Can you imagine what Mexico City would look like with the filter of a cyberpunk-style movie? Recently, the creator of videos and expert in aerial cinematography, Tarsicio Sañudo, used artificial intelligence to bring this dystopian scenario to life.
And we are not lying when we tell you that the result is truly impressive.
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So the question is… how was this video made? Is it fully created with artificial intelligence tools? how long did it take? Where did the idea come from?
A video processed by artificial intelligence
First thing’s first. Tarsicio Sañudo is an expert in the production of aerial videos and cinematographic content. with the help of the latest drone technology. In fact he is the founder of Postandflya company dedicated to the production of aerial videos and photographs.
Since we had many questions about the job behind this cyberpunk-style CDMX video, we had a coffee with him and here we will tell you what we talked about. Before continuing take a look.
Tarcisio explains that since last year, when the artificial intelligence boom exploded, he started working with Midjourney and ChatGPT to explore new tools and start doing interesting things.
“I’ve been making videos of Mexico with drones for 10 years now and I wanted to find a new way to process the shots and make a video with this cyber punk style.”.
Following the path of this idea, he found Khyber, a video generation artificial intelligence platform. The expert affirms that the idea of cyberpunk seems quite interesting to him due to all the visual matter that it implies: the neon colors, the night shots, the contrasting tones of the city, etc.
He already had the aerial shots of Mexico City, for several years, so when he found the artificial intelligence tool to process the shots, he began to work on it.
“This is a first approach to video and image processing with artificial intelligence, which obviously yields a result that is impressive but it is only the beginning. There are a thousand things that can be done with these tools“, he says.
Although there are still many bumps in the processing, such as the way it renders the sky and so on, the alternative it offers to transform and process the shots is very interesting. Tarcisio explains that with this they could even create different worlds, universes and much more complex fantasy things that do not exist.
And here is the other issue: in addition to what artificial intelligence can materialize, this type of tool It means simplifying processes.
Suppose we want to create a video, a scene or a movie in a universe that does not exist: a lot of work is needed in animation, to give a simple example.
“I have been developing a universe for some time now, a story that I began to tell my daughters, like stories at night, and it evolved. I’m writing it with the help of ChatGPT for writing… with these tools I could get into the whole process and I could generate very interesting things. They help me tell stories and I see it out there, it caught my attention to diversify my products“.
And it is that for this video ChatGPT also intervened. The expert explains that he asked for a code, with commands, which the other platform then used to process a real shot. What’s more, the credits also appear as a code created by an AI But…
Will it be then that artificial intelligences will end up doing all the work?
One of the most interesting points of the conversation is related to the work that artificial intelligences do, what they can already do and what they will be able to do in the future.
Although there is a concern that it will get out of control, as humanity, it is also a huge opportunity to create new things that a few years ago would have involved years of work and a lot of money.
He affirms that the idea that the digital can also be taken into account as art, for example, is barely being accepted and explored by society. But if we see it from the point of view of possibilities, the doors of the universe open.
“It is true that we are going to have to adapt and get into new things, but it is precisely these opportunities and challenges that are very interesting. I will continue to explore and test to offer new products“… Would you like to try it? Tarcisio even created a tutorial with the watchword of how he did all the work.
