The Dancer: Motion Graphics with AI (Work In Progress)
This project is a collection of elements designed with the idea of experimenting with artificial intelligence tools for generating images, videos, and graphic elements. The project is a work in progress and I will continue adding more elements when they are ready.
The story behind
My idea was to visualize a ballet dancer, representing solitude, effort, and elegance. I wanted an ethereal, subtle image where the elements would blend together. I used cotton candy and clouds as inspiration for the dancer's hair. I used light pink and white colors to create that ethereal, romantic, and elegant image.
Tools used
Date
Jan 2025
The visuals
I designed the poster using Figma. For the poster, I wanted to preserve the elegance of the photograph, so I used rose gold tones and muted tones that blend harmoniously with the overall palette without being intrusive.
The Runway final prompt
This woman is opening her eyes. Her hair is like clouds that transform into smoke and slightly expand into light pink smoke in the air. The smoke in the background blends with her smoked hair, mixing the colours in a dance. Slow motion. The camera stays fixed.
The animation was generated using Runway
The process
I started this project in 2023, generating many images of the dancer in Midjourney, until I obtained some high-quality photos that effectively communicated the idea.
In January 2024, I added some of these images to Runway and conducted several tests.
Prompt: A hyper realistic photo of a woman with a dress made of cotton candy. Half body picture, high realistic, high contrast, 8k, hyper-detailed, cotton candy, macro lens, macro photo, natural face, natural expression, pink makeup, face details
Challenges in achieving the ethereal vision
The generated videos didn’t quite capture the ethereal idea I was aiming for. What I wanted was for the dancer’s hair to transform into vapor or smoke and flood the composition.
I also wanted the dancer to move gracefully and blink. However, I couldn’t get the dancer to blink because whenever I added more movement details to the prompt, the generated video would either just zoom in on the dancer’s face or lose the effect of the smoke coming out of her head.
Next steps
I plan to expand on the same theme by creating more elements to complete the project, such as a loader with pale pink smoke, or adding motion to the mobile app design.
Mobile app design with the dancer theme