"Brave Love" release! USD 2.99 to rent on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bravelove
There is only a little use of AI in "Brave Love".
“Brave Love” effects were mostly done by 2024 when I started AI trials. My biggest need is green screen "keying" and “rotoscoping”. I have been unable to get a good and useful AI keying result from my trials so far. The keying we see in “Brave Love” is all human-driving of “traditional” algorithm-based video editing packages.
Another need is background crowds. My AI trials failed until the end of 2024 when I had a small success. This is 7 seconds of a partly-AI composite running 01m 45s to 01m 52s. I wanted to show the 1930s rise of extremist mob rule in the imaginary city-state of Lagado.
This clip includes a lot of redrawing from me. The AI spider was so bad I was inspired to get back to basics and get outside with a camera to photograph a real spider to work from. The crowd and its animation comes from 2 different AIs. One for generating stills - "Microsoft Azure Dall-E". And another for animating those stills - "RunwayML".
"Brave Love" has other part-AI elements.
- Audio enhancement - about 5 seconds of audio recovery and repair.
- Audio enhancement of 2 songs. These are my recordings of a human singer with studio-style enhancement from a web service described as AI.
- Some background still images
My general impression of AI - over hyped, disappointing, with some limited niche usefulness. AI may produce eye candy one-off images and video but my experience is that I could not get it to play nice with other elements as part of a creative whole. AI is however rapidly improving and I may give it a different future report.