Space-Themed AI Art

[sanman]

Anybody seen/made anything noteworthy and worth sharing?


Kudos to the fellow who made these, btw


Name: Twin Ion Engine starfighter
Manufacturer: Sienar Fleet Systems






Name: All Terrain Armored Transport
Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards









Name: Lambda Class T-4 Shuttle
Manufacturer: Sienar Fleet Systems






Name: Millennium Falcon (modified YT-1300 light freighter)
Manufacturer: Corellian Engineering Corporation

[catdlr]

Yes, he's prolific in AI-generated videos, although he has recently created them (previously, he had only created travel videos). Here are some other SW-related videos, but I might encourage others to view some of his other AI creations. He must be good at prompting.  His scenes are just short enough not to let your eye note some weirdness in the detail.

Thanks for creating this thread, sanman; it will likely generate a lot of other Space-Related AI video posts.

Star Wars related:













Although not space-related, and it has a very low view count, I think this is very entertaining: Travels in the suitcase.

[lamontagne]

Testing in atmosphere, eh?  The poor eardrums of those standing by...

[sanman]

Testing in atmosphere, eh?  The poor eardrums of those standing by...

I wish they'd showed it zipping by faster in that final flight clip, instead of it slowing down as the camera panning stops. Generative AI has been known to distort motion like that.

Also, in the AT-AT video posted by catdlr, I wish they didn't show the workers wearing modern contemporary clothing from our world, and instead showed them wearing clothes more suitable to the imperials from Star Wars.

(Yeah, I know it's nitpicky on output that's otherwise so neat, but if you're going to spend all that effort, then these little details matter.)

[catdlr]

Testing in atmosphere, eh?  The poor eardrums of those standing by...

I wish they'd showed it zipping by faster in that final flight clip, instead of it slowing down as the camera panning stops. Generative AI has been known to distort motion like that.

Also, in the AT-AT video posted by catdlr, I wish they didn't show the workers wearing modern contemporary clothing from our world, and instead showed them wearing clothes more suitable to the imperials from Star Wars.

(Yeah, I know it's nitpicky on output that's otherwise so neat, but if you're going to spend all that effort, then these little details matter.)

The more detailed and precise the AI prompt, the better the generated video will be. It's more about developing AI prompt writing skills than CGI/VFX skills to achieve the same results.  ILM is exploring this as a means to reduce the cost of Effects.

Jump to 10:15 to see some examples.

[catdlr]

And then on the other extreme, there are these AI-generated Star Wars-themed videos:

[sanman]

The more detailed and precise the AI prompt, the better the generated video will be. It's more about developing AI prompt writing skills than CGI/VFX skills to achieve the same results.  ILM is exploring this as a means to reduce the cost of Effects.

Remember that these days you can do iterative prompting, to progressively build up / modify an image. This requires a state buffer to hold the intermediate product, and isn't typically available on free tiers of AI image generation services, but is increasingly available for paid subscription tiers.

[catdlr]

The more detailed and precise the AI prompt, the better the generated video will be. It's more about developing AI prompt writing skills than CGI/VFX skills to achieve the same results.  ILM is exploring this as a means to reduce the cost of Effects.

Remember that these days you can do iterative prompting, to progressively build up / modify an image. This requires a state buffer to hold the intermediate product, and isn't typically available on free tiers of AI image generation services, but is increasingly available for paid subscription tiers.

Maybe this will assist with that issue?

[catdlr]

Some easy music set in an AI-generated space.  As you mentioned above, a set of individual AI-prompted video segments is edited together with no meaning or coherence.

Snowfall Rebellion: Across Frozen Worlds - Sci Fi music & AI video

[sanman]

Just doing a quick riff off headlines, playing with Grok, but finding it to be less capable on image generation

Notice the obvious distortion in the arm, for example
(it used to be that explicit prompting, including negative prompting, was required to suppress such distortions, but nowadays automatic handling of such things is supposed to be standard fare - tho obviously still not in Grok's case)





So I took the insignia for the Crew-1 flight

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/spacex-crew-1-official-crew-insignia/




And fed it to some generic online i2i site, and made this:





Just a riff off current headlines and dragon politics in Game of Thrones

[sanman]

Haha, I really need to learn how to do this:





I'd already tried to do Destination Moon (as an altered static image, not animation) but ran into issues (and ran out of free credits)

[sanman]

Comedy video of post-BattleOfYavin/StarWars jokes which is apparently AI-generated, as per user catdlr and others




I'm really stunned that this stuff can be AI-generated and turn out looking so realistic. It's downright spooky. This will force a rearrangement of entire industries. I guess a lot of actors and models could be put out of work. Does anybody know what tools exist to detect counterfeit videos from AI?

[sanman]

Here's one I made using ChatGPT, but for free tier you're typically put in queue, and things take a long time to generate. Not the best way if you're trying to experiment or iterate. It didn't even render the Starship's actuated fin-flaps, nor did it do Starship & Cybertruck at proper scale. Also the Cybertruck's hood looks distorted.

[sanman]

If others hadn't told me it was AI, then I'd have never known

[catdlr]

If others hadn't told me it was AI, then I'd have never known

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSFk6odrkw0

Yes, they are, and they are comparable to a set of AI videos concerning a specific Bigfoot character.

https://www.youtube.com/@AWorldAccordingToAI

[sanman]

If others hadn't told me it was AI, then I'd have never known

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSFk6odrkw0

Yes, they are, and they are comparable to a set of AI videos concerning a specific Bigfoot character.

https://www.youtube.com/@AWorldAccordingToAI

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This is insane. At this rate, what will we even need actors and film production artists for? Imagine the exposure level of their industry to this kind of disruptive change.

I once again mention AUCvS2N   (Area Under Curve vs Signal To Noise)
By AUC, I mean that the total output will increase because of this change lowering the bar to participation/production.
However, with any Tom-Dick-Harry now trying to be George Lucas or Steven Spielberg, then it means a lot of garbage will be produced, so lower Signal-to-Noise.

We're going to need more curation and vetting of content produced, because most ordinary people won't want to wade thru piles of junk just to find the gems worth watching.

(Maybe I should copy this post into the Death-of-Science-Fiction thread for more appropriate topical discussion)

[sanman]

This reminds me of these nerdy-witty comics like XKCD which combine witty dialogue lines with simple barebones low-effort drawing -- except now it's possible to turn your barebones low effort into sophisticated visuals, courtesy of AI, which takes care of all the heavy lifting to generate the video part. All that really needs to be supplied are again the right witty dialogue lines.

[catdlr]

Now we have both Bigfoot and Stormtroopers.  It's getting out of Hand.

[sanman]

Now we have both Bigfoot and Stormtroopers.  It's getting out of Hand.

Bigfoot? Gorilla? Never heard of Wookies?

[catdlr]

Now we have both Bigfoot and Stormtroopers.  It's getting out of Hand.

Bigfoot? Gorilla? Never heard of Wookies?

Although this may fall outside the primary subject matter, I am indeed familiar with them. The Wampa would serve as a superior candidate than Bigfoot (if this is only Star Wars canon). My discussion centers on the content curator's blending of Bigfoot with Star Wars and his funny amalgamation of characters in his recent videos. My comment was made in relation to the Nemoidians' remark at the outset of Episode I, which seems to have gone unnoticed by you.