A new piece (though the central image was done a year or so ago, but just animated recently) combining three video looping animations into a triptych of equal parts. I've always been fond of this format, & also of many of the artists who've used it (Bosch, Breughel, Bacon, all the B's).
"It's a Strange World After All", AI video triptych, 2026
And here's a still image to show the details more clearly:
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| "It's a Strange World After All", AI, 2026 |
It was a common theme in Surrealism to replace the head of a human (preferably in a suit of some kind) with that of an animal's, or even an inanimate object. Plus, if you do this in sepia, it looks old-timey. If you do it in video, even better. So, here are some recent short AI videos (& 1 still image) where I have in fact replaced the heads. From top to bottom: The Howler, Eguardo, The Grandfather of the Sea, Monsieur Le Pachyderme & El Perro.
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| The Egg Brothers, AI, 2026 |
"Floating Glass Cities", another generative AI image, I made it today. And a Happy New Year to all!
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| Floating Glass Cities, AI, 2025 |
This is one of my fairly early experiments in AI video...creating the images and movie loops in Leonardo.AI & assembling them in Blender's video editor. I'm still learning...
This is currently my favorite deranged conspiracy theory, as seen on X/Twitter etc. Apparently there was a huge technologically advanced empire that everyone has forgotten about that created all the neoclassical, etc. buildings of the 19th century & beforehand. I'm baffled that people believe this stuff...? Here are my AI homages to this:
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| The Majesty of Tartaria, AI, 2025 |
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| The Fall of Tartaria, AI, 2025 |
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| Tartarian Ruins, AI, 2025 |
This was a little collaboration with Tamiko Thiel. I was showing her how the Leonardo.Ai interface worked, so I put in a Tower of Babel and an airship (which are themes I use quite a lot), & she suggested incorporating kudzu, which is apparently an invasive vine that has taken over parts of the southern US, & is a huge problem. So, that added another element entirely to the piece. BTW, Tamiko is a very accomplished XR artist, you should check out her web site.
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| Tower of Babel with Monster Kudzu, Ayton & Thiel, AI co-generated, 2024 |
Here's another image I've been playing with, a Narcissus variation. I used Leonardo Ai's "Canvas" feature to interactively draw parts of the image, & also used text prompts to define it.
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| Narcissus in the Pool AI |
I've just created a new Tumblr blog to hold my AI artwork. You can find it at aytonai.tumblr.com. I'll be uploading more work as time goes on. Check it out.
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| Homage to Bosch version 1 (AI generated image) |
My first successful (in my opinion) experiment with AI image creation--I used the Leonardo AI web interface to create this image of the Empire State Building in NYC attacked by monsters. It's the closest image I've created in AI that looks like I might have made it myself. More coming, I hope...
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| Empire State Monsters, AI generated image |
