AI Animation

Moss and I started recording Locomotive and Set the Sail after releasing Morning After through CD Baby, and that was the time when I just discovered Midjourney.  I had determined that Midjourney was not good for handling text because even if I told it not to change the text, it still would.  Then I started playing with the animation function.  Even though we had not started recording Wicked Waste yet, I still was working on the artwork and had the album cover that ChatGPT had created, and brought it into Midjourney to animate it:

Now we had finished Set the Sail, so I wanted to create some animations for YouTube Shorts... word on the street was that YouTube Shorts was the key to getting recognized by the algorithm, and I got the idea of an Elven King and Queen dancing.  It took multiple attempts to get the look that I wanted, their wardrobe and jewelry and finally I got this image:

I animated the longest animation that Midjourney would allow, searching Google for ballroom dances and trying to prompt Midjourney to perform specific moves. Midjourney would make four versions of a few seconds and I would choose the best one and animate the next few seconds until I reached the maximum time allowed. After I finally was happy with the results in Midjourney, I brought it into DaVinci Resolve for video editing and just made multiple copies with transitions to get it to the length that I wanted for the Set the Sail YouTube Short.

At that time I really got into the whole Elven King and Queen thing and made another one for Locomotive.  Now Midjourney is very artistic, but far from perfect... keep a close eye on the king's shoes LOL.  Listen for Jojo's voice saying "GUITAR" right before my guitar solo:

During this time I also animated our EP Album Cover and added the guitar solo from Locomotive as well:

When we finished recording Can't Stop the Clock I made this woman warrior in front of a jewel encrusted portal to another dimension: