Fragile Human

Every once in a while, I have with a project that I feel comfortable calling a "milestone project". I mean that in the sense that it's a project that requires nearly all of my skills, and serves as a very succinct and unified assessment of those skills.

Fragile Human is quite special to me as it is one such project.

For this project, I used Stable Diffusion, Paint.NET, After Effects, Touchdesigner, and Premiere Pro, in that order.

Then, an upscale with waifu2x.

First, the output from Stable Diffusion, and an inpaint to isolate the background.

Then, manual editing within Paint.NET to remove the background from the foreground layer and adjust the background to look better.

Once in After Effects, many, many looping wiggles on puppet pins.

Then into Touchdesigner for post-processing.

Various stages in the network shown at the top.

The red coloration gets applied dynamically based on an external input, entering the network here as UDPClient.

That's a part of a different project that's a work in progress, but it being called UDPClient should be a good enough hint to make you interested.

Two versions were bounced out:
one regular, and another with tweaked zoom values to go wider.

Oh, and also the text.

And lastly, into Premiere Pro for the final cut.