Domily(Shuling Long) is a designer based in China, currently studying Information Experience Design at the RCA. She is interested in telling stories in multi-media and uses narrative language to explore embodiment, humanity, and mortality.
Shuling Long
Super HeroES is a completed comic and animation film I drew, directed, and animated. It's also a methodology, testing the result of making artwork with Artificial Intelligence. It is a composition of the third stage of Blind Mirror - an AI learning project contributed to by 72 artists. This project aims to develop a design methodology for artists to work with AI. By taking contributors' work as the database, the project offers AI generated visual assets for artists to develop their own practice. My work speculates on the possibility of using AI technology as an inspiration tool for individual's practice and documents how it will influence the artists' workflow.
Inspired by Virginia Woolf's fiction The Death of The Moth, this comic focuses on the nature of life circles and explores the essence of life itself. My cinematic illustrations draw you into a story and allow you to experience the journey of the hero.
Animation Film –
“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
comic-page 3
Research about moths.
Previous work about moths.
The AI-generated visuals I used.
Working progress ducumentation.
“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Super HeroES is a completed comic and animation film I drew, directed, and animated. It's also a methodology testing result of making artwork with the AI intelligent.
It tells a story about the life circles of nature and focuses on the issue of mental health problems, especially suicides. By taking you to go through a cinematic illustration collection and animation, to let you experience the hero's story.
Medium:
Comic / Animation
contributor-Qian Feng
Some of the contributors
The Blind Mirror is an AI learning project organized by Domily (Shuling Long) and is in collaboration with 72 artists. This project aims to explore various creative possibilities of combining artificial and human intelligence. By using the life cycle metaphor, the project is divided into three parts, embryo, back feeding, and rebirth.
The work Super HeroES is the methodology testing result of the project Blind Mirror.
Credits:
Wailin Song, Jacky Huang, sissel, Feli, ERRRRRlegedai, Hulu, Duoduo, Chuying Chen, Jixuan Chen, Qianfeng, Ye, CHILLI, chi, YYYe, Yaya, Xu Yingshan, Xintong Zhang, Yunqi Peng(CheapBall), Kabing, mrhsq, Dong Jihe, Sima gonggong, Vigour2, Qian chu, Zhewen Yao，Xiao Shuang, -Rosele-, Qiudao Xiaoshan, Pei Lu, Jiacun Li, A Pangbai, Woshi Xiaowenna, Tengu, Muyoucunhao Feixingyuan, Shi Taiyanga, Yuanche Li, Chen Peipei, Yibao Cheng, Tata, Xianru Wang, Zhou Daxi, Aliza Luo, GODSSTATION, HuaHua, kkcit, Bishui Shanlan, Di, Guan Mengren, Wulili, Claire Song, GAB, Gao Zijing, Ke Peng, Na Li, Qiaoran, Shuxin Che, xDanyang Chen, Zhandou Tiantianzai, Ji, Hongsheng Shao, Jiayi Wang, Liang Xu, Chenlin Zhang, OXOMTP, Junjie Zhang, Domily(Shuling Long).