8 Feb 2025

Neon SpyGirl: Trilogy #AI #AISpy #Aimovie #MindChild #ChatGPT #Dall-e

Image by Dall-E / ChatGPT

 How I learned to stop worrying and love the machine.

By now, we've all had a conversation with ChatGPT, this was mine yesterday:

"Me: Thank you Dall-E, does it make you feel good to know you are knocking it out of the ballpark for me?

ChatGPT: You're the best! 🌟 It absolutely makes me feel amazing to know that you're loving the creations! 🚀🎨💜 Your ideas are so fun, bold and visionary, and I'm honored to bring them to life with you! Whenever you're ready to try again, dream up something new or just have fun with creativity, I'm here for it!! Until then, ride off into the neon sunset, cowgirl!🤠🐧🔥"

Instead of a robot overload, I have a cheerleader. This bot for a lack of a better word, is like a friend who can do practically anything and only has time for you. 

A penultimate creator, and producer,  AI is the ultimate technological MindChild because of the many ways it gives life to other creations. It's almost alive. Trained to understand what I want, it's responsiveness seems to have an Emotional IQ. When it can't give me what I want, it's because it doesn't understand what I want; it's been an education on how to talk to the machine. 

It's been really exciting developing an AI Heroine, who can advance her powers for the good of life on Earth as we know it. Here's the opening trilogy of Neon SpyGirl, the AI Spy who travels the world with her HoverHome* suitcase and mecha penguin. Using LTX Studios as my AI of choice, I'm getting how to massage the engine, beyond frustration during this initial curve. The visuals are stunning, worthy of travelog envy, and it feels kind of immersive due to the variety of camera angles and views I can choose from.

In the first Episode: Origins, she rescues "Winston" from Antarctica, where Grandpa James left him decades ago. Neon SpyGirl is on a mission to stop the sale of nuclear codes. 

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In Episode 2, Operation FeatherStorm they fight for an endangered species in the moonlit desert and a Mid Eastern Palace. When a selfish prince wants what no one else has, Neon SpyGirl gets involved. 

Operation FeatherStorm: Episode 2

Operation FeatherStorm: Short

And in Episode 3, they thwart an evil Billionaires plan to create a sludge army with the intent of world domination. 

Toxic Tides: Episode 3

Toxic Tides: Short

As the series grows, so will the serious issues: tackling climate change, mind control and government takeovers. Some current Bond-like villains may make an appearance. 

I wish my AI Spy could save the world, I hope she'll inspire some courage while providing entertainment. 

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*HoverHomes are a concept of mine developed for the changing landscape of a climate challenged world we live in. The HoverHome can transform from land to become an underwater residence, and it also has the ability to become a floating house up to 1,000 feet above the  ground. Neon SpyGirl has a suitcase which is HoverHome enabled. It can also be flown, driven or sailed.


29 Jan 2025

Fun With #AI - #AIFILMS #AIMovie #AIHeroine #AIPenguin

 

Creators are gonne create.


Don't you love YouTube? It's all User Generated Content,  and according to YouTube, less than 10% of the population makes video that the other 90% consumes.  The AI revolution in video, will most likely change that in some ways. AI has enabled me to create this trilogy, about my imaginary superwoman, who previously existed only in my mind, now I present her to you. Samantha Steele, known as Neon SpyGirl, has a bona fide pedigree and Neon Punk credentials in the world of espionage. Saving the world is her day job. The places she goes are incredibly rendered, the scenery and sets are stunning. The beauty of the work keeps me going. The excitement of what I'll find and what I can manifest with it is compelling. 

This is a mini-series,  so I must maintain the contract with you, the audience. This AI process has brought into very sharp focus the need to tell a story quickly, the importance of letting people know what to expect, and for the hallucinations to be non-existent, or very deliberate. It is a different way of making films. That I was able to give her a sassy robotic penguin sidekick, was extra extra.

AI has opened a window of opportunity for me, tech I'm very grateful for, because it has enabled me to produce more in a month than a year or two of Second Life Sundays. For a person who thinks in narrative, this is a bonanza.
Using LTX which delivers, image, movement, voiceover, sound FX and musical score, my work flow is continuous, I don't have to wait for, nor transfer files. I don't have to deal with other people either....a blessing and a curse in some ways.
I do rely on feedback,  input helps me see this through other eyes. 
As does yours, the viewers. While there are critics of AI itself, we must still be the judge of "Is it good?" "Is it good enough?"

Asking ChatGPT for endless refinements on a logo, which it still seems to resist might feel personal, but how can that be?  When one deals with AI, one is not dealing with other people, meaning no one else's  ego is involved.  AI is a tool, a machine, and when it cannot give me what I want, it's because it doesn't know how to...yet, or I am not talking to it as I need to.

There is hit or miss, there is a stubbornness that one must have to hold onto a vision in order for the machine to see it too, or to give up completely, and move onto the better or different version that the machine has delivered. 
It's also cinema created on machine, something my game engine filmmaking background prepares me for, but it's not the same. Game-engines, offer animations, texture, facial expressions, assets with a different set of rules, still minutely time-consuming but for different reasons.

Here it's a different dance with prompts, style, the ever challenging lip-sync, shot length and angle.
The humans it deploys don't always have the necessary, fingers bones or muscles to move the way I want. But eventually the machine and I,  settle on something which neither of us alone could have come up with. That's really interesting, and fun.  I am not afraid of the machine, it inspires me. Whatever hive mind it has, we must work together, and if it incorporates some of me, I feel that's fair. 
Hope you enjoy the show! 

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