Tasha Caufield: AI Filmmaker Interview (How I Generate It - Episode 2)

In this episode, I talk to Tasha Caufield, a writer and filmmaker who uses AI to tell stories about cultural icons, forgotten historic moments, and the world of her own imagination. We chat about her journey into AI, the motivation behind the types of stories she chooses to tell, and of course, how she generates it. ⬇️ LINKS & CHAPTERS BELOW
✅ CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:35 Interview begins
00:59 How Tasha got into AI
09:41 "Ugly People" and Brooding Men in Midjourney
11:35 Consistent characters with FaceFusion and CREF
15:59 Lip Sync for cinematic scenes vs corporate
19:44 Tasha's go-to image generator
26:13 Holding a mirror up to society
33:03 Chasing views vs chasing dreams
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🍿 Watch Tasha's movies mentioned in this interview:
The Phenomenal Woman: A Maya Angelou Biopic Trailer
• The Phenomenal Woman: ...
Playing on Defense: The Rise of John McAfee
• Playing on Defense: Th...
GRIOT: The Greatest Story (Dave Chappelle) Ever (Re)Told // The Adventures of Iceberg Slim
• GRIOT: The Greatest St...
Hangman (based on Tasha's fiction)
• AI FEATURE FILM | Hang...
And here's the Grand Theft Auto movie I made.... 18 years ago (how can that be?)
• Blind Date: A Grand Th...
My tutorial on using --cref for consistent characters in Midjourney/Pika/Runway
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[@theseanwardshow]

Tasha you are one of the most inspiring figures in art right now. I loved hearing about your process, philosophies, and motivations. Thank you for all of this!!!

[@TashaCaufield]

Aw, thanks, Sean. You inspire me, as well! 💫

[@PZF-AI]

What a fantastic, fun, insightful conversation! Thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@matten_zero]

26:49-26:59 preach!

[@TashaCaufield]

Fun interview! I thought your tutorials were 🔥, but your interviewing skills are also top notch! Dick Cavett level 👌🏽... Thanks for the opportunity to share my approach to AI filmmaking, and hopefully something in here helps someone. Keep up the great work! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@PZF-AI]

This was a fantastic conversation! Great to hear more about your background, your approach to your writing and filmmaking, and I loved your comments on fame vs creating for the love of it!

[@matten_zero]

Thank you for sharing your story. Feeling very inspired. We are defying the gate keeping and exploitative behavior in established institutions of art.

[@onesocialunited]

More of these! Great to learn about ​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Tasha ; she reflects how AI tools can empower storytelling. She's an example of how AI enables important voices like Tasha's to bring their vision to life! We need more stories that have depth of heart. It reminds us how AI is just another tool that transforms workflow but still requires human direction and storytelling. AI will only become more and more refined, and artists like Tasha are important at this juncture in demonstrating best practices in utilizing AI tools that serve the artist, not steal our imagination and the struggles that make us creative. Yes, there will be a lot more crappy, soulless AI content and more expectation for push-button art, but like all disruptions, it will be creatives like Tasha who use AI, rather than AI using us. Just like all mechanistic science, AI can’t create something out of nothing; it exploits, hacks, and replicates. AI will be no different, and it will be creatives like Tasha who understand that AI brings new tools and still requires the human touch. AI will never have the heart and soul where real stories are born; those live in our human hearts. We will deal with AI like we deal with entities, like ancient shamans dealt with entities. We may get what we want from them, but not always in the way we thought. ❤

[@aivideoschool]

Couldn't agree more, thank you for writing this!

[@rianneAI]

Super interesting and helpful 🙏

[@aivideoschool]

Thank you for listening, glad it was helpful!

[@cheneffective1983]

Amazing podcast!!!! Tasha very talented😃🙌 and yes not easy to make ugly humans with ai haha

[@TashaCaufield]

Tee hee. Thanks, Chen ☺️