AI Assisted Productions

  Desperate Ride 4:21 This one was written with assistance by Meta AI with Llama 4. It was inspired by my recent visit to the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve in Kansas, USA. I wanted to create a film that captures a broad sense of space and has a lot of moving elements too. This was the perfect story for this. The major challenge here was the gag that has the rider falling from horse and on to the back of a buffallo. It utilized failed prompts for images that were created with layered elements in GIMP and then edited to create the action. The next challenge was the hat gag. It also require tedious setups for prompting. This film also made me aware of Vozo's lipsyncing weaknesses. Characters with beards are problematic.  Vozo is regarded as one of the most accessible AI generators for lipsyncing, using their precision mode, this was the best I could generate. I decided to not even bother for the last 2 shots of dialogue. The music was beautifully generated by Meta/music gen. It requi...

  Circuits of Identity 5:15 This one was written almost entirely by Eskritor. The idea was formed by some recent articles about gender assignment in robotics in Japan and Korea.  The challenge on this was creating an android that didn't look like everyone elses. Image prompting is limited to a language model and it's source material training. I've become more aware of the "styles" avalable and I'm beginning to learn how to morph my own. The next challenge was setting. Creating an environment, a "set" is a tedious process of acquiring the needed perspectives and weaving them together. I feel sometimes I'm working on a 3 camera stage set sometimes.  Creating the hand written note in the scene was another challenge that took a lot of effort. I was able to get GPT Image 1 to generate an image of the note that I layered into another image. I was unable to get any of the other image generators to do this. All the output had distorted and/or missing let...