A short video (sizzle reel) by Mike Koenigs demonstrating how AI was used to rapidly create a narrated, animated sizzle reel that weaves a subject’s body of work into a story told through architectural imagery (historic and modern). The creator describes feeding the AI an interview and the subject’s work, prompting it to ‘find images and tell this story’ and receiving iconic results (e.g., Taj Mahal, Neuschwanstein) within about 20 minutes.
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This is the first version of a sizzle reel, which I'm not going to play the audio right now, but it's got voice narration, animation. This was made in about 20 minutes. And we fed it your entire body of work, meaning we interviewed you, captured, put all of your work inside it. In the opening statement, which I'll. I'll show here, we came up with the title and subtitled through multiple iterations, your magnum opus, places and spaces that embody your life's greatest meaning and purpose, actually blew my mind with some of the stuff was we didn't actually prompt them. In some of those cases, the prompt was find us images and tell this story through some of the greatest architectural works of history. And what came back was the Taj Mahal and Neuschwanstein. And that, to me, is the amazing part. And then, of course, we honed it with some of the modern legs, you know, amazing projects. And so we weren't going out there and saying, do this. We were saying, you know, here's the idea. Here's what we are wanting to create. Go out and find this for us and create this for us.