Muybridge Derby
Muybridge Derby is an AI-assisted animation that transforms Eadweard Muybridge's historical animal locomotion photographs into a whimsical derby narrative. Find out how I made this piece on Medium here.
Showings:
Upcoming:
French Riviera Film Festival, May 17-18, 2024, at the Eden Hotel, 133 Rue d'Antibes, Cannes, France
Past:
Austin Micro Film Festival, February 24, 2024, at the Southwest Theaters Lake Creek, Austin, TX
The Next Big Thing, August 5 to September 30, 2023, at the Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo, CA
Cinephiles Choice Awards, August 10, 2023, Canhotinho, Brazil
Georgia Comedy Film Festival, November 7, 2023, at the Plaza Theater, 1049 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA
Goyang Moving Image Festival, November 11-12, 2023, at the Goyang Oullim Cinema and Goyang Kateree Hotel X Monoplex, respectively, in Goyang, South Korea
Oregon Short Film Festival, November 12, 2023, at the Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, OR
Awards and Recognition:
Finalist, WaveForms, Boston Cyberarts, Mugar Omni Theater at the Museum of Science, Boston, MA
Official Selection, Cinephiles Choice Awards, Canhotinho, Brazil
Winner, Second Place, in The Next Big Thin 2023, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA
Winner, Best Super-short Film, Goyang Moving Image Festival, Goyang, South Korea
Winner, Best Animated Comedy Film, Georgia Comedy Film Festival, Atlanta, GA
Winner, Best Animated Comedy Film, Oregon Short Film Festiva, Portland, OR
Finalist, Austin Micro Film Festival, Austin, TX
Honorable Mention, LA Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Finalist, French Riviera Film Festival, Cannes, France
Muybridge Derby showcases a racehorse, a cat, a buffalo, an elephant, and an ostrich in motion, employing Midjourney for reference frames and RunwayML Gen-1 for stylistic transformation. This achieves a fusion of vintage photography and contemporary digital art aesthetics. The ostrich wins, and the piece concludes with an original brass band and drumline score, composed with the help of a fine-tuned version of OpenAI's GPT-3 that plays over the end credits.