Are you feeling okay? Do you need somebody to talk to? I'm all ears.
I just looked at your profile,
the only thing that seems to be on it is AI post after AI post after AI post after AI post.
YET, You come here and tell me that my idea is solid, but AI makes it look like crap. What do you get out of being a complete hypocrite and coming at me sideways like that when you use more AI than I ever have? Lol did you think I would just be quiet because I'm a music artist? Lol lady, you probably should have looked up what my music is about before running your mouth. The only thing my music is about is standing up for yourself against bullies. Congratulations.
Story time!
To set the stage, this video is about human struggle, both my personal struggle and many others, so it was important that I have myself as the main character. Each character is a general representation of people from my life who have come and gone. and were meticulously crafted. Every aspect of this video from the time of night to the scenery to the birds and lightning bugs have special meaning to me and were intentionally placed.
At first, I was dead set on keeping to my 90s aesthetic like my sound, I tried to hire a few graphic designers. I wanted to keep it in the real world and collaborate with people in my community. but one after another they left in agreement that we had something worked out and then I never heard from them again. this whole time, time was ticking, as it had been a while since my last release.
If I am being honest, I wasn't really looking forward to paying a graphic designer 1,000s just so that I could make $2.00 off of my streams but it was a hail Mary pass trying to get that extra little edge to get people to notice my newly starting out artist name and gain some fans.
I was hesitant to use AI for a video at all. all I heard was how people don't need talent to make something with it and it was easy.
So, between that, the fact that it had been a while since I had released new material, being unable to count on people I should have, and sheer curiosity. (Can't knock it until you try it, right.)
I went all in. I added photos of my self and made characters, I used programs I had never used like runway, Kling3.0, Nano Banana, Gen 4.5, and a few I have like Gimp and Grok.
I had to learn things Like character stills and from what angles, so the AI knows every angle of the face and body, how many, what background to use, character consistency and how to command the AI to get what you're looking for, so I had to learn things like camera language mm and panning terminology, and It goes even deeper.
My "easy" project required countless hours of education, and sitting on rendering wait times. Over 1000 renders and I finally got the 35 I needed. It took 6 months but If I were to do it over again keeping what I have learned, I could pull off the same quality in 3 months no doubt.
Turns out. Making AI short clips is fairly easy to get what you want. but Ai hallucinates and adds things and takes things, and from my own personal experience, it Likes to do the opposite of what I ask a lot of the time and then claim ignorance. or would give me the scene exactly how I wanted it but make 1 tree disappear or morph ruining the render.
What did I learn? A LOT! but mostly I learned that I have an almost infinite patience, way, way, more than I ever gave myself credit for. lol. I learned how to speak more directly and to the point. I learned that there is a lot of skill and talent that actually goes into it if you want faces, cloths, hair, skin color, tone and expressions to stay the same, continuity is not something AI does well at all.
Final verdict. I had fun. But it is like working alongside a 10-12-year-old that tries to take over constantly, It was a roller-coaster, Fun, infuriating, moments of wow, moments of what in the actual F..........? we laughed we cried. lol
In all honesty though. I would do it again as my label Funky Monkey Studios LLC for an artist that wants it.
But I am personally still on the fence with it. I was a 90s kid that is my vibe. I don't use AI in my music at all, and a lot of people see this and assume my music is the same way. I don't like that and don't want that for Mossy Strings. That being said, I released the video anyway because I am Not a person who hides what I do, and I speak only from what I know, or I say I don't know, or I don't speak at all. I never Speak from ignorance; I speak from experience.
What do you think? How do you view AI? Is AI here to stay? or a passing fad? Or is AI all that and a bag of chips?
@WavesOnWaves3 I love it. I realize music like this is associated with the 80s but being a 90s goth in high school this song really takes me back! great job! I shared your music to my wife. she is going to love it!