# 07 Creating with AI in Generative Art & Visual Effects — ATARA

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**Published on:** 2022-11-30
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@ufoclub/07-creating-with-ai-in-generative-art-visual-effects-atara

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UFO is a place for revolutionary ideas. A podcast where artists, musicians and web3 builders talk about the future. Hosted by Nick Hollins and produced by Apollo.Subscribe to UFOiTunes • Spotify • Everywhere • Lens • RSSShow notesATARA, aka Johannes Saam, is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist. With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art, and most recently as co-founder of a new NFT collection ~ DALL-E Punks. Reimagining the iconic CryptoPunks through a visual AI engine stack to create a new interpretation, reflecting the traits of the original, such as hoodies, cigarette and eye patch ~ only that each image is now totally unique, and the eye patch prompts turned into pirates. In this episode, we talk about his visual effects career in the film industry, exploring creativity through coding, mathematics and technology, the latest from AI generative platforms such as DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and we go behind the scenes for the creation of DALL-E Punks.Links ATARA | web3 technologist | vfx @atara_xyz IT'S HAPPENING! On 2/22/22 the first generative art collection is hitting @GeneticChain Preview it at atara.xyz and enjoy the calming and trippy shapes! #genart #ataraxyz #nftart #collection #letsgo 99 5:29 PM • Jan 31, 2022 Pinar Demirdag @pinar_demirdag My latest article is written with Academy Award-winning VFX artist @atara_xyz about the VFX pipeline embracing generative A.I. Featuring works from @CorridorDigital @coin_artist @Riabovitchev @Seyhan_Lee #generativeart #generativeai #AIart pinar-seyhan-demirdag.medium.com/life-after-rea… 7 11:54 AM • Nov 22, 2022 A T A R A |NFT|VFX|WEB3|METAVERSE|ATARA |NFT|VFX|WEB3|METAVERSE| ARTIST/TECHNOLOGIST/CONSULTANThttps://www.atara.xyzhttps://www.dunkz.xyz/ https://openai.com/dall-e-2/Stable Diffusion Public Release - Stability AIWe are delighted to announce the public release of Stable Diffusion and the launch of DreamStudio Lite.https://stability.aihttps://www.midjourney.com/ RTFKT @RTFKT RTFKT x Nike AR Hoodie 4,447 2:23 PM • Jul 15, 2022 SponsorsZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started today at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz -- We’re starting a club. Collect your UFO Genesis Pass ~ OpenSea Follow UFO on Lens, Twitter, Instagram

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