A Time To Grieve
The month of October began with incredibly sad news. Rocky, Jac’s beloved dog, suddenly fell ill, he was diagnosed with Renal Insufficiency. He was treated for many days but his illness advanced until he couldn’t fight it anymore, so he crossed the rainbow bridge the afternoon of the 5th, two days before Jac’s birthday.
Jac was devastated, of course, Rocky was his loyal friend, companion in adventures, amazing walks for 8 years, and because of him Jac met and made many friends, including Geraldine, who appeared in Seditiosa, 69 Année Érotique and will play Paulina in the Crucified Four.
Rocky was cremated and he now rests is in a little urn on top of Jac’s desk, near the monitor.
The family is very, very sad, so are all of Jac’s friends. The mixture of messages he received since then helped him, a lot. The night of the 7th he had an unexpected little birthday party, organized by his son, Erix, who invited some friends, mostly the actresses, who made him feel a lot better.
While he tried to deal with the tremendous loss, he was having a big problem with concentrating in the work, he went to a site he mistakenly joined when he was looking for some music, he was offered a service for 19 per month, but he was charged a whole year, 192, he was pissed. But he has access now so he decided to look at what it had to offer apart from music. There he found that he could generate videos, so he decided to give it a try. And lo and behold, he spent hours creating a bunch of videos inspired on his ideas for The Crucified Four.
So, on his birthday, he spent all day transfixed watching his ideas come to life with very annoying limitations by the system he was using.
The limitations were evident and frustrating. The most frustrating was the impossibility to generate videos with nudity.
After working a little to generate a clip of Taia, the runaway, slave stealing the bread, he realized that he could not bring the same exact character for the next clip, when she’s arrested. While he thought of what to do and figured out the how, he tested the system with a clip of a woman in a cage and this is what he got.
Given the impossibilities of doing whatever he wanted, the way he wanted it and with all the nudity he could muster, he decided that making a film with AI was practically impossible with the means available to him, for now, but he thought that it could be a good way to illustrate his ideas in some sort of storyboard using AI to create shots, not complete scenes, only shots, 3 to 5 seconds long shots. Like the two shots above.
He played with that for hours, figuring out how to direct that thing call AI to come up with the shots he needed and wanted to somehow create a sequence, he had some altercations with AI sometimes, but he managed to get coarse that thing to generate some interesting visuals. In some cases what he manage to get was a big surprise to him, and sometimes the material had some funny and strange things, I defy you to notice the strange and funny thing in the next clip, but most of the time working with AI was completely annoying and frustrating, it required a lot of patience, the kind of patience a Buddhist might have. AI can be a very annoying beast.
He edited a little movie with some of the shots he managed to produced. He tried to get some shots of what he has in mind for the opening sequence of Crucified Four, where you meet the principal characters. Taia, the Slave, Talissa the warrior, Ide, the priestess, Paulina, the wife of the second in comand, Sabina, the empress and the Centurion. Again, I defy you to identify them. Although I don’t think the Centurion is in this clip.
This is the result.
Cruxlover24 Thanks fot the updates, Margot!!! What are the new films you’ll be working on once you finish this one with Danielle? Is she going to be in the next production?
We are still preparing Crucified Four; but as I mentioned before we have other productions in mind and Dani will take part in them all, except for the individual films with Ligia and Mila.
Mila is extremely busy these days. She contacted Jac to wish him a Happy Birthday and to express her sorrow for Jac’s terrible loss. They talked a bit and the impression Jac had was that she’s really, really busy and might not want to commit to work on a film, at least not right now.
In the possible event of having to cast someone else for the role of Ide, he’s thinking of some possibilities. He hopes he doesn’t have to.
Dani and Ligia are totally confirmed, Simonne has also confirmed but has limitations with her time. Geraldine, who will play Paulina is committed too.
The weather is awful right now, it hasn’t stopped raining and it’s cold. Jac says it looks like February. It should go back to the normal for the year soon, or maybe the climate change is really changing everything. Jac has a joke, we were in the middle of winter, then we had two days of spring, two days of summer and we’re back in winter but we February rain.
Our streaming channel is growing, both with films and subscribers.
We still have the three month deal for 25 bucks
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You can also join at the normal rate.
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I’ll have more information about what is going on with our plans soon. In the meantime enjoy the clips.
