Restart by Leow Xuan Ying Journal

Restart DA5004 Media Art Nexus Leow Xuan Ying U1822006E

Abstract In this ever changing, futuristic world, everything is possible.

Can we reverse climate change before it is too late?

Restart is a story about a desolated city where nature decides to regain its place in the world.

Mood Board - Colors and Concept

Blade runner 2049 Futuristic Sci-Fi World with flying cars, holograms, neon lights, based in a polluted and unvegetated world.

Jasmine Sokko TERMS & CONDITIONS A zooming and constantly moving landscape of the escalator in a tunnel lit by neon lights

Methodology

Use of AI to generate Images/Videos Steps: 1. Prepare Disco Diffusion Notebook 2. Input key words and phrases (including colour scheme and artists if any) 3. Run the codes until optimal 4. Scale up the frames to the required resolution using Neuralism ERSGAN 5. Download the images created 6. Edit frames in Adobe After Effects

Process - Finding Suitable Keywords

City

Digital City

Broken City

Process - Finding Suitable Keywords

Neon Lights

Pop Art

Op Art (Optical Art)

Pixel Art

Pollution

ACT 1 30 sec

Storyboard

Futuristic, unvegetated cityscape filled with endless buildings

Everchanging cityscape through time, with characters preoccupied in their own world

Retro Arcade machine visualising the germination of plants in the city

ACT2 30 sec

Transformation into a sustainable city with plants

Mother Nature is being freed through the chaos

More Floral and Fauna grows throughout the barren land

Tree of Life appears in the background and starts to grow

Tree of Life provides a portal, bringing wildlife and greenery back

Greenery and plants start to engulf the world again as nature returns

ACT3 30 sec

Final Scenes

Final Scenes

Final Scenes

Preview Clip

Inputs text_prompts = { 0: [ "Cyberpunk city, Cityscape, Synthwav e, Vaporwave, Retrowave, Cyber, Geometry, Landsc ape, midnight city,galaxy, neon city, city pop, Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme", ], 120: [ "Lofi city, midnight city,galaxy, U nreal Engine","pastel color scheme", "Pain reminds you the joy you felt w as real. More joy, then.","Digital Lover"

], 200: [ "The city of broken dreams,galaxy, m irrors, Unreal Engine", "pastel color scheme", "Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger." ], 420: [ "Retro Arcade,galaxy, Unreal Engine" ,"pastel color scheme","light pink color scheme" , "What makes your memories so authent ic?" ], 620: [ "wasteland and pollution, pollution on mars,Vaporwave,galaxy, Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme","light pink color scheme", ], 700: [ "Vaporwave,galaxy,pollution, Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme","light pink color scheme", ], 800: [ "Huge Plant Vending Machine,galaxy, Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme","light pink color scheme", "I always told you. You’re special.

Your history isn’t over yet. There’s still a pag e left" ], 960: [ "Huge Plant Vending Machine,Plants g rowing on vending machine, galaxy,Unreal Engine" ,"pastel color scheme","light pink color scheme" , ],

1020: [ "Plants overtaking vending machine,g alaxy, Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme","lig ht pink color scheme", "I’m not in the business. I am the b usiness." ], 1280: [ "Light at the end of the tunnel,gala xy, Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme","light pink color scheme", "You’ve Never Seen A Miracle" ], 1300: [ "Emerald Green Portal to the unknown , galaxy,Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme", "If only you could see what I’ve see n with your eyes! " ], 1410: [ "Neon seed growing in a wasteland, m ars ,galaxy, Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme ", " To Be Born Is To Have A Soul, I Gu ess." ], 1500: [ "Neon Plants growing in wasteland, m ars , Unreal Engine","pastel color scheme", "Half as much but twice as elegant, sweetheart." ], 1660: [ "Neon plants growing into forest, Un real Engine", "Our lives mean nothing next to a st orm that’s coming." ], 1700: [ "Neon plants growing into cityscape, sustainable city, vaporwave, Unreal Engine", "Can the maker repair what he makes? " ], 1860: [ "Neon Forest in Lofi City, Unreal En gine", "I need the old blade runner, I need your magic." ], 1920: [ "Hope at last, Unreal Engine", "Fiery, the angels fell. Deep thunde r rolled round their shores. Burning with the fi res of Orc" ],

1130: [ "Green color scheme,galaxy, green l eaves, green tree, green bark, green bushes", " Green color scheme" ], 1160: [ "Green Giant Tree of Life, Green Tr ee, Green leaves, green branches, Spring, cherr y blossom, Plants growing into forest, galaxy, green color scheme, Unreal Engine", "Our lives mean nothing next to a s torm that’s coming.", "Green color scheme" ], 1260: [ "Neon plants growing into forest, G iant Tree of Life, Green Tree, galaxy,Green lea ves, springtime, cherry blossom Summer time, g reen color scheme,Unreal Engine", "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness", "Green color scheme" ], 1300: [ "Giant Tree of Life, Green Tree, Gr een leaves, huge tree in center, Summer,cherry blossom,galaxy, flourishing, green, Neon plants growing into cityscape, sustainable city, gre en color scheme, Unreal Engine", "Can the maker repair what he makes ?", "Green color scheme" ], 1360: [ "Giant Tree of Life, growing larger , centre , forest in Lofi City, green color sch eme,galaxy, luscious leaves,cherry blossom, sum mer , Unreal Engine", "To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots", "Green color scheme" ], 1450: [ "Giant Tree of Life, tall huge tree , growing taller , huge tree in center, Hope at last, green color scheme, galaxy,cherry blosso m, summer , green portal into the unknown, Unre al Engine", "Green color scheme", ] , 1810: [ "Enormous Tree of Life,galaxy, gree n portal into the unknown,flourishing leaves, c herry blossom, Unreal Engine", "To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots", "Green color scheme" ],

1900: [ "Huge Tree of Life, galaxy, Emerald green portal into the unknow n , flourishing leaves, butterfly, tree of b utterflies, birds , Unreal Engine", "Green color scheme" ], 2250: [ "Explosion of nature, Flora and fuana,galaxy, butterflies, birds , flouris hing leaves, Unreal Engine", "Green color scheme" ], 2350: [ "Nature, Flora and fuana, biodiv ersity,galaxy, butterflies, birds , opening new doors, flourishing leaves, Unreal Engin e", "Green color scheme", "Light at the end of the tunnel", "When love is aw akened in our inner being, our perception of the universe undergoes a vast change" ], 2550: [ "Nature, Flora and fuana, vaporw ave, galaxy, cyberpunk city, butterflies, b irds , opening new doors,candyland,flouris hing leaves, Unreal Engine", "Green color scheme" "The st orms won’t last forever There is always that light at the end of the tunnel." ,"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within r each of every hand." ], 2650: [ ], 2650: [ "sustainable city, galaxy, Unrea l Engine", "Green color scheme" ], } image_prompts = { # 0:['ImagePromptsWorkButArentVeryGood.p ng:2',], }

Tutorials Disco Diffusion https://weirdwonderfulai.art/resources/getting-started-with-disco-diffusion/ https://colab.research.google.com/github/alembics/discodiffusion/blob/main/Disco_Diffusion.ipynb https://twitter.com/pharmapsychotic?lang=en Youtube Tutorials https://youtu.be/Dx2G940Pao8 https://youtu.be/FA2MNG8D5x0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afkpifMPOGA ERSGAN / CLIP https://giantmonster.co/2022/02/10/luchador-series-as-new-realism-popart/ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BcZ__wg5cNxE8hovChDcDlQGG62yEX 75 AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ovr5YWJuNk&list=PLXWOZ60mWzBPAF 1z-36xAmt9_UPBHQc7B&index=2

About Me

Hi I’m Xuan Ying, a student from Information Engineering and Media. I enjoy the challenge in trying and exploring new techniques and technologies. I am constantly learning about new methods, such as using Artificial Intelligence to create artwork.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/xuan-ying-leow Email: xuanying290@gmail.com