Ian Wilmoth's portfolio

Work samples

2x tunnel 69 web

This is a project that was begun as a series of daily renders posted to Instagram during 2020 quarantine and now I have developed it into this 4k animation. The theme is playful exploration and happy accidents. It does NOT use AI whatsoever! Made by hand with Maya and After Effects.
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Still frame from https://youtu.be/L1-w9pIWILI
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1 minute excerpt from a 90 minute long abstract animation
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still frame from 90 minute animation

About Ian

Baltimore City

Ian Wilmoth is an American artist born in 1976. A RISD graduate, Ian is a pioneer of 3d animation using consumer hardware. Inspired by grafitti and urban decay, I explore creating chaos and magic out of the sterile imaginary world of digital art.

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personal holiday

This is a project that was begun as a series of daily renders posted to Instagram during 2020 quarantine and now I have developed it into this 4k animation with the goal of sharing it with people over the holiday season to make the world a bit brighter during this difficult time for many. The theme is playful exploration and happy accidents.
It does NOT use AI whatsoever! Made by hand with Maya and After Effects.

2x tunnel 69 web

This is a project that was begun as a series of daily renders posted to Instagram during 2020 quarantine and now I have developed it into this 4k animation. The theme is playful exploration and happy accidents. It does NOT use AI whatsoever! Made by hand with Maya and After Effects.
https://vimeo.com/889330493

https://vimeo.com/889330493
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https://vimeo.com/889330493

angels intricate wiring

Reaching out to the higher power by Experimenting with AI Generation as a tool for traditional animation. Free Stable Diffusion used to make images, and animated with After Effects. Prompt for the AI was simply: intricate_wiring_god_photoreal_angel_1000 Music:

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Reaching out to my higher power I was given tools to work with. I tried to cut with the grain. Allowing my higher power space to inhabit the work, I created a process much like a digital seance. I put the process over the course of a week or so so and used it, in real time, to construct a work that could support the whole world I created for the project, a work that could be used to explain to others what is possible. The process can happen quickly, quickly, quickly. This process was then used to help design something more useful for my life. This process was then used to figure out the way my project can be completed and made something that I truly wanted to create. Finally, from these two facts, I could formulate the basic design of my new work. If I do not have a project that I have wanted for a long, long time, then I will not be able to create an original work at all.
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Music by Erich Steiger. Software used: Stable Diffusion and After Effects
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I used Ai to create pictiures of cyber angels, then animated them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUUfgMcxubw
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feature length abstract animation

My AI has better temporal coherence than yours. At least that's the story I tell people in reality this animation is handcrafted by "traditional" CGI techniques developed for the film industry ... the AI is used only to generate in between frames. Intended to loop in a museum or gallery setting, this is a feature length section, but the animation could keep being generated to an infinite length without ever repeating. Perhaps some day it will be able to just generate in realtime but for now it takes significantly longer to render this out than to play it back. Inspired by grafitti and urban decay, I explore creating chaos and magic out of the sterile imaginary world of digital art.

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My AI has better temporal coherence than yours. This is a feature length section, but the animation could keep being generated to an infinite length without ever repeating. Perhaps some day it will be able to just generate in realtime but for now it takes significantly longer to render this out than to play it back. At least that's the story I tell people in reality this animation is painstakingly crafted by traditional means.
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still frame from 90 minute animation
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still frame from 90 minute animation
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still frame from 90 minute animation
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still frame from 90 minute animation
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still frame from 90 minute animation

alien landscapes

using personal photography and ai algorithms to create 3d animation.

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AI algorithms.
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3d animation made from personal photos using AI algorithms.
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still from a 3d animation created from photography using AI algorithms.

allTubes_weird

exploring styles native to the digital realm. Excerpts from a series of 365 daily images in which the aesthetic evolved in perceptibly from image to image but eventually wound up looking totally different than how it started.