Callidus

Director's Commentary

A fun little project that came together very organically. I recently got the banners on the site fixed after being borked for quite some time. Looking them over again, I felt the urge to freshen them up and went digging through my folder for some raw material.

While the writing was coming along, I had the idea to change the position of her hands, to follow along with the dialogue, so there would be two different poses: one when the camera cranes up and another when it cranes down. In the old days, that idea would’ve cost me days of time to pull off; if I even could’ve done it at all. Getting two poses on her arms while leaving her head and face identical in both (to cover the transition) would’ve taken a lot of time to get right.

In the era of AI image editing, however, it took more time to launch the software than it did to make the change. That’s a very exciting development, being able to create in real time as the ideas are flowing. Any guesses which pose is the original and which is the edit?