A favorite series of mine. I liked it so much that I did it twice, with two different Kaiber animations, accompanying. 9-2023
Rope Ladder To The Moon
Sup Dawggs!
I almost forgot these guys! From Jan 2023, so these were Midjourney 5 creations. They were a lot of fun to make. I had an idea to use them to open a print-on-demand store. I thought there might be some interest. Check these guys out! Full of personality.
These could be great gifts for your family “fun” room or a unique gift for a family or a friend. Made of durable, metal, wood, custom framing, multiple sizes. I can also re-create lost furry friends from a photo in a variety of styles on a variety of mediums.
From serious and respectful to comical and fun. (I can do caricatures too!) Contact me here, or browse my store and holla if you have any questions. I like questions!
I ❤️making custom orders!
The Succession, Book II
Chapter 1: Star Hopping
[Book II will now get it’s own creative workspace (woohoo!) here!]
As I emerged from the darkest lapse of inter-dimensional travel, I found myself on a desolate beach on a distant planet. The sand beneath my feet was a peculiar shade of iridescent tan, shimmering like stardust. I could feel the ground vibrate; my body shuddered in resonance. After a moment the strangeness of the experience passed. I was quite accustomed to strange new worlds, they would say. I love my job, I remember thinking. Wouldn’t trade this for anything in the worlds. Anything that would tether me down.
It was then that I witnessed a captivating spectacle. A being emerged from the sand, seemingly growing right out of it. A being of the sand. Its slender white form emerged, unfolded and gestured toward me. There was an intelligence, and the intelligence was communicating through its movement. But I surely could not decipher it. The being then took on a form more familiar to my terrestrial earth sensibilities.
It developed a slender neck and a rather bird-like beak. The being displayed paper-thin folds of translucent glass, in other instances would show rows of long feathers that grew into translucent, ethereal wings. The feathered body glistened in color and texture; it produced its own light’. I had never seen anything like this on any planet; in any dimension. As it rose into the low-gravity atmosphere, it radiated an otherworldly aura, casting a soft, iridescent glow that illuminated the surrounding landscape.
If only I knew what shore on which planet in which galaxy. We both pause to observe this strange emergence into the world of another.
This one should be moved over to PROJECTS.
Enter Kaiber
4-2023 A few early experimentations, now realizing that I have tons of musical clips that I made over the years. May as well use them for something. I still, toyed with some plain vanilla public domain music before that revelation hit me.
It would only be a few months later that tools like Suno and Udio put songcrafting in the hands of anyone. And then AI video, it is all pretty awesome
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CTUCLws1X/
Living Compartment
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Ff1ZkeTJC
Plasma Bulb
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EQ4tBN4Nd
A Flower Arranger
This AI animation is wild! Summer 2023, Kaiber would come to define the world of AI animation for the masses.
Just Passing Through – A Study in Herps and High Society
Ahh, more lizards. This is a favorite. I never tired of making them. June of 2023.
I realized that I was certainly losing some followers with these experimentations, but I felt I had something to learn, though it seems it was slowly. Just waiting for the next step in the evolution of this technology that can be made artful. Surely, animations and then the creation of video on my cellular phone (early handheld mind-extension/stim device) can’t be too far behind.
Very few of this generation “Gen Z” have the need to think about it. I was at the tail end of the “Baby Boomers” generation, born in 1962. Before the advent of the cell phone, I carried a beeper. Google it. I even remember calling the operator to place a long distance call. People take the handheld device for granted. To have the world of information at ones fingertips and instead to look at pictures of women with Botox enlargements to their lips, breasts and buttocks. When humans look back, I hope some will stumble upon this.
To you I sayeth! Remember This! We were the original Cyborgs. We are the ones who are coming back!
Kabuki
This one comes with an accompanying wiki type entry courtesy of GPT 4. A brief history of Kabuki. It is notable that these images aren’t exactly Kabuki, just Midjourneys’ interpretation. With this I begun to understand the stubbornness of generative ai. I suppose it was not so noticeable before because we expected ai to be nondescript and nebulous. Now we start to expect a reality that it can’t really deliver yet. Also, notice the garbled “signature” that would be the the bane of those who want to claim ai output their own. Not a real signature, but an interpretation of what the AI thought should appear there.
A reminder of where this art may have really originated. If I could just land on an idea that wouldn’t be exploitive of what has come before me. Another from May 2023.
My first failed experiment with the stop motion jittery output of a Kaiber animation will be left behind and notable will just be the time marking the beginning of a commercial AI product used for animation, of sorts.
workflow: Midjourney 5, Kaiber
Stop Stairing
I think I lost a few followers around this time, but I swear I knew I was on to something. I would never be taken seriously again!
On The Prarie
Another Midjourney 5 experimentation, and in my opinion, a terrible idea start to finish. But it was an experiment, nonetheless. I enjoy, though how MJ5 composes a scene. Balance and flow.
Lizards
Aside from my mascot, the colorful and swift Budgie, the anthropomorphized Lizards were a favorite. They are scattered here and there. I’ll post the best as I find them.
