Open Blocks VR to Silo

Blocks was really clever and powerful 3d content creation tool in VR made by Google some years ago, but then was abandoned along with tools like Tilt Brush...yet they kept the bones of these tools Open Source for others to tinker with, and so, Open Blocks was born a few months ago. This rekindled my interest in content creation in VR, though I did end of modifying the scene somewhat through Silo 3d from Nevercenter. 

Open Blocks_Karl Wants Orange! by Matt Connors on Sketchfab

First update of 2025

It's been way too long since I have posted any of my artwork, and there's not really a good reason, other than life somethimes gets in the way, or priorities of my family and work came in front of updates. But it's definitely not due to being idels, as I have actually found that in the past year I have been fairly prolific with my artwork in a balanced way; tactile drawing and painting, some digital work, VR artworks, and quite a bit of dabbling with AI on my own creations. This video is made using Silo 3d, with Milo for rendering, then further re-render with Vizcom and then some Photoshop compositing. 

New Year, which brings more robots...

Coming back from a short break over the Holidays, and I am digging back into Vizcom as a tool to refine existing drawings, make them fresh again, and in some cases, make them more complete than they were before. In this case, I had an old iPhone drawing that I had done that I was never quite satisfied with, so I re-rendered in Vizcom, and then painted over in SketchbookPro. 

Update on Friday, January 5, 2024 at 2:55PM by Matthew Seydel Connors

Here was the original drawing that I started with, mainly Sketchbook on an iPhone.

Kaiber AI Animations

Another AI tool that I have been experimenting with is Kaiber, which can use a source image or video and a prompt to then create a sequential animation. Of course, you can just use a prompt by itself, but I am finding that starting with a drawing or render helps to guide the process 

AI Paintover Tutorial Series

About a month ago, I gave a presentation at my company, the Volvo Group, on generative AI tools. I will post the video of the presentation, but in preparation, I also made a series of videos showing off some generative AI tools, and then methods of editing the 2d content in mostly Photoshop and SketchbookPro.