For the next few months (or until I get bored), any experimental film festival accepting submissions is getting an exclusive Stop Making Sense made just for their festival. If you curate a festival and are interested please get in touch.
Warning: strobing
This started by trying to emulate Kirlian photography (I'm too scared to try it at home lol) and ended up somewhere very different.
Krea 2 Medium and Kling 3. Fully prompted, structured and edited with my Hermes agent.
Ideogram actually burned in a safety filter into the Ideogram4 model. This is without any prompt upsampling, which seems to trigger false positives, with AI Toolkit default prompts. Most failed like this. It actually diffused and generated this image.
Today I am releasing Ostris Cloud. If you want to help support the open source development of AI Toolkit while renting compute, this is a great way to do that. Link in 🧵
I'm thankful for artists that don't lie to you and tell you everything they make is oneshotted. AI tools are imperfect beasts, and seeing others wrangle them is helpful for everyone.
Every film I make starts as a pile of still images. Often hundreds.
The hard part was never making them. It's knowing which ones become a video.
Here's my full process for generating, curating, and prepping images using Krea's K2. The part most people rush. 🧵
taking nothing away from Ingi’s sick video, but this is a similar process I used for my old stylegan videos. StyleGAN -> custom ffmpeg script for the slitscan
nature vs machine
working on a @ComfyUI node for overlaying graphics onto footage, guided by masks or pose data. Still not quite there yet so the gfx here were mostly partly in AE