Thisal Samarasinghe’s Post

New AI Short Film. 'Edith and Fred' . A fun excuse to play around with a new video 'restyle' feature from Runway ML Gen 3. It's far from perfect, but it is interesting and kind of fun and you can apply endless restyling effects... I just happened to go for 'knitted wool'. Consistency between 10-second generations isn't currently possible, but it kind of suited the narrative. I used 'Live Portrait' to animate the characters, acting out the roles of the characters and applying it to a 2D character image before changing to a knitted wool style with RunwayML. My new course on using Live Portrait is now live at https://lnkd.in/ePx_49D7

Here is my latest creative AI video for Runway Gen:48 contest , a short film titled "Kaikisen", accompanied by a poetic narration. In a world where the oceans have vanished, and deserts stretch endlessly, a young man with echoes of the sea in his veins walks alone, holding onto memories. "Kaikisen" explores themes of resilience, the unyielding power of hope, and the human spirit's connection to nature. Images_Midjourney Animation_Runway GEN3 #runway #Gen48 #AI #IA #GenAI #shortfilm

Your thoughts can be turned into powerful visuals using the RunwayML text-to-video prompt. #aice #aiced2024 #alx_ai

First pass on a low-resolution video with overlapping characters and scene cuts, using #wonderstudio GenAI, it automatically animated, lighted, and composed my CG character into the Tin Man's dance. With some glitches, it did a pretty great job with their pattern mapping system. All I needed was the Tin Man's hat! #machinelearning #genai #creativeprocess

AI for the best and the worst ! but AI everything everywhere all at once

Amazing on many levels. Think of all the content Hollywood pops out, at hundreds of millions of dollars, and how on point much of this is. On top of that: “I created this piece on my phone during my 5-minute coffee break, while cooking a paella and driving the kids to school - Because that's what AI trailers are all about! Not a single image was upscaled x8 using Magnific AI, all animations are Motion 5 Default Settings on Runway's Gen2 with no motion brush, and 0 color grading was done in post-prod. “ Remarkable, democratizing, and also scary for entire industries and economies. In 3-5 years the film, design, art, legal, accounting, engineering, and architecture industries will not be what you know them as today. Beyond that - just think - how in the hell are you going to protect your own image likeness, voice, and identity in a rapidly evolving content world where you can generate a digital twin, scrape your behavioral data, and others can use a copy of you to test on, and to act at their control - on their phone in seconds. Mind blowing and concerning. #ai #film #marketing #architecture #design #meteoriscoming #change #future

Runway have just announced 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼, a new feature for Gen-3 Turbo that opens up a new world of possibilities for AI video. 🌟↔️↕️🌟 It'll allow you to transform videos into new aspect ratios by generating new areas around your input video. You can generate without a prompt, with a text prompt or with a reference image. There's clearly lots of potential to create VFX type shots with this feature. By expanding more than once, you can create dramatic crash zooms and pull-out reveals. Chain multiple expansions together to create cinematic camera movements from static footage. Expand Video has begun gradually rolling out and will soon be available to everyone in Gen-3 Alpha Turbo. #expandvideo #runway #aivfx #gen3

Some Friday fun... Proudly presenting: 📽 EPIC TRAILER - THE FILM. A parody of all those AI trailers out there, for my own therapeutic purposes, and your enjoyment :) Many of the shots and uhm, "dialogues", were contributed by my friends Christian Fleischer, Justin Hounkpatin, Abel Art & Machine Mythos. I created this piece on my phone during my 5-minute coffee break, while cooking a paella and driving the kids to school - Because that's what AI trailers are all about! Not a single image was upscaled x8 using Magnific AI, all animations are Motion 5 Default Settings on Runway's Gen2 with no motion brush, and 0 color grading was done in post-prod. 👍

In anticipation of becoming the next Tarantino of AI filmmaking (waiting on Runway Gen3) i've looked up the camera angles to make some interesting shots. From all the classic shot angles, four worked consistently enought to be worth a mention. 1) "Straight on shot of a ... " (creates an intimate connection with the character, as talking to at the eye level). 2) "Low view shot" (makes the character look large and authoritative). 3) "Above shot" (makes the character took smaller and submissive). 4) "Top down shot" (makes for good contextual environment shots). I tested these in SD1.5/XL, DALL-E and Midjourney. They work nicely in the first two, and somewhat also in MidJourney. The more i use MidJourney the more i realize it's a style mixing tool, not so much an accurate image generator. Anyways, wanted to share these in anticipation of testing Runway Gen3. Have a great weekend. #creativity #artificialintelligence #generativeai #filmmaking

AI isn't only to automate tasks and make your life easy. But it can enhance your creativity like never before. Check out this short video created by Keerthi Shekar G. If this can be created for creative mastery, think about how we can enhance your marketing and advertisement with AI. Follow us for more! #runway #AI #AIvideo #AIimage