I used a range of AI programs and systems to create the visuals. Dall-E, stable diffusion, vqgan, midjourney and others. I upscaled most footage with Topaz Video AI and Flowframes. My opinions on AI visuals have changed quite a bit after the video came out, if I were to do the video again I would've created custom databases with copyright free visual works, and based the AI systems on those. To not infringe on the work of actual artists.
Saw her performing for the first time in January this year in Berghain. It was one of the best things I've ever seen. The sounds, the light, the performance, the noise. Scary, mesmerizing, exciting. Deeply moving.
Regarding Stu being an extreme workaholic that never takes a break, he himself has said he actually sees recording music *as the break* lmao, in his mind the actual job is to be touring and playing live shows all around the world, and tge recording and experimenting with music *is the vacation* What a goddamn crazy dude
Look on any vinyl retailer site selling Hellfire, they have this in the description: "Artwork was created by David Rudnick (who's done the artwork for all previous black midi albums as well), using AI technology into which he fed lyrics from the album to generate imagery which was then printed, cut up and reconfigured into a detailed and complex collage. " Unfortunately lost the research file for this project, I can't remember where this quote originates from.
i'm glad you appreciate the transition between sugar/tzu and eat men eat as much as i do! i was smiling ear to ear when i first heard it. absolute perfection. excellent video btw! this is so insanely slept on that it's criminal
wow this is incredible!! i adore this album and always hoped someone would make a video essay about it, thankfully my recommended showed me this today :)
Thanks for this awesome video! Just saw them play last week for the 10 year anniversary of an awesome wave, one of my all time favorite albums! I would say the drums in "Breezeblocks" played a huge part in alt j becoming my favorite band. Also the drums on "Something good" are awesome. Buffalo is one of my favorite songs, it could easily fit in an awesome wave. I have seen this band live 4 times and they are always so great! Im excited to see them a 5th time 😅
I followed a lot of guides, it has a bit of a learning curve but nothing too crazy. I did spend well over 100+ hours to render all these shots, it's very time consuming.
I can definitely understand that, believe me. I was expecting more people to say this to be honest. I did write it in a way that it could be listened to in the background, without all the visuals. So if you still want to experience the video you can do that if you want to! I always try to make my videos accessible, but for me the style of a video is always more important than accessibility. It's a hard balance to keep for me, the next video I'm working on already has more of a focus on that balance.
Man, 2022 really got some great albums, personally my favorite was ants from up there, it's is the first album I've listen and I immediately thought it was a classic, and an album I really liked, but people kinda of slept on it it was the nüfer yanya one,
