Good morning Internet!
We’ve got a fleet of shiny new micro-features locked and loaded in the system today. Each is built to turbocharge your story visualization powers.
Here are the hits…
Preset Palace
We’ve added six new art styles to the Preset Palace, complete with an interface redesign to make way for a massive library expansion in the coming months. Each style can render your story text in its own unique way.
RensFlare fuses the drama of Camelot with the painterly stylings of the 1490s, transforming your text from side-quest to The Main Quest.
Supreme64 snaps a grainy black-and-white photograph of each one of your scenes, transporting your storyscape to a pre-colorian era.
DotMatrix combines millions of micro-quadrilaterals into fluid forms to render your storyscape with mathematical precision and beauty.
HyperStructure provokes emotions you didn't even know you had with finely-tuned smooth-lined color patches that draw subjects deep into the psychedelic realm.
ProLink Executive whisks your renderings out of the writer's room and into the corporate boardroom with unapologetic professional sleekness.
Nightwarez shreds your storyscape to pieces then tiedies each tatter into a sunset-soaked florescent fever dream.
Re-Generative Control
Once you’ve rendered all your scenes, you can toggle from Storyboard View to Editor View. Editor View houses a growing array of controls to revise your text, imagery and video 👀
Today, we’ve enabled you to edit both your Scene Text and your Scene Summary. Editing these re-populates your foundational text as well as all your story assets.
Perhaps most transformatively, you can now edit the prompt that controls your image, then re-generate. This bestows immense control over the resulting image and is the first of many fine controls we’re shipping over the coming months.
Story Format 1: Article View
Up until today, the only way to share your work on Lore Machine has been via a Gallery View like this.
Behind the scenes, we have been experimenting with a variety of story formats: comic books, collages…you name it. They all felt a little prescriptive though.
Today, we launch Article View! Now, you can share your storyscape as a permalink containing your text, imagery and soon sound and animation.
Here is a link to an Article View in action, for Jack London’s 1902 short story To Build a Fire.
Story Form Factor 2: Video Slideshow
You can now export your images as an mp4 video slide show. This is a small step towards a bigger multimodal vision in which your images can be brought to life in a range of audiovisual formats!
We’ve got a raft of features coming out over the next few weeks. So stay tuned! Oh and if these tentpole feature announcements aren’t doing it for you by all means jump into The Discord!
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