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Daniel Allison
• Aug 19
Recently, I've come to discover that there's an equal level of excitement and patience required to learn a new language.
As a creative in the motion design space, AI-generated assets are slowly becoming part of my day-to-day design process, whether it's brainstorming a new idea, fleshing out an existing one, or expanding on storyboard ideas.
AI is a tool, and every creative knows that a tool that's useful needs to be studied. You need to practise with it as much as you would with every other tool that's relevant to your creative process so it can help you produce the best results possible.
AI prompting is one of those skills that needs to be studied because the past couple of weeks have shown me that it is easier to pick up a new language on Duolingo than to give an AI a set of instructions and have it give you an excellent result.
No. That outcome usually arrives when you're almost burning through the last of your credits, the ones you spent your last month's salary on.
My goal this year with AI has been to break that uncanny valley barrier. I want people to look at my work and find it indistinguishable from real-life subjects. This means paying attention to every micro-gesture, expression, and piece of body language there is.
These are the languages I tend to infuse into the prompt box so that when something comes out the other end, it is at least impressive.
Like this little video below, where towards the end, the character on the sofa relaxes her hand onto one of the throw pillows.
Bellissima!
It's the little victories for me.
I know there's this whole debate online about how AI should feel like AI and shouldn't have to feel human. Otherwise, why use it, right?
Well, I'm of the opinion that pushing a tool to the very limits of its capabilities is the best proof that a tool truly has limits. And when it comes to AI, we've not even begun to scratch the surface yet.
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