August 2, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
At SIGGRAPH 2024, Autodesk unveiled new AI-powered tools aimed at enhancing creative workflows for artists and producers. Key announcements include the Flow Generative Scheduling for efficient production planning and new AI capabilities in Maya and Flame. These innovations are designed...
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July 22, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the challenges I had learning music theory at the University of Miami was my minimal keyboard skills preventing me from hearing the chords and scales that I was learning about. I...
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By: Stephen Toback
AI does such a great job using vision to read and solve complex math problems, surely it could convert sheet music to MIDI. Well, it can't and don't call me Shirley. ChatGPT One interesting thing about ChatGPT, is that each...
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July 21, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I've been thinking about and playing around with a lot of AI tools since the onslaught of this new overwhelming technology. So many tools like suno.com are mind blowing - creating fully formed music around a text prompt and other...
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June 5, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I downloaded the beta of Photoshop so I could test their new Firefly 3 engine. I gave it this prompt, "Please create a very detailed image in the style of Disney animation from the 1940s of a brave hero running...
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May 7, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I gave Tengr a try and while I was really liking its interface, ultimately, it didn't perform as expected. You get 100 drawings a day for free so worth playing around with a bit more.
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May 3, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I first started experimenting with AI generated music with Suno back in March. I created this heavy metal banger with this prompt: It truly blew my mind: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/G00IAA/ It created the lyrics and all the music and vocals and even...
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October 30, 2023
By: Stephen Toback
[caption id="attachment_4678" align="alignnone" width="601"] Dall-e 3/Bing Image Creation - Prompt: Draw me a picture in a classical Italian style of a scribe working at a computer with a quill pen in a city that would appear in ancient Rome[/caption] I...
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October 13, 2023
By: Stephen Toback
This is something that I've been thinking about even before AI rose to the forefront of everyone's mind. Boords offers a comprehensive solution for storyboard creation, designed to streamline the process. It boasts a range of tools, including an AI...
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By: Stephen Toback
As a follow up to my testing of https://labs.heygen.com/video-translate (Steve In Italiano, DDMC) I went back to Eleven Labs which I had tested previously for it's incredible voice cloning ability since Heygen doesn't support Chinese (yet). What I found most...
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