Lively N Xingtao at the Side Theater Parking Lot A.I. Slops 002

 

Got some more A.I. slops on my Concept Art. It's kind of a train wreck.

 My original is HERE:

 

OK... let's dump the rest HERE:

 

Movie Theater AI Slops

 Since I tend to mess around in SUNO A.I., which is frequently frustrating & infuriating, I'll sometimes try to come up with various AI generated images to go with the tracks. A lot of this is experimental for me, and I treat it similarly to clip-art, thumbnails, rough drafts, concept work/art. But, all of these things become A.I. slop at some point. 

Here's the Suno Playlist for the O.C. Chinese Dragons.  

 My Suno Profile is HERE.

 

Currently, we're about to prepare for a Polar Vortex, which is a kind of winter super storm.  

I'd been struggling with Suno to get certain music tracks/songs to turn out right, and this can sometimes, or often times, happen. My main love interest for my character, Lively, is this guy Ao Xingtao. 

So, I realized I had a playlist for JUST my Chinese Dragons characters,  which includes both Ao Xingtao & Ao Qingfeng. Ao Qingfeng is her totem spirit dragon, but Xingtao is a different category, and a much lower rung status that Qingfeng, whom is an Arhat. But, Xingtao is a much lower level dragon, and being, incarnated into a human body, but he can shapeshift. Qingfeng generally has no steady formed body which needs to be maintained, but can manifest a visual form, and/or a physical form at will, which can phase in & out of existence at will. While in a physical form he can experience physical feelings, including pain, pleasure, sensation, qualia, etc. But, generally doesn't do this. He also can shape shift, appear as different forms, genders, etc. Qingfeng avoids a human form, not because he has a distaste for humans, on the contrary, he likes humans very much, however, since he's more oriented as male, and thus "yang", he views becoming a human male form would potentially cause him to be prone to some out of control misbehaviors, such as over-eating, lust, laziness, impulsiveness, neglect, etc. For this reason, he prefers to stay in his Chinese Dragon form, to better service his beautiful young pupil, Lively.

 

 

Anyways, I came up with some A.I. slops, and I also revisited an old rough sketch I did, whcih I started slapping some color into... it's not finished, tho' and too late at night to work on.  

 

 

 

Macross Inspiration

I don't know what inspired you the most. But, yes, I am incredibly inspired by the Old Disney fairy-tales, and American Comics & SciFi, But, Macross Plus is so lovely.!

I know this is a blog about my OC, Lively, but there's so much meaningfulness to this film.
Recently, I came across a review in which someone claimed that whole reason for making the Macross Plus project was kind of like a "middle finger" to the production of "Macross 2". Allegedly, the creator saw what a piece of trite crap it was and became motivated to create something of high quality, like a masterpiece. Altho' people in the 20th century would utterly laugh at the idea of anything Anime as being a masterpiece, but this one is just a cut above.

But, this guy explained that's WHY there's a film version and a Mini-series version, as well as an "International Version" (AKA the English language version).

This doesn't fall too far out of line with some Japanese personalities, whom value how they are persevered to others, or have an honor/shame culture. I lived in China several times, so the idea that a Chinese person would be bothered by loosing face with his/her art or creation is quite a real thing, so for a Japanese artist to have a reaction like that, and they're considered even more staunch than in China, it does sound believable.

Allegedly, the mini-series version was to show how the creator REALLY wanted his vision portrayed, even with a simple story in a series style. Then, re-cut & even some audio re-recorded in the Film version with different music.

When you watch either the film versions or the mini-series versions (and I've seen several versions of them) it truly does have a cinematic look & feel. They really took their time on this with gorgeous story board layouts, and the use of colors. The cinematic detail is epic.

They really did lots of homework & research on creating it. They studied photography compositions, and mimicking lenses like wide angle & fish-eye. The background pans are incredible, and use of light. The colors are incredible. 

This film also came up with the virtual idol concept (Sharron Apple) which literally inspired "Vocaloid" which is a singing computer program. The Vocaloid creator allegedly came up with it in 2000 when inspired by the 90s film.



This film has inspired quite a number of other things, so I've heard. It was also cutting edge in it's day in it's use of blending 2D + 3D. And Macross/Robotech was ground breaking for it's 1st interracial cartoon marriage on TV, as well as several other things the fans proudly point out.

Compared to Macross 2, which is utter crap, this is leaps & bounds above. So many folks love Akira, but for me, this is just SO MUCH more above & beyond.

Macross & Robotech are known for their integration of music, like Min Mei. But, this is just so different. It also integrated the sounds & feel of the 1990s, including New Age sound, techno, and pop music. There's a track that sounds similar to George Michael. Or the slow ballad "Voices" which is so very very 90s.

Anyways, there's a new box set, that's ONLY available in Japan (but if u can afford it you COULD possibly get one online, somewhere, IF u can even find one for sale).

I wish "Macross Frontier" was available as well. Because that was excellent as well.


Here's some lovely fan art I found:



Macross Plus Memories by ChristianKaw on deviantART



Sharon Apple of Macross Plus the movie .fancel. by escafan on deviantART



Sharon Apple - Macross Plus by yayacosplay on deviantART

Anyways... my New Year's resolution was to watch more Sc-Fi. And, I've done lots of that.
Start Trek, Macross, and several TV shows like Terra Nova, The 4400, and Continuum.