With this newest experimental quick movie Nature Portals, London artist and director Markos Kay continues his mission to combine AI instruments into the setting {of professional} artwork route and manufacturing.
Markos Kay: “The purpose of the movie was to create a peaceable and immersive journey by the imaginings of a neural community. That is a part of an ongoing collection that explores the implications of a world the place nature and know-how have change into so intertwined and questions the elemental distinction between the bogus and the pure.
“For the previous eight months, I’ve been creating a strategy with diffusion fashions and different AI instruments with the purpose of integrating them into skilled artwork route and manufacturing workflows.
“You’ll have already seen my video Abiogenesis the place AI instruments had been very fastidiously artwork directed to create the visuals; not one of the photographs had been uncooked outputs however quite a results of a posh and really deliberate course of. Nonetheless, I felt that this may very well be pushed even additional.
“That is solely the start… In a couple of years, AI instruments and all these methods we’re creating proper now will change into normal follow within the trade.”
“With this new movie, I lastly really feel that manufacturing values have been achieved that I’m (nearly) totally happy with. I say nearly as a result of I believe the medium may be pushed additional and additional.
“That is solely the start, and everybody experimenting with this new medium is bringing one thing totally different into the combination. In a couple of years, AI instruments and all these methods we’re creating proper now will change into normal follow within the trade.
“When it comes to my methodology, the gist of it’s utilizing diffusion fashions to generate tough compositions or creating compositions with conventional instruments after which feeding these into the diffusion fashions to generate hundreds of iterations.
“After a strict choice course of, the iterations are Photoshopped collectively into a brand new composition after which fed once more into the diffusion mannequin for additional refinement, after which again once more into Photoshop.
This creates a suggestions loop between guide digital instruments and AI instruments giving the artist full management. On this method the AI instruments are artwork directed in direction of a selected consequence, working in the same strategy to a render engine. When they’re completed, the photographs may be taken into normal post-production software program like After Results, DaVinci, or Nuke the place they are often animated with the extra conventional strategies everyone knows.
“As AI instruments develop, we are going to certainly acquire extra high-quality management but additionally extra automation the place wanted. I for one look ahead to seeing instruments designed particularly for skilled use, in addition to superior animation instruments.”
Director/animator: Markos Kay
Rating: Jesse Solomon Clark
