Sicco de Vries

3D filmmaker, game tech enthusiast, and art aficionado. Obsessed with AI, film, and storytelling. Join me on my journey to bring pixels to life!

[Sicco de Vries @SiccodeVries]

@anastasiaopara It looks so awesome. You are heroes of proceduralism :)

[Andrew White 🐦‍⬛ @andrewwhite01]

OpenAI Sora can simulate Minecraft I guess. Maybe next generation game console will be "Sora box" and games are distributed as 2-3 paragraphs of text.

[Sicco de Vries @SiccodeVries]

@PaulEsteves28 Having a hard time making that overshoot effect work. Are you using a function or ramp for it?

[Sicco de Vries @SiccodeVries]

@LinusEkenstam @_nonfigurativ_ Ow wow, that's awesome.

[Tim van Helsdingen @TvanHelsdingen]

I looked into it alright

[Sicco de Vries @SiccodeVries]

@nchan I love your in-depth and honest reviews Norman! You never seem to miss a spot.

[Slava Bobrov @slava__bobrov]

Zooming inside your brain:

#neuroscience

[Smoke-away @SmokeAwayyy]

AI CEOs at the White House today.

Late stage AGI development.

Buckle up.

[Sicco de Vries @SiccodeVries]

Witness the up-close beauty of blood clotting in action with these stunning images of fibrin formation. We tried to capture the intricate interplay between red blood cells and platelets in a mesmerizing way.
#ScienceArt #MedicalAnimation #MedicalFilmmaking

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

AI-powered CGI is getting ridiculously better.

It's going to be difficult to tell what's real and what's fake soon, which is the point.

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

Why does generative AI struggle with hands?

It is not a mystical Bermuda Triangle in the latent space. There're compelling reasons:

1. Data size (duh). Face pics are much more common than hand pics. Even when the whole body is shown, hands tend to occupy much smaller pixel real estate.
2. Lack of embodied understanding. This is a much deeper issue: AIs never use hands in the physical world, so they have to infer how hands look in various poses by superficial pattern matching. That's why AI can't even get the number of fingers correct, because hands are frequently occluded by tools or itself. More technically, diffusion doesn't have a working world model @ylecun
3. Low tolerance. It's fine to mess up the texture a little bit, you won't even notice. But getting hands wrong easily triggers the uncanny valley reaction.

Reference in 🧵

[Tim Soret @timsoret]

Wow, the original Wilhelm Scream!

Only 67 downloads so far. Interesting piece of history. I just converted it to video for Twitter convenience.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

The Jay-Z voice you hear in this song is entirely AI 🤯

[Ryan Corniel @DukeGunston]

I'm sure sticky hair has some sort of purpose 🤷‍♂️
#UE5 #Puppets #RealTime

[Ryan Summers @Oddernod]

In less than 6 months nothing is going to make sense ever again.

[Sicco de Vries @SiccodeVries]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Wren @SirWrender]

These shots aren't real.

This next-gen imaging tech is SO POWERFUL and yet... most people still don't get it.

So I made a video to give you EVERYTHING you need to know about why #NeuralRadianceFields are a big deal.
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#NeRF @LumaLabsAI

[Sicco de Vries @SiccodeVries]

I just liked “Il punto è questo” on #Vimeo: https://t.co/T0Tc6a5EQA

[Andrew Price @andrewpprice]

In-painting Stable Diffusion text prompts inside Photoshop. Incredible how fast AI is moving.

[Paul Trillo @paultrillo]

AI fashion show using dall-e to generate hundreds of outfits of the day after tomorrow. An interesting way to brainstorm costume and fashion design ideas.

Collab with @shyamagolden

@OpenAI #dalle2 #dalle #aiart