We teamed up with fashion designer Elena Velez and director C Prinz to craft Midwestern landscapes using experimental new AI tools for the FW23 film debuting on SHOWstudio. The film was shown at Elena’s FW23 show in a multiscreen installation as a preamble to the runway.
Our process began with a collaborative moodboarding session, defining the visual vibe and creating collages to layout elements, textures, and composition. We then generated a myriad of options using an img2img dataset, and utilized the Stability Photoshop plugin with StableDiffusion and Dalle2 for image blending. The images were upscaled using Gigapixel from the Topaz suite, and Automatic1111's depth map extension was used to create a 2.5D effect. To bring everything together, the assets were brought into 3D compositions by INCworks Studio enriched by their proprietary tools for procedurally generated details like telephone wires, roads, and fog.