Please enjoy these 5 short stories from the video game Hailo: Combat Devolved.

This video is the culmination of my explorations into AI chatbots (Microsoft Copilot/Bing Chat GPT-4) and AI image creation (Bing’s Designer). The story telling aspect is what interested me the most about these AI language tools. The notion that a computer can quickly generate a completely original story (that makes logical sense) is exciting for the field of art and entertainment.

Personally, I have been having a lot of fun with both of these AI tools (art and chat). The idea behind this video was to use both AI programs to create a singular work of art; by having Bing Chat write several scripts and then have Bing AI Art create the illustrations for said stories. What you see above is the final result.

Music from this video:
Faster Does It - Kevin MacLeod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDDrqSBza6E

I Knew a Guy - Kevin MacLeod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q50TIJhelj0

Sovereign Quarter - Kevin MacLeod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oke8e-OUnbY

Carefree - Kevin MacLeod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qapK8Gx6ZTo

Perchance to Dream (Perfect Loop) - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, Ramdon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MquB84YdIY

What Once Was Lost (Extended) - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, Cyborg Mark VI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUwOuJdGeWM

Covenant Dance - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMKf6j-AFIQ

Lament for Pvt. Jenkins - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWHVVEuj5Dk

Rock Anthem for Saving the World - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptzXFVU1eg

Opening Suite - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4mRgxIYtE0

Dust and Echoes - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXe_hSHLQ0

Halo - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZLSho2o-M

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The 11 Second Club is a website for aspiring and experienced animators, where they can participate in monthly competitions to create the best animated short based on a pre-selected 11 second snippet of dialogue (could be from a Movie, TV show or Video Game). The one main rule of the competition is that the artist cannot, in any way, edit the original dialogue track.
However, because I tend to be a slower artist I instead prefer to use this website as a method of practice for my personal development, meaning that, my animations have never and will never be submitted to the competitions. This allows me to add onto and edit the preexisting audio snippet (as I have done here).
In this particular short I wanted to build up some experience in animating human characters as well as move the story into a very different setting (when compared to the city in my last video ‘Play Dead’). I have also attempted to simulate three-dimensional depth by recreating the use of a multiplane camera (this was done by creating separate pieces in Adobe Photoshop that could then be manipulated in Adobe After Effects).

The dialogue comes from the 11 second club website and can be found under the February 2018 competition:
https://www.11secondclub.com/competitions

I obtained the following three songs from the FMA Free Music Archive, which can be found here:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ask%20Again/castle-rent-medieval-inspired-songs-1/streets-of-santivo

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Various_Artists_-_Artifacts_Vol_1/Necroscopix_Vol_1_1970-1981/13_Some_Jungle_Music

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/action/golem

My original animatic can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/387301606

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https://hurleyanimation.weebly.com/

The 11 Second Club is a website for aspiring and experienced animators, where they can participate in monthly competitions to create the best animated short based on a pre-selected 11 second snippet of dialogue (could be from a Movie, TV show or Video Game). The one main rule of the competition is that the artist cannot, in any way, edit the original dialogue track.

However, because I tend to be a slower artist I instead prefer to use this website as a method of practice for my personal development, meaning that, my animations have never and will never be submitted to the competitions. This allows me to add onto and edit the preexisting audio snippet (as I have done here).

This particular short was a fun way in both knocking off the rust (since I hadn’t animated in over three years) and adding more Flash animation to my portfolio.

The dialogue comes from the 11 second club website and can be found under the April 2016 competition:
https://www.11secondclub.com/competitions

I obtained the music from the FMA Free Music Archive and can be found here:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Underscore_Orkestra/Table_Dance/The_Underscore_Orkestra_-_Rhythm_Gitane

My original animatic can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/254133001

You might also be interested in my website:
https://hurleyanimation.weebly.com/

This video briefly covers the process of making the Stop Motion 2 film, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”. This short film was produced in the Stop Motion studio at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

The music used in this video is entitled “Oneiri” by Kai Engel. (I do not own the rights to this song; I am simply using it for entertainment/ educational purposes). You can find the full song here- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ICD-10/Kai_Engel_-_ICD-10_-_06_Oneiri

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In my senior year of college I enrolled in a course called Stop Motion 2. The purpose of the class was to learn how to work as a group in a studio setting and to produce a short film. The concept came from our teacher Adam Savje and the story is based on the etching, ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ by Francisco Goya. I was apart of the production team and I did all of the editing on the film.

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I started to sketch out ideas for this degree project in the summer of 2014 and finished final edits in April 2015. In the beginning I knew that I wanted to create a stop motion film with soda cans. Through class critiques ideas changed and evolved into what you see here. The music used in this film are titled “Cylinder One” by Chris Zabriskie and “Stourpaine March”, composer unknown. (I do not own the rights to these songs. I am simply using them for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

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In this video I wanted to showcase my ability to model and texture objects in Maya. I built half of the scooter from scratch using two reference pictures and I then mirrored the geometry to create a whole vehicle. The music used in this film is “La Vie En Rose by Louis Armstrong. (I do not own the rights to this song nor to the Vespa logo; I am simply using them for educational/ entertainment purposes.)

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This was my final project for the class 'Digital Toolbox 3'. The program I used to create this short animation is Autodesk Maya. The character rig is by David O'Reilly. The music is "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. (I do not own the rights to the song and the character rig. I am simply using them both for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

You can find the full song here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4

You can find the character rig here-
http://www.davidoreilly.com/

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A short film I made for Animation 4. Our homework was to pick a real place and then make an animation that recreated the spirit of that location. I chose my hometown. The song used in this piece is entitled, “Laserdisc” by Chris Zabriskie. (I do not own the rights to this song; I am simply using it for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

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This was my final project for the class Advanced Character Animation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The goal of the project was to use multiple layers of vellum paper to create a sense of 3-dimentional depth in the overall scene. The story is simple: an animate flower tries to find the perfect vase.

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I made this film in response to an assignment for my animation portfolio class. The car shown in this video is a 2015 ford fusion (stock car variant) and it was made entirely from cut construction paper. The music is titled Prelude No. 3 by Chris Zabriskie (I do not own the rights to this song; I am purely using it for non-profit, entertainment/ educational purposes.)

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The above video is a compilation of various animation assignments from my time at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. These projects ranged from quick studies to fully fleshed out ideas. I’ve taken the time to add additional music and sound effects to some of these clips and I will list below the links to some of the music I’ve used.

Songs:

--No Me Se Rajar by Vicente Fernandez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_HS3ebxzxk

--Buckbreak by Ken Hamm
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Various_Peppermill_Records/Hi_and_Ho_We_Plant_Trees/set2-08-Ken_Hamm-Buckbreak_1945

-- Promenade Moderato non tanto pesante by Skidmore College Orchestra
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Skidmore_College_Orchestra/Mussorgskys_Pictures_at_an_Exhibition/Promenade_Moderato_non_tanto_pesante

-- Warm Fingers by Blue Dot Sessions
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Piano_Mover/Warm_Fingers

-- Frog Legs Rag (1906, piano roll) by James Scott
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Scott/Frog_Legs_Ragtime_Era_Favorites/01_-_james_scott_-_frog_legs_rag

-- Pirate Bay by THANASIS G.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/THANASIS_G/PIRATE_BAY/Pirate_Bay

What if breakfast could make itself....? That was the homework prompt a fellow student gave me. For my animation I came up with the idea of anthropomorphic slices of bead paying tribute to humans (in a King Kong sort of way). The song used in this short film is entitled, “Bongo Psylocybin” by Sid Peacock. (I do not own the rights to this song; I am simply using it for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

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This film was my final project for Stop Motion 1. I wanted to make a film that utilized everything I had learned that semester. I also wanted to include the stop motion puppet I had made. The song used in this film is titled “No Good About Goodbye” by Shirley Bassey. (I do not own the rights to this song; nor do I own the rights for the 007 logo. I am simply using both for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

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This was a short homework assignment for my Design for Animators class. We had to find a snippet of dialogue from any video of our choosing and then create an animation using only words, similar to the popular Dot Dot Dot animation by Ricepirate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2Z23SAFVA

I chose to use a quote from the season 9, Seinfeld episode, “The Strike”.

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Our homework for Stop Motion 1 was simple; pick any object and come up with creative camera movements. I chose a can of chili.
The song used in this short film is entitled, “Dance of The Stargazer” by U.S. Army Blues. (I do not own the rights to this song; I am simply using it for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

You can find the full song here- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/US_Army_Blues/Live_At_Blues_Alley/0_-_03_-_The_US_Army_Blues_-_Dance_Of_The_Stargazer

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Homework: Generate 5 random ink drawings and then from these drawings create a film that has a beginning, middle and end. This was the result. Audio is from Freesound.org.

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How are coins made and how do they travel? Where are they born and where do they die?
This was a short film I made for Animation 3. For homework everyone was given a single word to make an animation from. I got the word ‘Coin’. From there I decided to make my film about the life cycle of a coin. The songs used in this video are, “Blackout” by Zulus and “66/55” by Westy Reflector. (I do not own the rights to these songs; I am simply using them for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

You can find the full songs here-

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Westy_Reflector/still_echoes/The_Reflectors_-_still_echoes_-_05_66-55

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Zulus/Live_at_WFMU_on_August_5_2012/Zulus_-_05_-_Blackout

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The idea behind this project was to take a quote and create an animation from it. I chose the famous quote by Neil Armstrong, “That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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This was a film I made in my sophomore year of college, in the class entitled 'Drawing For Animators'. This video is a culmination of all projects I completed in the class. The title of the song used in the video is “I Give Up” and is performed by Rusty Isabell. (I do not own the rights to this song; I am simply using it for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

You can find the full song here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jym_POQS1Ac

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This was a film I made in my sophomore year of college. The project entailed making 100 abstract images and then creating a film from that. The title of the song used in the video is “Ping Pong” and is performed by Bernie Green & his orchestra. (I do not own the rights to this song; I am simply using it for entertainment/ educational purposes.)

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This is a zoetrope I made for one of my animation classes. A zoetrope is an early animation device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid series of static pictures (also known as frames). The theme of this zoetrope is nutrition and exercise. The song used in this piece is "Swipesy cakewalk" by Scott Joplin. (I do not own the rights to this song; I am simply using it for entertainment/ educational purposes).

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