Welcome to Latent Land

a StoryMe short film on Augmented Imagination, combining storytelling, filmmaking, animation and AI.

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagine encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein

In the past few months, here at StoryMe we have seen amazing new stories and mediums of thought unfold from AI's Latent Space. Video-2-video, text-2-video, NERFs, AnimateDiff... when it comes to tools to express ourselves, we couldn't have been more spoiled.

But as much as we've been enjoying experimenting with synthetic storytelling through all these fantastic tools, we did feel the Generative AI space needed a narrative built around a tangible, human core instead of the other way around. This is why we set out to create "Welcome to Latent Land", an homage to both human creativity and the capabilities of artificial intelligence.

We've always seen AI as a calculator for the creative mind, and thanks to tools like Midjourney, Runway, WarpFusion, Kaiber, ... we have been able to express ideas that have been in our collective minds for years. And while the Generative Video AI tools used in this video may not be perfect yet, the creative process did give us a glimpse of the future of video content and storytelling.

Before AI, the creative output was often the end of the creative process. Now, it's just the beginning, marking a profound shift in how content will be produced going forward.

Yet, the impact of Generative AI on our industry goes further than just giving us new tools to play with. Its disruption is unparalleled, reshaping the very nature and workflows of art directors, copywriters, motion designers, and 3D artists.

Cast

Lenka / Marleen Verschroeven

Crew

Creative Director / Tone De Cooman

AI Captain / Vince Buyssens

Art Director / Koen De Gussem

Art Director / Aäron Beyers

Script / Kobe Viaene

Executive producer / Tatijana Culumarevic

Producer / Eline De Moor

Production / Emma Keymeulen

Set Production / Emiel Gallet

DOP / Matthias Van Sele

1ste AC / Evert Rogiers

Props & Grip / Wino Hoogerwijs

Make up artist / Joy Brabant

Edit / Ibram Uytterschaut

Animation & Compositing / Bavo Croes

3D animator / Frederik Mertens

Sound Design / Thomas Lambrechts

Studio

Moose-Stache

Thanks To

Louis Gheyssens

Thierry Willer

Dimitri Van Hoe

AI Tools

Midjourney

Warpfusion

Kaiber

Runway

Stable Diffusion

Evenlabs

ChatGPT

AnimateDiff

Pikalabs

Adobe Firefly

Topaz Labs

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All AI elements in this film (prompted, curated, and tweaked by humans) will most likely be outdated by the time of its launch.
Creators, consider this your canvas to augment your imagination and let your creativity flourish; feel free to update your version.

This license requires that reusers give credit to the original creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for noncommercial purposes only. If others modify or adapt the material, they must license the modified material under identical terms.

Behind The Scenes video / Blueprint for an AI Manifesto: storyme.com/welcome-to-latent-land

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