elekktronaut - altered states

Discovering liberty within everyday existence
Music video of my own track I made a while back, created with TouchDesigner and StreamDiffusion. I first cut the original video into a basically finished piece and then used that as a source for SD, while adding a bunch of processing including audio reactivity in TD. The final output was deflickered, upscaled and edited with Davinci Resolve and Topaz Video AI.
The challenge was to keep the movement of the dancer visible and clear while still adding the abstraction made by TD and SD, so in the end, I had to composite the original with the AI layer -- it was a lot about balancing AI and original.
I definitely learned a lot, e.g. it's important that the dancer differentiates from the background if you want the AI to recognize it as such in this workflow, or have them be close enough to the camera. Also the outfit was not ideal, as for the AI to see it's a human figure, it appears to be better if there's a clear and consistent silhoutte. The background should already look close to what you wish to see in the end, for me personally the first part works better than the second, because it's filmed in a building which is closer to the city/graffiti style than what I wanted the second part to look like -- natural and organic.
While it was amazing to work with dance and actual video footage, I think I will focus more on purely digital as I'm more in control of the content that way. Let's see, it's such a new and quickly evolving tool and workflow, I'm very curious to explore many different methods.
Huge thanks to everyone involved!! ❤️
Dance: Aya Nakagawa
Camera: Marta Pang
Audio Mastering: Phelan Kane
Music, Visuals & Editing: Bileam Tschepe
More coming soon hopefully, still got many finished tracks waiting to be shared along visuals.

[@davidjakacky3079]

Absolutely sick dude, you’ve taught me so much about touchDesigner in the last couple months and you continue to inspire me.

[@elekktronaut]

thanks so much ❤️

[@nateux8267]

When I see people post AI generated art that all has the same style and then claim they "made" that work... I think about something like this that demonstrates how AI can be used to make art... not as a search engine that let's you prompt an AI to make art but as a tool/technique that let's you explore novel ways of collaborating with technology, generate treatments that have context and intent, and achieve original stylistic approaches.

[@elekktronaut]

that means so much to read, that's exactly how i approach ai as well. happy to hear you can see that :)

[@THEcucufate]

Here here!! Love it when they say "my art" too LOL

[@rungordonitsthepoliceman]

came for the touch designer tutorial, stayed for the music i'm learning TD to improve my multimedia capabilities. this is sick love it

[@arefcee8291]

Wowww

[@samuelslade]

Love your tutorials so much! you have really helped me form a passion within somthing that i love!

[@andrewalva1669]

Yooo! The sound track is really nice! You nailed both, visuals and music; loved the end result 🔥🔥🔥

[@elekktronaut]

thanks so much ❤

[@nfstreet]

Really amazing!

[@vendacious]

Great to see you making new stuff!

[@elekktronaut]

thank you!! so happy to be able to work again :) and now with all these new tools

[@deejayphani]

Love the visual and music !! Great Job !

[@elekktronaut]

thank you ❤

[@juliahertrich6646]

So beautiful!

[@elekktronaut]

thanks! 🙏🙏

[@greyaltaer8788]

You got me with the Desiree sample. Nice one.

[@elekktronaut]

🥰🙏

[@plyzitron]

Yes yes yes ⚡️love it!

[@elekktronaut]

thank youuu 😌🙏

[@xianyaowei6214]

Unbelievable I like it so much

[@elekktronaut]

thank you!! ❤️🙏

[@nico3144]

This is so great

[@elekktronaut]

thanks so much ❤

[@markus_knoedel]

Woa. So cool. Finally something new with this AI stuff....

[@movieman1717]

This is really sick

[@elekktronaut]

cheers 🙏❤️

[@lightiberius]

so damn rad

[@abregegere]

Beautiful!

[@elekktronaut]

thanks ❤

[@cheesybirdmess7349]

Love mixed media art. I think it will evolve even more in the upcoming years

[@elekktronaut]

thanks! yes, absolutely. i'm very excited about the seemingly endless possibilities of including ai in my workflows in different ways

[@airanmilian]

That's pretty cool:)

[@frekvensnord]

very nice sounddesign!

[@elekktronaut]

thanks :) ❤

[@designerathislowervalue]

so coooool...!!

[@elekktronaut]

thanks ❤️

[@magenta6]

Great piece of "action painting" + CHOPS + SOPS + TOPS

[@elekktronaut]

🙏🙏❤️

[@luzid.vision]

beautiful expression

[@elekktronaut]

🙏🙏❤️

[@davidmathuna]

Dope!

[@elekktronaut]

thank you ❤

[@ElVic8514]

What a great piece of art. Been learning a lot about TD from your videos so seeing production work like this is super motivating. What song was the one you sampled? It blended so well with your mix.

[@elekktronaut]

thanks so much! the original is sonique - feels so good

[@ElVic8514]

Ah that's right. Sonique! Thank you. Gonna go listen to it right now.

[@MassimilianoCerioni]

Nice one, mate!

[@elekktronaut]

thanks massi ❤

[@SamIOnety]

mega geil 🔥🔥🔥

[@elekktronaut]

danke bro 😘

[@dotsimulate]

♥

[@elekktronaut]

all thanks to your work 🙏🙏❤️

[@jelle0790]

coool

[@billionaireno1]

You made this music as well? Very talented.

[@elekktronaut]

yea, music is where i come from apart from design :) thanks so much ❤️

[@breppbrepp]

Teach me senpai

[@elekktronaut]

will do 🥰