Pixel Man
Introduction
For this project, our assignment was to generate a 2-minute video entirely by using different AI models to generate stills and video. We were able to choose a genre of video and do a spin on it by using AI.
When Queenie, Chris, and I met up to brainstorm, we knew we wanted to do something with a comedic tone. We went back and forth, using ChatGPT to generate different stories to see how interesting we could make it. The AI’s stories weren’t as interesting as we thought, but while we were talking, Queenie said, “What if we Rick Roll the class?” and all three of us were on board.
Generation + Editing
We started to create our storyboard based on the previous story generated by ChatGPT, as well as the Rick Roll. AI had created a main character for us, “Pixel Man”. We passed a couple of prompts through Stable Diffusion to generate this image:
We then passed two music videos of “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley– one animated and one real– through Runway ML to get different variations of the Rick Roll. We came up with this list and then asked ChatGPT to generate even more themes along with prompts for Runway.
The last piece was the Avatar: The Last Airbender intro. We wanted to stick with Pixel Man, so we decided to cut up the intro and run it through Runway to make everything look pixelated.
Final Product