Video and animation AI isn’t yet ready for primetime. It’ll get there. But the consistency isn’t there yet to reliably produce logical and consistently-artistic images.
Moodboards, Prototypes, & Explainers
Atheism Documentary
Humans, Objects, & Concepts Put into Motion
Six Videos & Six Methods
There are two different workflows that I’d use for this project. One for detailed and visually exacting work. And one workflow that begins with a quality illustration and allows AI to interpret the scene.
Method A
AI Illustration & Motion Design
The above illustration (and other similar styles) were made into video scenes.
Cinematography and theatre prompts are important for this method. The base for everything, however, is a beautiful illustration.
Method B
Detailed & Intricate Sketchwork with AI
This is a style of imagery where the main illustration is a detailed sketch, an intricate artifact.
Hieronymus Bosch was an obvious influence for this illustration and AI-generated video.
Method C
Painted Scenes with Repeatable Characters
The power of recollections and narrated scenes is that the animation that tells their story can be symbolic and interpretive.
Sophisticated character designs in all sorts of artistic styles are now possible.
Method D
Low-poly Caricatures & Scenes
The purpose of this prototype is to show a method of mapping a human faces and body types into engines that can produce repeatable likenesses.
Generative AI — if guided correctly — can rig and animate short scenes of motion and character movements. AI Avatarscan fill in for real life charcters (in certain circumstances).
Method E
Straight-to-Video AI & Illustration Filter
This is obviously the most preferred option in terms of speed and cost — text to video. However, it rarely produces anything useful.
Consistent prompting and a confirmed cinematic style, like “noir”, are important. Still, results vary greatly between AI software engines and even within the AI applications internally.
Method F
Textured Experiences & Recollections
Consistency in colour grading and motion design is best achieved if it stays with a human, finishing the look and feel with digital software.
But here’s where creativity and art direction are at their best. Add textures, interesting perspectives, and colour schemes to your suite of animation.
Choosing a consistent illustrative style and approach to cinematography goes a long way to keeping revisions and timeframes in balance.
