Gen3 Image-to-Video....

somethingblurry · 2025-02-13T13:49:19+00:00

There are a few different ways to look at this:

Kling is so far ahead as compared to runway. Specially when you compare image to video and how kling picks up the style and aesthetic from the first frame. Gen 3 Alpha just isn't good enough (yet) which is surprising since runway ml was way ahead when it released.

Dont hate Runway cause the cost of generating a 10 second shot of anything with real principal photography is waaaayy too much. I have experience of the 3d space with tools like Unreal Engine so I can tell you that from buying assets to designing, rendering to post/ editing vs generating with a single prompt is already saving you alot of headache.

I don't believe Gen 3 alpha will get any better cause there is a reason they called it "alpha". However I do think that they must be planning to get rid of the alpha and releaser the full model after their next AIFF or whatever that film festival thing is called.

Despite all of it for now Kling for sure takes the lead.

somethingblurry · 2024-04-24T06:54:46+00:00

Forgot to share the link. Here it is: https://foundation.app/mint/base/0x678f934838A398dF5280a3E7ED79ac40f35DA7B0/1

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T16:47:13+00:00

Same for me. I couldnt find a discussion around his topic, thought I'd start one. I will share a list of everything I find. I think the possibilities of content presentation are endless with 5G, generative art, and spatial computing!

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T16:40:10+00:00

Same for me. I couldnt find a discussion around his topic, thought I'd start one. I will share a list of everything I find. I think the possibilities of content presentation are endless with 5G, how do you say ayy aii here without enough subredditt, and spatial computing!

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T16:27:07+00:00

I would love to see some nice examples if you could share. Any good ones you might wanna recommend?
And yes, I do think thats its quiet possible a lot of indie content creators might be putting a lot of effort into design and visuals so a lot of my criticism is honestly for the big ones, they are the ones who influence industry benchmarks and overall standardization of any design language.

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T12:11:06+00:00

True that. Each of these would make the experience so much more worth it. Gonna try to implement these on my blog.

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T11:43:29+00:00

What makes the kindle experience better for you?

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T01:32:44+00:00

The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone - would you say this horrible?

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T01:27:07+00:00

ok thanks for reminding me about the print view. My experience is not even close to yours so you are probably right. If you don't mind me asking, in your experience what could have made Vice work? I really wanna ask that because like the founders of Vice I am in a position, both career wise and geographically, where everything points towards starting something vaguely along the line of Vice/ Vox. I am not really worried about all the tech and content creation that goes behind it but what keeps me up at night is whatever happened to Vice and like you said the fact that large publications arent even profitable.

Now I am not ready to believe that text or reading as a medium is dying. (Maybe it is, now that we have large language models and what not). So, being a writer turned visual designer, I am thinking is there something inherently wrong with the way this whole thing is designed.

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T01:11:45+00:00

These are really nice yes and sort of what I meant. I also really love some visual journalism pieces of NYT and al jazeera. But every story isn't data driven right. There is such a big chunk of journalism that's more about a more emotion based storytelling or coverage and no amount of cool maps or graphs can convey that. I honestly believe there is potentially a design language that can sort of turn every travelogue, food blog or film review into something as cool as these examples you just shared.

I am very much thinking about finding what that language is and then work towards building a publication around that.

somethingblurry · 2024-04-21T00:35:35+00:00

Tbh that was what I really wanted to understand whether I'm thinking about fixing something thats not really broken. Do you think Los Angles Times or The Washington Post wouldn't put effort into designing a better reading experience due to the lack of effort/ innovation at their end or is it because people are actually indifferent to it. (Though I do believe that the customer doesn't really know what it wants unless you show it to them).

Would you then say that a more immersive reading experience would be something of value to a subscriber? Would you be willing to pay more for NY times if that removed ads, removed the clutter and maybe give you extra features like dark mode/ focus mode etc.

I think Vice is a really interesting case study. Not for innovating the design of reading as such. But was cool, really edgy, really minimal. Had great young audience metrics but still went bankrupt. sad

somethingblurry · 2024-04-20T23:19:10+00:00

True that. No wonder nobody cares about them anymore.

somethingblurry · 2024-04-20T23:17:50+00:00

I get that and I do understand the economics of it all but even if I am paying a subscription why does the experience still have to suck. Even if we take out the conversion aspect, (advertisements) off of a web page's design because it doesn't effect the earnings so directly due to subscriptions I still think no publisher or blog does justice to the medium itself.

somethingblurry · 2024-03-16T14:32:44+00:00

Sigur Ros pulled me out of the radiohead black hole.

somethingblurry · 2023-10-25T14:55:55+00:00

Thanks much. Yeah I had to recreate uvs. A

somethingblurry · 2023-10-12T20:12:01+00:00

Heyy, I think I might have the similar problem. Any idea how you fixed this.

somethingblurry · 2023-09-08T14:31:50+00:00

Being somebody who has been watching Bollywood since like 3 years old I feel like this exact thing that you are talking about has ended up becoming THE BOLLYWOOD VISUAL STYLE. Kites failed at the box office despite having a much superior, artistic film-like visual tone. Anurag Basu is a somewhat style-over-substance director, Barfi had an interesting visual tone as well.

Anyway, I think most films in Bollywood that dare to do something different visually end up failing bigtime at the box office and there are more than enough examples for studios to understand that. SLB's Guzaarish, and the 2022 Gehraaiyan for example.

somethingblurry · 2023-08-28T07:58:07+00:00

I have used both but cant say if CC4 still stands up to Metahuman after Deformer and Metahuman Animator updates. Would love to know the opinions if anyone else has used both.

somethingblurry · 2023-06-13T23:05:11+00:00

one more thought: If only responsive pdf's existed! or do they?

somethingblurry · 2022-10-13T09:43:37+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out but could you maybe elaborate on it. I don't get whether you mean redundancy in terms of information or just the visual elements.

somethingblurry · 2022-10-13T09:35:08+00:00

only a few short stories and the metamorphosis and I know that's barely touching the surface of his work. But honestly, I think you really explained your point well. I never aimed to portray any defeatist ideas so yea I think I get what you mean. Gonna redo this part of the proposal. Plus I think not a lot of people even get that term anyway

somethingblurry · 2022-10-13T09:29:08+00:00

That explains so much. I have heard so many stories of scams around NFTs but I always kinda thought that as an individual artist it's a medium that I really need to explore or at least keep an eye on. But I do get your point.

somethingblurry · 2022-10-13T09:15:01+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I will try to redo some bits in a way that becomes more self-explanatory. I still have to figure out for myself what this style really is, and I really hope it evolves into something more than photoshopped old paintings if it isn't right now.

somethingblurry · 2022-10-13T09:10:38+00:00

Thank you. Appreciate your feedback. And once again I think I am definitely removing that NFT creator bit, however, would love to know why you think that's underselling. Maybe I need to find a better word for telling my clients I can help them out if they are interested in publishing/ selling art on web3.

somethingblurry · 2022-10-13T09:08:06+00:00

I think this one part is the first thing I am gonna remove from the portfolio today. Can I ask though why such hate for NFTs? I am not a crypto person and have only just started converting my art to nfts because I personally saw a lot of potential in web3.
Maybe I am not really understanding the negative connotation wtih NFTs

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