Elevator In a Q&A interview, Elevator’s Graphic Designer and Photographer, Victoria Moreno shared details of the AI workshop designed by HXOUSE in collaboration with Open AI and Strangeloops Studios that she recently participated in.
What is your personal experience using AI?
I recently participated in an innovative 2 day AI workshop designed by HXOUSE in collaboration with Open AI and Strangeloops Studios where we experimented with AI softwares such as DALL-E 2 and Notch to create various AI art works and Visual Effects. The workshop was called “HXOUSE LABS Intelligent Machinery- Neural Artworks”.
Do you think AI has a place in the creative world? What impact will it have?
Absolutely! AI provides a new set of tools that help artists and art itself expand, such as features that allow you to create scenes/worlds around and outside of already famous artworks.
I personally believe that there will always be a place and appreciation for traditional art and AI art will never pose a threat (and vice versa). Each brings about its own essence, style, culture, and world. Hand-drawn animation is still highly appreciated for its stylistic atmosphere, human essence it provides along with the application of hand-drawn work (as we can see with Studio Ghibli Films).
The introduction of digital CGI/AI animation, allows a new genre of animation to be created, that expands on how we can perceive certain characters, worlds, and concepts. Seen with PIXAR, we are introduced to an unimaginable 2.5D-3D world of animation with hyper-realistic details, movements, and features. When you look at many of DALL-E’s renderings, the images produced, although they look extremely realistic, each one has a touch to them that indicates that they have been created by something “not entirely human”. With the inorganic shapes, patterns, and outlines seen on some, they become a sort of a digital hyper surreal style that in itself is its own artistic genre with each being completely unique.
