I have been smashing OpenArt lately as a sort of magic subsititue for Photoshop and quick scale photo edits. I never broke the back of Photoshop and could probably invest some time in the skills but Open AI's offering is pretty damn good and quite affordable when you consider how many credits you get. This is sort of replacing what they had with Dall-e 2 initially, but the toolkit is much more robust. The blend board stuff is REALLY good if you want to create wildly different elements from a single image. They incorporate the Flux model too https://openart.ai/home

OpenAI has launched today its flagship video generator, SORA. It's meant to be best in class, but we shall see. https://openai.com/index/sora/ Try it out for yourself folks! Edit: There is a massive influx of traffic right now and they are being deliberate about who they let use it. Be patient and come back again a few times. I'll be cracking it right open and giving you a breakdown as to what is good or bad about it. This video will be posted to this channel either today or tomorrow. I want you guys to feel that The Lost Futures will give you info on the most cutting edge synthographic methods as they break. I am part of about 20 different groups that I distill all the info from and give to you guys.

I am working on probably the most enormous campaign of my life right now for a New York agency. (Sorry I've been a little quiet but this is been consuming all my time and focus. Following tomorrow I'll be back on deck) But I thought I'd share with you some Keyframes that I developed using a Lora trained on my own face. I'm going to skill you guys up on how to do this technique. The Flux model blows everything out of the water. Those phone apps you get where they make an AI of your face are fisher price toys. This stuff is the real deal. We are living in a whole new reality my friends. Can't wait to share with you what I'm working on right now, it's the best piece of work I've ever made.

Ok, so for those who really want to see the machine room of my synthographic process, I invite you to have a casual look at my CivitAI creator page. Ask any questions you like and I will answer them in this thread. Extreme warning here: some of the stuff on this page is incredibly not-safe for work and not for the eyes of children so please ensure that you look at this in a safe environment. Also know that some of the material is quite disturbing - there's lots of demons and photorealistic convergences of all kinds of realities, theres blood, death, x-rated stuff - it's very explicit. So if you are spiritually sensitive please know that this is also a risky click. However, in terms of mechanics, you'll be able to click on each image and see what kind of Loras ive used and what weightings ive given each, you'll also be able to see what kind of prompts im entering. You will also see the sheer VOLUME of material I create. Synthography is very much about having a gamblers mentality, and spinning the wheel of fortune many times until the 'right' image appears. https://civitai.com/user/thelostfutures

G'day! I'm Luke Burton, founder of The Lost Futures, and welcome to my Skool page. I am an artist, composer, filmmaker and director/producer with 25 years experience in cross discipline. In my 'corpo' life, I have worked directly with Google, Kathmandu, Suntory, Nat Geo, Lonely Planet, World Nomads and many others across countless campaigns. In my 'underground' life I have been an artist and performer for many years and have done shows at Dark Mofo festival and countless shows across Australia. I currently do work with Awesome Soundwave, the live techno label owned by Carl Cox and Christopher Coe. The Lost Futures is my current, on-going art/film/music project but I am also using it as a vehicle to help educate, inspire and lead by example by showing my processes across all disciplines in real time. ---- Here, we’re diving into the deep end of creative chaos, from the wild techy stuff to the raw, real principles that keep it all grounded. Here’s what I’ll be serving up and a little about me: 🎨 Synthographic art My workflows and how to craft my signature Cyberdelic Hyperloops. Right now I reckon AI and its employment is some of the craziest shit you can imagine. It's controversial, everyone has an opinion, but I know one thing is for sure. There's no way I could make any of the work I do right now *without* AI. The process of psychologically interfacing with the machine system is part of the art in my view, and ill be going into great detail on this topic, and most importantly, show you how I make it all. 🎶 Sound wizardry Composition, synthesis, sound design, and all the sonic insanity you could imagine. Here I will be doing all kinds of breakdowns across the compositional processs - I am largely electronic but a lot of the principles apply to any genre. From gear tutorials to synthesis insights through to developing music language and the importance of building a musical pallete to draw from. 🎬 Editing & filmmaking Especially doco-making because real stories hit different.