Alien Invasion

The project was done to show the essential role of a high quality image generator to create consistently themed images and preliminary storyboarding.

ArtSpace.ai for image creation and preliminary story boarding
Minimax Hailuo for image to video generation
ElevenLabs for Sound Effects Creation
Filmora for final editing

In the case of this project, there was not a story or idea in advance.

This was one of the many times where inspiration for the story came as the creative process went along.

This started as an experiment with creating cute fuzzy aliens, and the more images were created, the more the story started to build.

Any image generator that delivers the results you want will work, but here we used ArtSpace to take advantage of their infinite canvas that allows us to arrange the images to play with storyboard ideas.

Often, I still don't have a full story after generating the images.

But I run the images through an image to video platform - in this case, Minimax Hailuo, and as the creatures began to move around and develop personalities, the story began to form.

This often led to going back to Artspace to generate new still images to reflect the evolving ideas, then bringing them into Hailuo, and animating them.

At the end of the process, you end up with all the video footage you need.

These videos were centered around cute fuzzy aliens, and there wasn't any stock media that gave me what I wanted.

I certainly could have voiced the sounds myself, but I was keen to see what AI could generate.

I used Elevenlabs to create numerous files of alien creatures and chose those that fit the best.

There were also numerous space craft and explosion sounds that needed to be created as well.