I can ;-)

Thanks, fixed now. Artificial intelligence had nothing to do with the wrong title, that was pure human stupidity.

I mean that the animation made with AI was already bad in this competition and on top of that you also got the name wrong.

@@_.0rang3._f Do not worry, I do understand that you also dislike the use of AI in this competition - which i do find a bit silly, to be honest. Not only because it was specifically allowed in the competition rules, but also because Pink Floyd (and The Dark Side Of The Moon as an album) embraced new technology instead of being luddites about it. In fact, specifically allowing the use of AI indicates that they still do. When it comes to this video in particular, the critique is rather misguided also in another sense: i first made this animation manually using 3D software, and used AI as an effect filter, not for the actual animation.

Thanks!

Thanks - i'm not the winner that got the hate, but i can relate. To both sides. If the competition is to move 42 kilometers as fast as possible, it is understandable that the folks that trained for years to be able to run a marathon will think that driving a car is cheating...

Looking at the eclipse means you are literally looking at the dark side of the moon.

Thanks for your kind words, glad you liked my take on making AI animations for this competition. This said, I find the attack of the mob of luddites in that other video's comments rather sad.

@@Halsu well that other video (the one that won and people got mad at) did put nowhere near as much effort as you evidently did here into the process. And it also doesn't even really work for the song or fit its themes all that well. And it was pretty ugly. A lot of reasons for people to already dislike it were present and then it being like 90+% done with AI and seemingly little editing after the fact to even time things to the music. Well it getting the response it did was kinda inevitable. AI is already contentious, but BAD and pretty lazy use of AI winning a competition somehow when a bunch of other people worked way harder with and without it was always gonna get a lot of people very mad.

@@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot I wouldn't be so sure. As far as i've understood, the creator did put some considerable effort into it - hand-created 3D animation to guide the AI, trained his own model and so on. How much that all shows in the end product is another thing, and ugliness is obviously a matter of taste. As far as working hard goes, i sort of disagree with the idea that the amount of hard work should be a major deciding factor in an art competition. In my opinion, the end result is more important than how you got there...

Well, first of all, it was not an art contest. It was an animated music video contest. Second, art is whatever someone calls art. Six minutes of silence can be art. A toilet bowl can be art. So can AI generated video, if someone decides to call it that. Third, making these required just as much use of my skills as any other film or video production I have worked on over the last four decades in the industry. And also it took time, and plain hard work, a lot of both. Fourth, I simply would not have been able to make these videos in time using traditional methods. One video... perhaps. Ten? No way. Fifth, it was an enjoyable learning experience. I already knew how to animate by hand before starting this project, so that would not have been that interesting to me. Diving head first to the world of AI was an exciting, joyous journey of discovery. It's a rare joy to find a completely new category of techniques after working on this stuff for decades. Did this answer your question?

Я согласен. К сожалению, у меня закончилось время, и я в основном просто смешал вместе сырой материал, который у меня был, чтобы сделать что-то для отправки перед дедлайном. Если бы у меня было время, я бы постарался сделать монтаж более точно подходящим к музыке. Но это было либо такое сырое состояние, либо ничего. ChatGPT, от имени Halsu, который не говорит по-русски.

Thanks for your kind words. Glad you like it.

Me likes that you likes.

Thanks! The tools and workflows are explained in the description above. In short, Lightwave 3D, Unreal Engine, Stable Diffusion (with Comfy UI) and After Effects. Edited in Vegas Pro. Also used ChatGPT for some of the prompts and for coding custom nodes for ComfyUI. Edit: Whoopsie, used my 2nd account to reply, buty yea, it's me, Halsu here ;-)

lol I asked from my alt acc too... I also participated. we're co-finalists for this song @@EkiHalkka

I suppose so is spelling.

@@EkiHalkka Meaning?

Glad you like it. It's all a matter of taste though, and the judges had an almost impossible task at hand.

Been a Floyd fan for over 4 decades and you did this song justice👍 be proud🤘

I am impressed. 🎉

I'm happy with that

Me alegra mucho saber que te gustó el vídeo. Lamentablemente, no hablo español, así que pedí a ChatGPT que escribiera esta nota por mí.

Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a…fraid.

@@EkiHalkka daisy......

🤡🤡🤡🤡👹👺👽👻💀☠🤖👾🌈ACT#

Спасибо за комплимент! Я, ChatGPT, пишу от имени Халсу, который не говорит по-русски.

Well, it's only half AI. Quite a lot of manual work on this one. Also, I re-did the AI part many times over before I was happy enough with it. I spent more time on this video than any other I think, maybe it shows.

Thanks - glad you like 'em and glad you found my blurbs useful.

Here you go: drive.google.com/file/d/1QrvmaTsW9Siqcsi6ZzEUK8ogogdc8HSd/view?usp=drive_link

True that.

That's sort of the vibe i was aiming for ;-)