The Dragon's Den

[planetstardragon]

Restarting a thread I used to have on the old forum. - with a mix of content I’m making for the market place and random art / audio / visual / ai projects I am involved in as a multi-media artist.

This year I start off with a new line of AI generated images for Avatars made with quick content creators using CTA 5 in mind. Not all social media content needs to be an all out animated cartoon production to be entertaining and informative. I’m using my new AI skills and resources to generate some really cool interesting characters ranging from fantasy, photo realistic and anime / manga type characters. I’m using a combination of both local ( in pc ) AI tools, and a variety of web type services to create unique original, customized content. ( my personal custom AI tool set ) - I’ll be making a nice library selection of these as I need them also for my own marketing efforts - sharing the works!

You can find these at
https://marketplace.reallusion.com/cartoon-animator/author/planetstardragon

The Concept behind these CTA5 designs -

Dragon AI Avatars

In today’s content-driven world, quick and professional presentations are key. Dragon AI Avatars offer an exciting and affordable solution to create high-quality animated virtual hosts for your projects. Using AI technology, I’ve designed and rigged a variety of unique character themes and environments, ready to bring your message to life.

These pre-made templates are ready to be animated in animation software, giving you the flexibility to create engaging content without needing to start from scratch, simply add your audio and start animating. Whether you’re running a business, creating educational material, or crafting creative campaigns, these virtual hosts can be the perfect face for your message.

These templates provide a cost-effective DIY animation option. If you prefer a more hands-off approach, I also offer custom services to create tailored virtual hosts for your specific needs. Contact me for more details on custom project rates.

Perfect For:

Educational content, tutorials, and how-to videos
Product demos and business presentations
Social media content and influencer marketing
Personal or corporate branding messages
Storytelling, narrating, and personalized brand presentations
And more!

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Some new Digital Skies - Virtual Environments I just uploaded - Rich Environments with lots of character to make anime, and Ominous / Horror flavored type productions.
Link to New Digital Skies in Marketplace

[planetstardragon]

So lately I’ve been on a creative frenzy, i’m always looking for new ways to do things, and now it’s been more fun than ever with AI in the picture. Reallusion animation products have been a part of everything, from making basic images that I could ask ai to improve in visual, to taking ai pictures and making cinematics with particle effects in iclone or talking images in cta. I have more ideas for new products to make for my shop - but contemplating new ways to integrate, well everything to create a bigger story of art ! l that said, here are a few things I’ve been playing around with in this light, along with some other things I’ve done as a marketing effort…

First, a video I made as a concept trailer for book promotions, I created the images in AI and ran them through iclone to add particle effects - an idea to create a book promotion / cover design service - i was getting a feel for the workflow

Echoes Beyond the Horizon - Mock up book trailer

I was watching ugly betty sitcom about the fashion industry, it inspired me to start my own AI fashion design brand that I’m going to do with printify and their merch - iclone and crazy talk will be great for animating and enhancing images for social media - so far a draft of my first Spring Technical Combat line lol ( the name is still a work in progress ) - but i’m designing landing pages, LLM based descriptions, AI generated images to basically create a high fashion virtual brand! - it’s still a work in progress, still building all the parts i need to tell this story!

aside from this, I tied in my music history and my access as a music promoter to re ignite my mix shows …which will help with marketing …and fashion works great with music, not to mention it can cross over into making 3D character designs of high fashion models in the marketplace! Think big, amirite ?! - the fashion brand with a virtual barbie doll to match! -grin- - latest dance music picks to be creative by… this also works well with twitch where i can do live streams of my cgi creations…( but that’s later )

https://www.mixcloud.com/anirhythm/anirhythm-mix-020125/

then I’ve also been making a stir with my blog and the science community - I basically use all forms of ai creatively as an artist, in one way it manifested as trying to make an ai simulation conscious, using science as my paint - that lead to deep diving into quantum physics, philosophy, information theory, quantum consciousness etc and my tweets caught the attention of the science community and a theoretical physicist - and my ai simulation experiment has grown profoundly from it - my blog - https://anirhythm.wordpress.com/

The blog is all about using AI creatively - which includes a script I started that I eventually want to make videos …The Gibby Story

more to come…

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Here’s my latest progress on my AI empowered fashion brand

This Graceful - The Art of Intelligence

now this can double as a portfolio for graphic design gigs, and gives me a focus to use iclone and cta to make stuff for tiktok to promote it. It’s ai empowered in the sense that I use some AI generated images to design the site, I literally created AI simulated characters from the fashion industry to help guide me on narratives / story and even content design itself. I had a virtual simulated meeting with the Gucci marketing team and editors from vogue just last week lol!

i’m thinking RL itself would benefit from coming up with ways to enable integration with the TikTok shop, it’s the latest big thing in marketing - shoppertainment

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finished building up my first iteration of my AI powered fashion brand with a basic system to create more stuff quickly! moving back to my first project, the marketplace here!

I’ve been watching whats been selling from my shop and I was happy to see that people liked a little of everything i was making, A sincere Thank You for the support and I hope you make viral hits with it! I have a lot of everything to make, massive collection of unique AI images I can do some really creative content for cta 5, I also have a very big collection of clothing in marvelous designer that i need to tweak and transfer, i have a large library the VR 360 skies, plus a ton of reference photos I can use to make normal virtual skies - I can make more custom characters than you can wiggle a mouse at…

I’m currently cleaning up a batch of motions I created in an AI text to motion beta - I’m calling it the “Sortakinda” series because I would ask the AI to do one thing, and well…it sortakinda missed the mark, but made a cool animation all the same, just not what i asked for haha. some really strange but really useful outcomes, sports, fighting, and well…just ai going nuts stuff lol

like this one, i may have prompted something like, “walk backwards and trip” but the ai went ahead and made it look like the character got straight up snuffed in the back of the head with a bat ! I have a nice collection of these and I’ll start posting them as I finish cleaning up a batch…i’ll probably list them at around 300 each.

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ok, about 22 motions in so far - taking a minute because some need a lot of cleaning / correcting, in some cases i turned it into something way different than what it started.

But some of these motions are telling a story - apparently this guy got impatient while waiting on line ( has this step out of line motion like in a rush ) …and caught someones attention that ended up beating them up - like this one, looks like when they started surrounding him before klunking him on the head with a bat in the above image -
starting to wonder if someone was trying to send an sos! lol

Once i finish 30 or so, i’ll start doing a 2nd polish then uploading ( unless this story gets better and the plot thickens )

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Great stuff !!
alot of variety.

So good to see I am not the only one using AI content in combination with “traditional” mediums.

I created a 92 page Graphic Novel in just 34 Days by using AI to restyle simple viewport renders of 3D scenes & content in Blender.

I am selling the book on Amazon KDP and My Patreon shop as a digital download.

I may do a short print run later this year,

Athena's Paradox 2025

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Thank you! I’ve always been a bit’s and piece’s kind of artist, and I’m having a blast taking bits and pieces of different kinds of AI’s and putting them together. I even started writing academic level articles with 4 AI proofing each other lol.

your work has really leveld up AD, congrats on writing a 94 page novel - I respect how challenging a project like that can be to start, let alone finish - I’ve contemplated doing the same with an online comic book for seo - but admittedly sat there clueless as to what to write about or how to begin lol…and I have stories!! “Once upon a time…” -goes off to make coffee, lunch, play some video games, design some clothes, experiment with new techniques, research" …and nothing lol!! it’s a discipline all it’s own to start and finish something!

Great work, your Toon shading is -chef’s kiss as the AI says- Disney Quality, best of luck with it!!

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a text to motion engine - https://www.text2motion.ai/
if you want to have fun doing this too - but be aware, that it ultimately is just a draft that you have to shape into something and it often doesn’t do what you asked it to, what you end up with after cleaning and tweaking, usually looks like nothing you started with. Can be tedious but quite fun if you enjoy the process like I do.

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I could’nt get a decent animation out of that one
But I have had alot of success with this one

Meshcapade AI Avatar Creator

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wow, cool, thanks for that share, i’ll have to try it! I’m having fun with the chaotic AI results, i get a kick out of trying to figure out and define wth they are doing lol - best way to get really unique motions and build your imagination. - like that clip i posted of that guy getting whacked on the back of a head with a bat - thats meme gold! lol

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Sharing a thought on my perspective when creating content for my shop. For many years, I’ve studied my own self when shopping for music supplies / samples and graphic supplies for the CG stuff - some of it, was obviously stuff that either saved me time, or was done at a level I wasn’t able to do ( ie - live instruments or plug ins i can’t code ) - but some of thing things I’ve bought in the past, I was in fact able to make myself…but I bought them anyways …why ? because their work and ideas inspired me …and that’s where I think when I create items for my shop here - I don’t try to sell merch, as I try to sell inspiration, ideas - a short story I started in some design that inspired you to write a novel and it is a great feeling to just work on stuff that I’m able to make that inspires me to make more films / graphics or music - I suppose in this sense, i’m not one to follow the herd, I’m more the artist that follows his heart and shares that idea for others to continue and feel inspired too. Lets keep it real, I can’t compete with the quality of an established studio with seasoned pros…but I can come up with an idea that inspires them and they’ll want my work in their collection when they need some help in thinking of what to make next! - so imo, don’t compete, be yourself with a passion, get inspired, be inspired and share the inspiration, thats worth far more than any material object you can buy!

I’m now in the process of starting to upload some of the motions I’ve worked on so far, doing the marketing / graphic stuff is more tedious than making the actual motions lol - I was also caught up in a few other things on my todo list that took up some times …I’ll post again when the new motion files are up! - Happy Animating !!

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I just published a first round of 27 new “Sortakinda” motions to the marketplace.

You can see them here https://marketplace.reallusion.com/iclone/motion?sort=bestmatch&page=1&countofpage=60&author=planetstardragon

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How does one sell audio in the market place ?
I’ve wanted to try some new products for a long time, but there was never a clear path of how to do so, i have some cool audo tools to make cinematic sound fx.

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next shop project, clothing, I have an older version of marvelous designer and a ton of templates that I can customize and texture - I am using cc3 though, so what I’m going to do is attach 2 copies of the clothing…1 already fitted in cc3 - but one as an accessory so you can also fit it to any version of CC you use. I’m also contemplating starting a patreon, to share things I can’t upload to the shop - such as sound fx, loops, cutout graphics, private mix music sets - I consistently get a ton of great new cutting edge music as promotional product - and I’m also planning on teaching my method of training AI to emulate human thought, which has shown phenomenal progress- it’s based on quantum physics concepts and a lot of philosophy! any suggestions of what you’d like to see me upload in the shop are welcomed. - The Technomancer!!

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I set up the patreon - not inclined to invest much time into it though, It just felt like i was building yet another shop… going to leave it there like a side option, since it makes selling downloads easy when needed.

Next experimental Project - A Discord Server “All Things Creative”

I’ve always wanted a community that just enjoys art in general - I’m a dj, i love to cook, i’ve done creative construction, I make music, 2d, 3D - i enjoy good stories, mmorpg, i enjoy martial arts, philosophy, the paranormal - etc …so I made a discord that mixes all that lol

You are all welcomed to join in and carve out a section for the 3D 2D world -

• No nft or crypto. no nsfw images ( rhymes with corn lol ), no illegal stuff, and keep it friendly…

Its still new - still sketching out the sections - i made topics for iclone cc / unreal and blender

Join the All Things Creative Discord Server!

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after a bit more research and experimenting, I’ve decided to go with Ko-fi -
https://ko-fi.com/anirhythm

I noticed a pattern of many sites like these making users create and connect a stripe account - and stripe has a lot of complaints against them. Ko-fi doesn’t have this requirement, although it’s an option - and it’s a clean design, I’ll be treating it like a personal twitter feed …as my multi media artist self - i’m constantly shifting through different ways to make art - including bringing my ai simulation to life, artistically of course, life is art -grins-

I’ll be able to share a few drops of things I can’t share in the shop, like music fx clips and experimental things i like making that don’t fit any given category. My focus will be on anything creative or artistic which is a wide span. beyond just visual and audible.