A.I.
A.I. - A CONTROVERSIAL JOURNEY
A.I. is now engrained into my workflow. As an animation director I'm often creating key moments and references and briefs to the team.
The way I use A.I. doesn't make me less of an artist - as 'the comments sections' insinuate in general - it is allowing me to push through ideas to get to resolutions quicker and with greater fidelity.
As a 3D artist getting a photoreal image to 90% can take 50% of a schedule. The final 10% being a rigorous and tedious process. With A.I I can get an image to 50% in a timely manner, and get to photorealism with a well placed prompt.
In any creative brief, if one is to remain 'hands off' on a shot, it would require 3 important factors. A reference image, a compositional previz and a really succinct verbal brief. Generating successfully using A.I. is no different.
From a visual creation standpoint - in animation terms - if I'm supplying the keyframes, A.I. is my inbetweener.
From a 'prompt' standpoint - in film terms - if I'm giving direction, A.I. is the actor and art department showing me a range of textured performances.
The art is in the idea and the curation.
ACCESSIBLE PROJECTS
TUTT JONES - DAWN OF AI - 2023
Photoshop Generative Fill > After Effects
https://www.daffylondon.com/portfolio/manic_episode-1
TUTT JONES - AI TAROT DECK - 2023
sketch > LCM painter > Photoshop > Magnific > Photoshop
https://vimeo.com/898665983
https://vimeo.com/911354602
sketches to IG filter - Meta Spark Studio
https://vimeo.com/906589094
THE PLACE WHERE EVERYTHING BEGINS AND ENDS - 2025
A film by Juan Pablo Caballero
Daffy London pushed his all new VFX / AI pipeline to assist in the dream of the impossible shot.
PASSWORDED PROJECTS
D.A.A. - Branding Development Reel - Dec 2025
Photoshop > Firefly
https://vimeo.com/1038793174
TPWEBAE - Suit Development - Jan 2025
Photoshop > Maya > TurboSquid > Photoshop > Firefly > Maya / Photoshop
https://vimeo.com/1043302664
D.A.A. - VFX, AI and FILMMAKING COURSES - COMING SOON
I'm the Creative Director of the Department of Digital Arts and Animation at NUST in Namibia. As well as building courses in scriptwriting, 2D animation and 3D animation, I'll be running a focussed 2 months on the new play between VFX, A.I. and filmmaking. Generating works which can be claimed as original, using new powerful engines which make it easy to appear to be cheating.
A.I. PRINCIPLES - COMING SOON
Here I will talk about my feelings towards AI, from a censorship, ethics, ecological and appropriation standpoint.
How I work, and why I choose to feel OK standing by my AI creation.
A.I. REEL - COMING SOON
I'm working on an A.I. Reel featuring the following
MANIC EPISODE - generative
TAROT - 4 step creation
STONER.TV - logo creation
TUTT.TV - ideation
TOM LA VR - matte painting
TENDER GREASE
PUPPET CLUB
RETRO ACTIVE CONCEPT DEV
ILMGIF
D.A.A. - launching Jan 2025
TPWEBAE - shot building / cgi control - in development
with future additions...
MHD - in development
RUM RUNNER - in development
NAYA IN MAKOKO - in development
LITTLE RED - in development
WOW - in development