Disney Animator REACTS to AI Animation!

Very insightful to get director & animator, Aaron Blaise's opinion on the AI animation transformation

It takes the pencil out of your hand, and put the camera instead!

It is just a filter! 

Confirming that having a consistent style is the real challenge, here in both AI and traditional generation.

There is a rotoscope feels to it (this was used for Fire & Ice for example, and Lord of the Rings mostly in the end)

this new technology will reduce costs, and number of people involved ; this will enable smaller studios to produce good animation. 

InvokeAI Unified Canvas

There is a certain frustration that comes after generating AI artwork ; it feels like a lottery, some prompts will return great images (but with a little defect here and there) and then there are many failed attempts, where the images are just not good, partly out of frame, or simply with deformities, or artifacts (purple blotches, weird eyes, weird hands, etc ...)

Surely, this is normal, and AI artwork is still in its infancy, or at least early ages ; it is still impressive. but as an artist, you need a little more control than just changing a word here and there, and pressing 'run' or 'launch' and hope for the best.

In the coming year, there probably will be some kind of a sketch application, and AI will then improve the images (man made) ; instead of asking the AI to do everything, this is probably what will be the definitive step forward.

controlNet is going in that direction, by helping an AI or strongly suggesting a pose to start with.

It can be based on a sketch. And then there is invokeai, which offer an environment for the creative minds. 

Highway to brutal capitalism

Highway to Cam model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WXBMgjYGA

As we are entering a turning point in the human history and our economy push young girls to start jobs like "webcam model" and think they are a viable business model or an attractive solution.

Because confronted with the choice of uninteresting jobs paid with minimal wages, they happily turning themselves into sex workers.

And the saddest part of the video is that she starts by talking about taxes.
You can ruin your life young girl by committing yourself to be forever haunted by a past of being a camgirl - but make sure you pay your taxes. That is the thing, you shouldn't mess with.

#camgirl
#cam.model
#cammodel
#jessica.wilde
#brutal.capitalism
#sex.workers

tsu.co the future of social media?

Like i wrote previously - I would never joined facebook ; but recently I've been invited to tsu.co and I created an account at https://www.tsu.co/alashazam

Account creation is easy 

The good thing is you can change everything if you made a mistake
first name, lastname, even the url (what tsu call "username") can be changed.

After the account is created, you will have to acknowledge the analytics page (with a warning against spam) - and the bank page (with a warning against abuse)
what you can do on tsu - is post images (they are protected against copy - but not against screen capture obviously)
post texts, currently you can't post video - but you can put youtube links. Then you can share what other people are posting, comment and like their posts.
You can send messages, you can use hashtags, or mention someone in a post using @ and their username.

All that is the ABC of social media - facebook, ello, diaspora, tumblr are doing the same.

Now where tsu.co is a big game changer is that he rewards users to post, and stay on the site by sharing the advertising money with their users.

Game Changer

The question is then raised -why isn't tsu.co not draining all social media users ?- and the answer is probably because not many people are aware of informed about tsu.co

For people addicted to social media - being paid to post, share, like and interact with friend is like a dream come true.
but I guess, for other people the resistance to switch to tsu.co is simply because their friends are not there but stays on mainly facebook.

Money, money, money

Back in October 2014 - for the early adopters money was pretty good - making 0.10$ on the first day wasn't uncommon - now it is more like 0.01$  - but as all passive income, the amount isn't important - what is important is the regularity of the flow.
Many people are just starting to understand the potential - but since everyone is collecting small sums donation to charities are possible, donation between users too - and in the future maybe paying artists for services or commission.

Time will tell how tsu.co will evolve, I hope it will attract many celebrities, writers, artists, musicians, freelance (content creator) and will allow them to gain visibility and money.
It has potential to attract people from fiverr, or other low income freelance services, and even from from paypal (when the money to be transferred doesn't exceed 100$) - Letting other social media like facebook for family or close friends interaction.

Fundamentally what is the benefit of having 1 millions likes or followers if a celebrity on facebook doesn't make any money out of it?

Some facebook power-users have found that putting a gofund.me link is a lucrative way to earn money - as a rule of thumb, for every genuine 10,000 likes a page can make a sell.

Maybe this sell come from poster print, etsy shop, zazzle links or donation - on tsu.co all this merchandising is possible but with the addition of redistributed advertising money as a regular income.

Now as for tsu.co power user you can check the "discover user section" and you will undoubtedly see the real King of Morocco - that sets a precedent.

If you are looking for an invitation link - here's mine I'd be glad to be your parent
https://www.tsu.co/alashazam

An offer you couldn't refuse

Interviews are welcome

I feel like it would be beneficial to open my blog to other people and allow them to have a place to post about their services or hobbies.

If you are an artist, freelance, cosplayer, linux developer, aspirant designer, comics writer, reiki master, spiritual healer, clairvoyant etc ... and be interested to post an interview on my blog. Here are the questions template I would use - send the completed interview to my email address

Questions

These would be the questions (feel free to modify them, as you like)

1. Can you give a short bio ?
2. What got you into "your field of expertise" ?
3. What are the required qualities of a "person in your field of expertise" ?
4. What are your visions of "your field of expertise" for the next years ?
5. What do you wish "your field of expertise" would be in the future ?

Please then add any of your links you'd like to share

Example of an interview with Katybear - found here.

P.S : As the editor I keep the right to decline posting or review part of the interview - or to discontinue this service anytime.

The service is free but donation are welcome.
See static page for more details http://alashazam.blogspot.com/p/open-for-interview.html

Brutal capitalism

Starting your own business

Many people nowadays are deciding to make the step, and start their own business, it's in the air ... The days of being an employee for life in a company is over, now people have to change career at least every 2 to 4 years.
And the prospect of having a boss in a corporations that lead a race to the bottom (term devised by Seth Godin) isn't a daily motivation.

But what are the alternatives?

The first thing obviously is to do a bit of soul searching, and understand what makes you unique and then to launch a career as an entrepreneur.
Of course we hear a lot about freelance writer, internet expert, web-designer, or virtual call-center agent, life coach, private tutor and any sort of consultant. 

But at the end of the day ... all these people are discovering that they just have switched their employee's seat for an even tougher job - where this time they have to be the employee, the decision-maker, do all the administrative tasks, and more every-day... because of aggressive deadlines, difficult customers, or a bad payment.
They find the hard way the not so glamorous side of having a business of their own, which offer many challenges like the need to build a network of customers, and build up trust with them, and all that takes time... time when the competitors starting now are making huge discount to enter the market.

So after a while, things can get ... challenging.

And that's because the economy has entered a new phase, a new revolution - and is accelerating the movement, I call this "Brutal Capitalism" and things are getting weirder and weirder ; when you start to realize that jobs like "webcam model" are basically starting to appear as viable business model or an attractive solution for young girls.

Because confronted with the choice of uninteresting jobs paid with minimal wages, they happily turning themselves into sex workers.



This is my rant for the day. Maybe "Brutal Capitalism" isn't hard enough .. "Hell Capitalism" could be more suitable.