Thursday, March 28, 2024

Scene Visualizations: Storyboarding using AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) looks to be a promising tool when it comes to storyboard visualizations for independent filmmakers.  Since my illustration talents peak at stick figures, the advent of  'text-to-image' AI generation has opened new opportunities to communicate to the production team and talent, the look-and-feel of the scene to be filmed.  

The few experiments I have tried using words to convey the visual I am looking for, have resulted in spot-on AI creations (powered by DALL-E3) that I can add to my storyboard.  

EXAMPLE 1:

TEXT: "Create an image from the following description: "A middle-aged woman takes a walk along a wetlands path around sunset.  She wanders from the trail into a tall forest of Black-eyed Susan flower stalks and appears to be disappearing into those flower stalks."

IMAGES CREATED BY THE AI:



EXAMPLE 2:

TEXT: "illustrate an in image of an older blonde woman standing twilight, on a narrow boardwalk in a desert Cienega marsh and staring-up at a small surveillance drone photographing her directly for purposes of monitoring by the state."

IMAGE CREATED BY THE AI:


EXAMPLE 3:

TEXT: "Illustrate a middle-aged woman in a lucid dream environment, being introduced to a dream character, who is waiting along a moonlit path canopied with trees"

IMAGES CREATED BY THE AI:


Besides the practical storyboarding assistance with the AI generated visuals, some of the resulting images have provided me new ideas that I can add to the story and/or creative suggestions on how the scene can be shot from a cinematic perspective.


Wednesday, April 27, 2022

NETHER LAND to Screen in Tucson

Bart Santello and Psychotropic Films are proud to announce that NETHER LAND will be screening on April 27th, 7:30PM at the Hotel Congress in Tucson as part of the 30th Arizona International Film Festival.  See link here: http://filmfestivalarizona.com/film-detail.php?id=1026