Creating with AI in Generative Art & Visual Effects — ATARA

ATARA, aka Johannes Saam, is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist.

With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art, and most recently as co-founder of a new NFT collection ~ DALL-E Punks.

Reimagining the iconic CryptoPunks through a visual AI engine stack to create a new interpretation, reflecting the traits of the originals, such as hoodies, cigarette and eye patch ~ only that each image is now totally unique, and the eye patch prompts turned into pirates.

In this episode we talk about his visual effects career in the film industry, exploring creativity through coding, mathematics and technology, the latest from AI generative platforms such as DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and we go behind the scenes for the creation of DALL-E Punks.

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