Perhaps We Both Battle

-


Perhaps We Both Battle  3:32

This one took 3 days to complete. The cost has gone up to about $34. I needed a subscription to an AI image generator. OpenArt AI has a vast amount of animation and image generators. I created my first character with their character creator tool, so I was able to prompt the old man into different settings. I also acquired a year subsription to the AI writing app Eskritor.

This story was prompted with Eskritor. I developed the initial idea from a recent personal experience with a neighborhood dog. I'm living in a small village in Thailand and a dog named Som, likes to take bites at my ankles as I walk to the store. I eventually made friends by feeding him grilled chicken. 

Som is Thai for the number 3. The dog has a stunted front leg that gives him only 3 legs to move about. I tried my best to generate a three legged dog and gave up. The art of prompting is beginning to dawn on me.

My next goal was to move away from the storybook approach that stylizes my first film. I wanted mostly video and dialogue for this film. Dialogue was created with the free credits allowed on the AI voice app by Elevenlabs. It's an amazing tool for voice overs or characters. I'll be buying a subscription soon.

My learning is slow with the color correcting, frame rate transfers and etc. with the OpenShot editor. I also found a new editing program that's free called DaVinci Resolve. I'm slowly learning the basics on this. I was able to alter clips with better results, but the program is very complicated and I have a lot to learn. OpenShot is my go to at this time.


Watch on YouTube:



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Metamorphose

-
Image
  Metamorphose 4:40 This took 2 full days to make and cost almost 10 dollars using Replicates cloud servers. The story was generated with a paid subscription to Eskritor using the following prompt: Write a short story about luminescent creatures running in panic and fear on a field of lava. Blue foam bubbles from fissures. Green lush vegetation grows in isolated pockets. Inspiration for this story was my recent stay on a lava field in Kalapana, Big Hawai'i USA. Edited with two open source programs: Openshot video editor Audacity sound editor An equal amout of editing was needed for both image and sound. Music was generated and cut and pasted like the images. This is my first AI driven creation. Three days ago I had no user knowledge of AI image or sound creation. I also learned how to use both open source editors during the same time. I had a crash course in learning how to use these programs. I still have a lot more to learn. I plan to make and post a new video every week. I'l...
Read more

Drained

-
Image
  Drained 3:59 This film was written with Eskritor and my newest writing tool... Meta AI with Llama 4. Meta AI is absolutely free on WhatsApp. The interactive conversations I have working out story details has been extremely more efficent than the Eskitor app.  This story was inspired from my personal experiences with heat and mosquitos while living and sometimes trying to sleep in Thailand. I wanted to try building a story with no music, just sound effects. I also wanted to try to have more control of my setting and how my character behaved. I wanted to create an actor that had more personality and realism. To help with this, I created a special character using OpenArt AI's character creation tool. Most of the sound was created with the sound effect generator stackadoc/stable-audio-open 1.0, but a few analog sound effects from Freesound were incorporated. This particular film has given me more of an opportunity to use the sound editing program Audacity. It was instrumental in...
Read more

Where Dreams Reside

-
Image
  This short film had similar challenges as my "Rice and Whiskey" short. There were very specific nuances of the setting that had to be correct or it was not authentic in my view. The major problem was with the Thai fishing boats. To quote Wiki:  Thai fishing boats, known as longtail boats (reua hang yao), utilize a distinctive long propeller shaft extending from the rear of the boat. This long shaft, typically several meters long, is connected directly to the engine, often a converted car or truck engine, and allows the propeller to be positioned at the surface of the water, higher than the surrounding water level. This design enables shallow water operation and provides thrust vectoring for steering.  The only text to image model that could get this correct was Google/Imagen 4 and sometimes close with Perchance/stable diffussion. The music generated was created with Aimusic. I developed lyrics with the AI lyrics generator and then created a song that I liked. What's int...
Read more