Cannes 2022 Winner Ai Animated short “The Crow“ Making of

Original footage in comparison with final result of the Cannes 2022 Winner Ai Animated short “The Crow“ by Pioneering computer artist Glenn Marshall AI project won the Jury Award at Cannes Short Film Festival. ‘The Crow’ is a fascinating and thought-provoking glimpse into what’s ahead. An important milestone on the path to a new era of content production. found inspiration in a wonderful viral choreography short film from 2012, PAINTED, and used frames of the human dancer, Dorotea Saykaly, as image reference input in a neural network called CLIP from OpenAI. The result? A beautiful short film where each frame of the human dancer is interpreted by the AI as “a painting of a crow in a desolate landscape.” It’s still early days, but imagine the incredible potential when voice-controlled text-to-video AIs become mainstream. Simply describe what you want to see and have it immidiately appear. … and then consider the potential when you apply this technology to 3D environments. Instant immersive world-creation only limited by our imagination. A new era of human creativity on the horizon. Original dance video project Written & directed: @ / Choreography & dance: dorosay@ / The first in a trilogy (check out the sequel, “Brief Candle“, at of screendance films about our tug-of-war with wilderness. Here we explore a building’s decay. The choreography and original score are both in decrescendo to illustrate the building’s retreat from the physical world, and Nature’s advance on it. Awarded Best Dance Film at the 2012 Fastnet Short Film Festival, and nominated for Best of Festival and Best Original Music. Official Selection: - Dance Camera West 2012 - FIVC 2.0 ( Tour selection) - Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema - Festival de Film de Lanaudiere - NSI Short Film Festival - Oklahoma Dance Film Festival - Exground Filmfest - Pop-up Film Festival - Dance on Camera Festival 2013 ( Tour selection) - VI São Carlos Videodance Festival - Dance Camera Istanbul - Dance Camera Festival 2013 ( Tour selection) - Cinedans 2013 - FIFA 2013 - Agite y Sirva 2013 - Dance Moments 2013 - Tiny Dance Film Festival 2013 - Athens Video Dance Project 2014 - Dancing Bravo! MOCA Video, Taiwan, 2014 - Intervening Domain: International Dance Video Exhibition, Taiwan, 2014 - InShadow - International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies 2015 Directed and Created by Duncan McDowall - Choreographed and Performed by Dorotea Saykaly - Cinematography by Christophe Collette Original Score by Simon Marcheterre Costume Design by Carla Romagnoli () Edited by Sebastien Delporte Produced by Sach Baylin-Stern Produced with a grant awarded by BravoFACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) - a division of Bell Media Inc. - THE CROW AI interpretation : a haunting and compelling piece that follows the crow through its brief dance in a landscape of post-apocalyptic barrenness, to its inevitable demise. Winner - Prix Ars Electronica (Honory Mention) Winner (Best Short Short) - Cannes Short Film Festival The Lumen Prize - current longlist Official Selection - Bolton International Film Festival Official Selection - Cleveland International Film Festival Official Selection - GalwayFilm Festival Director: Glenn Marshall Producer: Michael O’Neill Based on the short film ’Painted’ by Duncan McDowall and Dorotea Saykaly Music (Gnossienne No.3 by Erik Satie) Arranged and Performed by Romi Kopelman () AI Code source Pytii Colab Notebook (sportsracer48) Links to Twitter, Instagram and NFTs