Thursday 30 November 2023

November 2023 -- SUMMARY

 30 blog entries for November 2023 -- as many posts as there are days in November!


This was a crazy month for AI as Sam Altman was fired from Open AI, and then rehired again.  Plus there is a suggestion that Open AI has recently achieved AGI (and more scuttlebutt and doom and gloom).



Meanwhile I pushed my drawings further with AI -- through video, 3D and the improving 2D AI image generators.


END of Another ERA

We had the last drawing session at the NORTH FOURTH ART CENTER in Albuquerque -- forevah -- on November 16th, 2023, as the art center is closing the end of the year. The sessions started on December 2, 2021, and I first drew there on December 9, 2021.  A big thank you to Athan (Tim) Psomas for monitoring the sessions for two years.

BUCKET EXHIBITIONS
something to show for it

At least we had something to show for this era.  I had been bringing the Tortilla Press to the drawing sessions, so that during the model breaks we would make prints.  This cascaded into the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS, and we showed many of those prints at the "Deck The Walls" exhibition at the North Fourth Art Center.   



In fact, we showed 88 prints total -- from Albuquerque, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Texas/elsewhere and Mexico.


showing at the North Fourth Art Center
 in Albuquerque


AI VIDEO

This seemed to be the month of AI Videos as I discovered new online programs and pushed the AI videos as far as I could:


These are the AI video programs that I used:

I think the YouTube videos probably show off the video AI muscle better than any explanation:





I further altered the PlaiDay video output
with more AI using ModelScope Video2Video









They are now getting closer to making something like a movie with AI:
3D AI

3D in AI is also making big leaps.  I pushed these three AI 3D programs this month:
  • CSM (image-to-3D on Discord)
  • Genie by Luma Labs (text-to-3D on Discord)
  • MasterpieceX (text-to-3D animation)
    • Note: Latent Labs doesn't seem to work anymore on Discord

CSM

2D to 3D: I uploaded one of my better Midjourney 2D images to CSM, and generated a 3D file:

DOWNLOAD: "ropesculpture.GLB" (3.81 MB)


Tim and Adam at Quelab helped me 3D print the above 3D figure, as both a small one inch resin print, and (later) a large 7.5 inch PLA print:



GENIE

On November 1st, Luma Labs premiered  -- Genie -- the text-to-3D generator on Discord; and I generated a "robot javelina" in Discord:

DOWNLOAD: Javelina_Robot.GLB (4.95 MB)


MASTERPIECE X

Later in the month I discovered Masterpiece X, which would not only generate a 3D file from text, but would animate it too:

DOWNLOAD: An_artist_with_a_bad_haircut_1.GLB (18.83 MB)


2D AI IMAGES

Leonardo.AI

I revisited Leonardo.AI, mostly because it won't censor my figure drawings (unlike Midjourney);  it also lets me train models from my drawings; and it generates the best AI results in my figure drawing style.  It's still free, though there is a paid plan (which would not accept my VISA gift cards when I last tried it a while back):





Midjourney

Midjourney introduced "Style Tuning," so that one can steer the results more towards a particular style.  But there is nowhere near the control you get when you train a model in Leonardo.AI:



AI EXHIBITION

I saw the most impressive physical AI Art show so far, by Jonathan Loth, at the North Fourth Art Center, down the hall from where we were exhibiting our 8x8 inch prints:

Jonathan Loth filled the walls of a whole room

LCM
AI in REAL TIME

In November a few programs surfaced that would create AI versions of one's drawing -- IN REAL TIME -- for every stylus mark one made on the computer screen -- Latent Consistency Models (LCMs).

I'm hoping that these programs will "correct" my drawings, as I draw the live model in real time.  Finally I might be able to draw!!!


because I can't draw


The Collab LCM program worked, but their model "corrected" my drawings into anime:






I bought a Samsung Galaxy S9+ tablet so that I could draw the model at the figure drawing session, and have the Internet correct my drawing in real time:








RANDOM AI

It is just hard keeping up with all the new AI ART programs, and I found a few more in the last hours of November, which I listed in the Random AI blog post:






PRINTS

We showed 88 prints -- 8x8 inches -- at the North Fourth Art Center during their final Deck the Walls art show.  Next year in 2024 the art center will be closing.







QUELAB

I spend a lot of time at Quelab hackerspace in Albuquerque.  I aspire to try to use all their tools to make something physical from my drawings.  Adam CNCed one of my drawings into acrylic:






 FIELD TRIP



SOFTWARE


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