Although technology and nature appear to be polar opposites, they share in their dependence upon human intervention to protect their growth. “Forest” highlights this relationship through the use of EbSynth AI on natural textures.

Forest

Process

EbSynth (by Secret Weapons) is a software powered by artificial intelligence that applies the style of an illustration done over one frame a video to the entirety of the video.

After filming, I used Adobe After Effects to convert each video clip into a series of PNGs.

I then selected “key frames” that were most representative of the video clip and created an illustration over the frame using Procreate.

I directed the EbSynth software to the location of the illustrated keyframe and the original version, adjusted the settings, and ran the program to generate the full set of illustrated frames.

I reviewed EbSynth’s output to ensure the animation was consistent with the video.

The final step was uploading the animated PNGs to After Effects to create a moving picture. I used After Effects and Premiere Pro to combine and edit each completed video.