joão

helping great companies become pop culture

[joão @fishesareweird]

life update: i'm going full-time on weird fishes, my design studio

i grew up with unsupervised internet access and spent my teenage years making album covers for SoundCloud rappers

now i'm 20, designing for startups that have raised $120m+ combined

let's talk!

[joão @fishesareweird]

@jaivinwylde @mutuals_inc 🦅🦅🦅

[joão @fishesareweird]

https://t.co/kQmwQmruA2

[joão @fishesareweird]

Weird Fishes

[joão @fishesareweird]

working on a cool new personal project

[joão @fishesareweird]

@vkrauch thanks!

[Joao Bortotti @john_bortotti]

Using @kaigen3d, @gdechichi's C engine, to build a fully autonomous character.

First step: a livestream. It talks with the streamer, reads the chat and decides what to say on its own.

Building this at @mutuals_inc

[Juniper Pi @juniperpi_]

i think i'm getting good at outside (*´ω`*)

[joão @fishesareweird]

quick showreel of the animations and rendering

[joão @fishesareweird]

ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)

[joão @fishesareweird]

surprising but familiar is exactly it. the results are stuff i appreciate as art but would def not design on purpose

i think thats because the profile is trained on what i like but not what i make. clients dont want their brand to look this uncanny

so its less a new region and more the part of my taste that my work filters out

[joão @fishesareweird]

all of these have the same exact prompt btw

[joão @fishesareweird]

AI image generation discourse is so boring

we have a whole new art form and everyone is just optimizing for realism or engagement

why can't we just be silly with it? see how far we can push it

[joão @fishesareweird]

it started as yolo but after lots of testing i figured some things out

semantics definitely dont transfer. i tested pasting code for a shader that renders a plain red circle on white, but got a black and white grainy image back

my current theory is volume. after enough unreadable characters MJ just tries to scrap something together. i can guide aesthetics/vibes with my personalization profile or moodboards, but never can never get it to generate similar images. very interesting!

[joão @fishesareweird]

@jrysana thanks for the kind words!

[joão @fishesareweird]

life update: i'm going full-time on weird fishes, my design studio

i grew up with unsupervised internet access and spent my teenage years making album covers for SoundCloud rappers

now i'm 20, designing for startups that have raised $120m+ combined

let's talk!

[joão @fishesareweird]

https://t.co/CckZ3VHXw3

[joão @fishesareweird]

fully edited with opus 5.5 btw

[Noise @noisedotxyz]

Miley Cyrus fans are following accounts, saving songs and making posts to earn a TikTok profile frame.

That's a lot of promo for a circle around your face.

[joão @fishesareweird]

@TommyToday @eriktorenberg @noisedotxyz being early is one of the best feelings in the world. why not encourage it?

[joão @fishesareweird]

every opus 5.5 video editing tweet i've seen so far has been absolute shit and people are freaking out about it

how is the bar this low