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Celestine, Oracle of the Misted Moon. AI Experiment. Image generated with Dall-E, video generated with Hailuo, music generated with CapCut. 31.10.2024

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AI Experiment Image generated with Dall-E, video generated with Hailuo.

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Peachtober 2034, Day 5 - Fawn

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Peachtober 2024, Day 4 - Sky

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Peachtober 2024, Day 3 - Paw

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Peachtober 2024, Day 2 - Sparkle

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Peachtober 2024, Day 1 - Daisy

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Binx, wildflower series 2/4 Digital illustration, October 2024

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Gizmo, wildflower series 1/4 Digital illustration, July 2024

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Scrapbook, 6 October 2024

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New tools, old work. Oct 2024.

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Training an AI Model

I decided to experiment. I'm a digital illustrator, graphic designer and artist so part of what makes me curious about AI is how I can integrate my style to expand my creative freedom.

I've been heavily inspired by the Odd Birds AI Project in which, Swedish artist Arvid Tappert has been exploring how to create an AI model, which allows him to generate 'odd birds' in his animation style, adding texture drawings and animations, frame-by-frame animation and walking cycles.

I'm very much in the early learning phases, exploring the capabilities of Dall-E, Pika Labs and Runway ML and how far I can stretch these platforms.

I have jived pretty well with Dall-E - I prefer its ethically trained models, and the way it enables me to flex my creative writing to create the imagery I want. I grew particularly interested in Renaissance inspired artworks that incorporated unusual fantasy elements and storytelling, creating a few really interesting works:

Once I had become familiar with the quirks of Dall-E and its prompting style, I started to prompt my poetry and really enjoyed the creative interpretations of my work:

From here, I started to bring it into my world, incorporating a greater level of Photoshop editing and photography to create a self portrait, and a portrait of my husband. The aim here to try and create consistent environments to elicit the illusion we are in the same space. This was achieved with artist's tools, the light blue porch, white frames, wood, and wind chimes.

These were particularly special to me, and inspired me to move into portraits of my beloved pets in much the same way:

With my use of Dall-E established, I continued to work on additional art pieces, tightening the skill and establishing a style within the AI realm. Next, it was time to explore how far I could take synthography. I was particularly interested in retro, sci-fi aesthetics in worlds that were intricate and impossible. This gave way to the Blown Glass Desert series:

From here, with talk of Sora, I began to explore ai video methods coming across the work of Moss Carpet and voidstomper (formerly thephantom_ai), and generation platforms Pika Labs and Runway ML via a reddit sub r/aivideo. This sparked a new wave of excitement, and I began inputting prompts I'd used in previous Dall-E image generation, as well as existing imagery that I wanted to animate, learning the quirks of these platforms to generate some really cool results!

My first collection created entirely with Pika Labs was inspired by my Blown Glass Desert series, building on the atmospheric 1970s sci-fi aesthetic along with some of my earlier prompts which combined different animals, and human/animal characteristics to create haunting and unsettling visuals. Coupled with some CapCut stock audio that was equally unusual, I built my first visual experience from my favourite generations:

In an effort to understand the limitations, and peculiarities of Pika, I started to venture out exploring the stylisation of the platform with a continued interest in 1970s arthouse, sci-fi and dark fantasy scenes, aesthetics and creatures. More to come in future posts.

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Self. 2024