby of a madman.
SOMETHING CHRISTMASSY / "Going Out" scene test / Hailuo a.i. / Dec 2024
SOMETHING CHRISTMASSY / "Sunday Shopping" scene test / Hailuo a.i. / Dec 2024
(Caricaturisation discarded in favour of realism)
(Caricaturisation discarded in favour of realism)
FASHION WARS / Hailuo a.i. / Nov 2024
BEDS & PILLOWS / Leonardo a.i. / Oct 2024
6 GENERALS / Runway a.i. / Oct 2024
12 GENERALS / Leonardo a.i. / Oct 2024
SPIKE HEAD / Sound & filters test / Runway a.i. / Oct 2024
HALF WAKE / Leonardo a.i. / Oct 2024
First goes with a video generator / Leonardo a.i. / Oct 2024
Based on Fake Albums
Based on Fake Albums