AI Generated Movie Posters

July 10, 2017 3:18 PM

AI Generated Movie Posters
I built this website to generate movie posters using a neural network. The titles and tag-lines are generated by the AI, everything else is somewhat designed and randomized. Super random, so occasionally offensive.

Role: Creator

posted by OrangeGloves (8 comments total)

This project was posted to MetaFilter by cortex on July 10, 2017: What would you do to gave you? [rooster photo] DOCTOR STRUGGLE

Oh my gosh yes. Yes.
posted by cortex at 3:19 PM on July 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

Hey this is brilliant! Any chance you can make the URL shareable? I think you could do it by stuffing the random number state in the URL when the user rerolls. Clever way you're generating these client-side, btw.
posted by Nelson at 4:40 PM on July 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

Yeah, it generates them client side, but it also uploads the finished poster to the server , so it is actually trivial to make a link to the finished image - I'll add that tonight
posted by OrangeGloves at 5:09 PM on July 10, 2017

I added an image link, it's not the best, but it works :)
posted by OrangeGloves at 8:56 PM on July 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

I am so enthralled by this....

Magnificent!
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:46 AM on July 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

Another suggestion -- if you make an easy way to tweet the images/site, you might possibly get huge on the tweets.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 6:23 AM on July 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

Ah yes, i tried to do this - you would think that it would be easy to set things up so you can just click a button to tweet an image. In this case the image is being generated client side, and as far as I can tell, the api's for both facebook and twitter use meta tags to describe the content, and scrape those screens for the tags. Since the image doesn't exist yet, I can't really tell twitter what image it is. I know there is a way to work around this, but after wasting a bunch of time trying different things I eventually gave up on it.

Any ideas on how to do that are appreciated.
posted by OrangeGloves at 8:38 AM on July 11, 2017

Here's an idea -- can you base the generation off a random seed string that can be passed via URL? So if I tweet http://mickstorm.com/iwuy8o2734, it brings me to the same image every time? That would be good for sharing.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 10:47 AM on July 11, 2017 [2 favorites]