Flow

Just noodling around with Deforum again, another weird moment and a couple of new tricks I've picked up this week. 4K resolution this time as well. Enjoy!
By the way, seeing as we are in 4k with this, see that cog settings thing at the foot of the video? Click that and choose 4K, may as well watch it in brain melting resolution, you deserve it !

[@jaycee3718]

I dream about this reality. Beyond words. Thankyou for sharing.

[@francolli]

I will be planning 'Flow 2' soon in a new style deforum animation style. I think flow is quite soothing to watch, ok there are some un-nerving bits but I could have gone on with Flow for a lot longer, and maybe I could have run it at a slower speed to take in some of the transitions but it was just a spur of the moment thing with how I was feeling on the day I made it. A lot of these animations reflect my mood on that particular day and are fleeting moments. The day after making it I probably was in a different mood and made something completely left field, lol

[@JulieBeaver-lr9xc]

Nice. Love your creations.🌹🌹❤️

[@francolli]

We keep pushing forward with new stuff. I 'm trying to include new stuff and new ways of doing things with each vid. The A.I space moves so fast there are always new things to look at. if i can weird myself out I'm on the right path

[@Zone_Stomper]

Oooooooooooooh! This is well done and good!

[@francolli]

I keep going back to this vid, it just has something about it that pulls you in. I think the constant scene changes help it along as you don't know what is coming next. I also love doing the sound for stuff like this as its so ambient and minimal

[@vasari9198]

I can’t wait to watch this too many times to be healthy…

[@francolli]

Lots to see here, even I haven't been all the way through this yet😁

[@vasari9198]

@@francolli This is another video of yours I will watch again at reduced speed to catch everything; I know it spoils the mood a little, but I like to wallow in all the weirdness.

[@francolli]

@@vasari9198 Yep, Wallowing in weirdness, love that, its what I do all the time

[@ThePerfectRed]

A Hieronymus Bosch painting every three seconds! AI is taking over.

[@francolli]

I'm a big fan of artist Laurie Lipton (you should check out her art) I tried to get as close as I could to her style. Part of my job in the real world is getting into the mindsets of true psychopaths and sociopaths. Flow inspired me by both of those worlds. Even in the darkest places of the human mind there are islands of stability where, if they could be tapped, would produce stunning revelations. There is a fine line between genius and madness. everyone I have met in my line of work strays between the two (which is the road to chaos) I have yet to meet anyone who walks the tightrope between without deviation

[@francolli]

I sometimes wonder if Bosch would get a warning from you tube about the graphic nature of his art

[@FullEarthWorkshop]

I am attracted and repelled…amazing animation!

[@francolli]

Strange isn't it? I love this video, I was thinking of a 'Flow 2' sequel but couldn't think of a subject, although flow didn't have a subject and I kept changing the scenes as I was going through it, so maybe random is better

[@RoseRed9]

Great flow and cohesion. I loved it! 😊👍

[@francolli]

It was just a vehicle to try a couple of new techniques. I'm striving, with the help and encouragement of all the great subscribers here, to push the envelope of the tools available, I have a tendency to switch between stories, poetry and complete off the chain weirdness. Glad to have you on board for the journey🙂

[@RoseRed9]

@@francolli Stories that are told poetically accompanied by complete off the chain weird images is exactly my cup of tea! 😆 Glad to get in on the ground floor. 😊

[@francolli]

@@RoseRed9 You are definitely in the right place then, lol. Sit down, chill, I'll get the coffee on

[@MarcusHardyDJDirtyOne]

Excellent 😮👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🍻

[@nyaneko3877]

great stuff, love the style

[@francolli]

Weird isn't it. The interesting thing for me is the way Deforum handles animation, If I did this animation again using the same wording and instructions try as I might it will always give a wildly different animation on the same theme in the same style. Every animation here is unique and cannot be copied exactly. I just love this chaotic aspect

[@FranciscoJavierEspinosaRomero]

Amazing awful nightmare

[@francolli]

I love 'Bloom' no idea what was in my head that day. I have a strange system, I won't even start an animation until I get some inspiration, sometimes at 3am in the morning I'll just get a flash and need to start work on something immediately and will be like a dog with a bone until its finished. Other times I start something and abandon it because A.I hasn't caught up with the idea in my head. this one (Bloom) was a 3am thing, kinda half asleep weird idea in my head

[@glennbond8266]

Cool. Nice transitions between environments. Depiction’s.

[@francolli]

I'll be returning to the abstract and poetic soon, lol. I have been looking at unreleased poetry archives for possibilities. Also been looking at voice cloning to create something a little different to read an unreleased piece from an author

[@tj2745]

Gotta wonder what typical life experiences were way back when artists drew various forms of decay of the human body that has endured as an art form to this day. Were cemeteries more like open landfills? Probably best off not knowing but something very real gave birth to depictions of decaying human remains.

[@francolli]

What's really interesting is that Deforum takes its reference from something called large language models, it creates its weird imagery from images and combinations of images it finds from the models. The models are based on images in existence across the internet and wider areas. All of the images that made up this animation exist somewhere in the real world right now. Its a strange place out there

[@skystraveler2036]

You don't know how accurately close you are referencing an open landfill!. In biblical times if you were a good person that passed away you were given a decent burial. if you were a criminal, thief, rapist, murderer. anyone that was executed they just tossed your corps into the burning landfill out side the eastern gates of Jerusalem in reference to Hell being a "Firey Pit"

[@udolehmann5432]

❤❤❤

[@francolli]

Freut mich, dass es dir gefällt, Udo. Für mich ist es etwas einfacher, einfach etwas Seltsames zu machen, ohne Untertitel hinzuzufügen. Seltsame Animationen überwinden die Sprachbarriere

[@udolehmann5432]

@@francolli 🫵👍

[@douglas9607]

R. Crumb stream of consciousness. Interesting art coming out of AI. Def Sub/Likie Thank you

[@francolli]

I'm a big crumb fan and have been since the 60s. This isn't one with crumb in mind but now you mention it it is similar

[@ManifestTheMusic]

Real cool. Nice job!

[@francolli]

Can't beat an occasional weird one. This channel is becoming known for the odd and weird at times

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

Yep.

[@francolli]

I'm just a sucker for monotone. Too much time with the SLR cameras back in the day, its kinda burned into my brain at this point

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

@@francolli brings focus.

[@markgohl2660]

WOW :)

[@francolli]

Lol. Welcome to the twilight zone Mark. Welcome aboard.

[@vasari9198]

Am I right in thinking this video was removed from KZbin just after it was uploaded?

[@francolli]

Yep, that was me, I uploaded it then realized it wasn't high enough resolution. I ran it through Topaz upscaler and increased the resolution to 4K, 3840 x 2160 and upped the frame rate to 60fps. That takes 90 minutes to upload to KZbin due to the insane size and quality. I wanted it 200fps or over but I think you tube would have melted down, lol. I have a version at 500 frames per second on my hard drive but its around 2.5gb for 6 minutes. You tube said no even though my brain said yes

[@vasari9198]

@@francolli I probably don’t really understand much of what goes into making and uploading your animations (or even much of what you’ve written here!) but I am definitely interested in learning how the strange sausage is prepared; do you think you might ever do a behind the-scenes video?

[@francolli]

@@vasari9198 I can go one better. If you go here deforum.studio/ you can check out mine and a lot of other animations being produced in real time. You can go back through the archive and will probably recognise bits of animation that went into my previous animations. Its a subscription service but you can still look around to see what is going on