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Jim Nealon's avatar

"Come, my friends, for none ignore us,

Sing and chant a glad Greek chorus!

My Muse from chariot descend;

Glad instuments and vouces lend!"

-- Lord Byron's reaction, most likely, to being cast into song. All in tastefully ebullient and outrageous style.

Sean Patterson's avatar

And a 100 million thots cried out in rage.

ticotexas's avatar

She is the real deal. I really enjoyed the poem, the video and the song. I was surprised how many tools it takes. Can you share an estimate how many hours and/or dollars it takes approximately?

Vox Day's avatar

If you don't count the music, which I don't because I wrote that more than a year ago and I'm always writing stuff anyhow, I'd estimate about 20 hours. The cost of this one was probably around $100. Girls Love Guitars was about $75, and Time Machine was probably $20.

Mile High Bear's avatar

Well, Vox your friend is a stunner. Lord Byron might well have used her as one of his muses had they shared the same era on Earth. This is a vast improvement over the last video, but Girls Love Guitars is an amazing song, too. That poem IS perfection. Song appropriately titled, SDL.

Gregory DeVore's avatar

The real girl in the picture is prettier then the A.I. version but I am not able to express in words the difference.

Jefferson Kim's avatar

Getting better and better. The best yet.

Kling Motion Control may solve the guitar fret action matching the music assuming you can live capture someone on the correct frets. Not sure if the lip sync capture is better but since you're doing just a younger version of yourself I suspect it may be able to better reflect exactly what you want if you live capture yourself doing it.

https://youtu.be/ehV7pk7aoWw?is=dtZhDkiqnXdYux8Y

Kling Motion Control combined with ElevenLabs voice replacement may very well be the key to recording convincing dialogues assuming you have some reliable people that can do the correct body motions and voice inflections.

https://youtu.be/wYgYCl30l7c?is=VDE2BVErMHocP04G

This may be the key to getting the actual shots you want every time though I haven't done the math on the costs.

Vox Day's avatar

Live capture isn't a problem, but I don't think it's worth it. I mean, half the live music videos don't show the band's musicians playing things properly. But if we're doing full-fledged movie productions, we'll have the budget for things like that.

Right now, I'm just experimenting.

Kiyosaki Bear's avatar

Great story and great technical breakdown between the two substacks! The oldest book in my library happens to be a Byron work. He clearly had an enchanting presence.

Snowyteller's avatar

Annoyingly close describes the current state of the tech.

Impressive describes your manipulation of it.

Byron's work, is as ever the magnetic model for a vampire's charm.

When you use fellows that look like Daft Punk, you don't need lipsync anymore though. That is, however quite limiting, and a beautiful robot woman...

Shining chrome hasn't quite the allure of flesh, in spite of what some desperate men might say.

Thinking on it, glowing neon eyes isn't a problem for robot characters either.