Here is a fun AI experiment I played with. I made this lil’ series of #microfilms using @runwayml #gen2 ‘s “text prompt to video” feature to make these - (they are a series of 6 or 7, 4-8 second individual clips) - I spliced /edited all with my iPhone using the iMovie app in about 15 mins each - such fun, and I like how fast I can ideate and iterate - more to come!
What if Idris Elba & Damson Idris played in a movie together? What if that movie was about the richest man who ever lived, Mansa Musa? What if it was also about the first Africans to explore the Atlantic Ocean and discover the Americas over 150 years before Christopher Columbus, Mansa Abu Bakr II? Would you go watch it?
Like many of you, I want to see and tell stories about OUR people. I want to see those stories told at a Hollywood production level. We deserve it (Hollywood is uninspired, right now anyway).
I’m not using AI to fool anybody, I’m using AI because I don’t have the money or the connections to get in a room with the executives at #appletv #universalpictures #netflix #primevideo #wbpictures #paramountpics #disneystudios or #sonypictures to help them see the big picture (yes, I did just tag all of them. This is a pitch 😁)
I know there are many others that want to tell #MansaMusa’s story like @michaelbjordan & #RyanCoogler (@proximitymedia @outlier_society lemme know if y’all want to work with me 😬); I just want to see it done right!
Anyways, if you enjoy the video, follow @themansaverse as I intend to make more of these.
Tag anybody I mentioned or anybody you know that could help make this a reality.
Genre: Epic Historical Fantasy
Logline:
“In a world where magic and political intrigue intertwine, Musa, thrust into leadership, confronts a world of jinn and deep-seated betrayal. As he navigates a labyrinth of ancient magic and cunning enemies, he allies with a slave empowered by mystical forces, challenging the realities of his kingdom and faith.”
ANOMALY Z S1E9: “21st Century Man”
Rated TV-MA, 50 min.
Ace settles into his new life in the 21st century. Zane discovers how to travel across multiple timelines - AKA "The Multiverse." A timeheist is interrupted by a group of mysterious and hostile robed women, who somehow follow Zane and Ace across timelines.
Put myself into this painting, The Double Secret by Rene Magritte
RunwayML: erase and replace, expand image, interpolate between frames.
Adobe Premiere Pro: Made subsequences in order to apply chroma key and use cropping multiple times. Tracked mask. Copied subsequence with the same mask so one could be inverted while the other wasn't.
I did some exploration of the RunwayML with video to video style transfer.
First I uploaded a public domain video shot ‘dancing’. Then I stylized using the presets available there Each video can be output for 5 seconds only as of now.
This was stylized as ‘colorful claymation’ :
Another style ‘paper art’ transfered to the video clip:
With watercolor style it looks like this:
Here is a…
Created and written by M.J. Romanowski.
Click here to learn more about the multiverse of Anomaly Z.
MUSIC: "Madness on Stage” by Moodmode via Pixabay. “Cut It” by Silent Partner - Copyright/royalty free via youtube.com/@WHATPictures. “Hip Hop Rock Beats” by QubeSounds via Pixabay. Video animations created with RunwayML. Input images created with Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Input images edited with Adobe Photoshop/Firefly, InsightFace Swap, and FaceApp. Magazine cover created with Pho.to, Midjourney, and Adobe Photoshop/Firefly. Sound effects and stock footage from Pixabay. Additional shots created with LeiaPix Converter. Video editing with CapCut and Microsoft Clipchamp. Fedora Zane and Ace voices: M.J. Romanowski. Voice changer for Fedora Zane and Ace: Koe Recast. Voiceover editing with Flixier.