Interview

1. What is your favourite prompt when creating art? (please add 2-3 examples of your work that include that prompt, you can also link to a Twitter / IG post with images / videos)

One prompt that I really like is 'petting zoo with alien creatures' : https://twitter.com/GanWeaving/status/1565359575242575872?s=20&t=lLLJwc6W_A35pYmi1rWoug

Another one is 'boys/girls fixing their robotic toys':
https://twitter.com/GanWeaving/status/1567129481881452545?s=20&t=lLLJwc6W_A35pYmi1rWoug
https://twitter.com/GanWeaving/status/1566133607441235973?s=20&t=lLLJwc6W_A35pYmi1rWoug

2. Who is your favourite artist?

I don't have one favourite artist. I won't mention the very well known ones, instead I'll list a couple of probably lesser known ones: Mattias Adolfsson, Enki Bilal and Shaun Tan.

3. What does your workflow look like (from inspiration to final product, what tools do you use, etc)?

Since I'm mostly doing StableDiffusion these days, I'm usually quickly iterating ideas on playgroundai.com, playing around with prompt variations, and mixing different artists to see if there's a style coming out of this that I really like. And then I will use those prompts in the Deforum notebook on Google Colab and experiment a lot with its parameters. Either for still images or animatons.

4. Anything else you would like to share?

Just play around with these wonderful new tools. Brush up your art history! Look up historical artists and art styles. Mash things together! Feed paradoxes to the machine and curate the outputs. And above all, don't forget: Everything is a remix! Let no one tell you differently. Especially not that AI art is just pushing as button or copy-pasting. Only ignorant people will claim this. Educate them!