Playtime With Bernie was a free-flowing exploration into the integration of AI into the contemporary creative practice, starting from hand-drawn illustrations.
The extracted shapes were subsequently trained in a custom model to extract the langue. The shapes from this were then extracted into a data set was both fascinating in of itself, it could also be used as a raw material in order to sketch out vague outline of characters.
A parametric setup was designed in Houdini and then fed into the Ai trained on on the shapes. After some refinement, the pipeline was able to produce infinite variations or bespoke characters, all with a unique personality.
