Alexey Choy, a talented media artist and stage designer, faced significant challenges in his creative process. Despite his familiarity with AI tools like Midjourney, Google Colab, and ComfyUI, Alexey found himself slowed down by the complexity of using multiple, disconnected platforms.

His projects were about creating high-quality, cohesive visual content for theaters, operas, and philharmonic performances. It demanded a streamlined, user-friendly solution that could handle the intricate task of generating about 60 detailed illustrations per concert.

Each of these visuals needed to be consistent in style and seamlessly integrated into the performance’s narrative and aesthetics. However, juggling different tools and ensuring consistency across such a large volume of work proved to be a major hurdle.

Phygital+ emerged as the game-changing solution Alexey needed. The platform integrates multiple AI models and tools into a single, intuitive interface, drastically simplifying his workflow.

Phygital+ combines various AI models into one platform, allowing Alexey to effortlessly generate and refine illustrations without the need to switch between tools.

The platform’s features like ControlNet XL and IP-Adapter ensure that all of Alexey’s artwork maintains a consistent style, critical for the visual cohesion required in his projects.

With its node-based interface and cloud processing, Phygital+ enables Alexey to iterate quickly and collaborate easily, significantly accelerating the creative process. This also allows for the seamless integration of AI-generated elements with other design software.

In his work on children’s fairy tales for the philharmonic, Alexey utilizes Phygital+ to create dynamic, generative graphics that were projected onto the stage. These graphics brought stories like The Cat That Walked by Himself, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The Jungle Book, and Mary Poppins to life, ensuring that the visuals were not just static images but integral parts of the performance's narrative structure. The platform allows Alexey to generate entire landscapes, refine them, and maintain stylistic consistency across various elements, even when transitioning between different stories.

Alexey begins by generating a landscape or a character using Stable Diffusion. Sometimes, he creates the entire scene at once, while other times, he generates smaller parts and then refines them.

After generating the landscape, he uses the Upscale tool to improve the image quality.

He then moves to Photoshop, where he adds different parts of the location in layers. These parts are created using Inpainting XL in Phygital+, which helps fill in gaps and add details. For example, you can see here how Rikki-Tiki-Tavi sits in the same place, but on a different landscape.

For characters and their elements, he either collaborates with an illustrator or generates them using AI tools. Most of the time, both characters and landscapes are created in Stable Diffusion and Midjourney within Phygital+.

The convenience of such a working interface in Phygital+ is that you can simultaneously interact with all available neural networks. And you can work with them in a complex and sequential way, building chains of tools application with the help of special blocks – nodes. So forget about separate registration in all AI services and tools and tedious switching between different applications or windows. All work happens in one window.

Alexey has to be careful about where he places key elements on the background or landscape due to architectural features, like the curves of a stage in a concert hall.

Key characters and landscape elements need to be placed in specific areas to avoid clashes with the scene's structure.

To ensure consistency, he generates characters via Midjourney in Phygital+, which makes the process smoother.

For a consistent artistic style across different tales, Alexey relies heavily on the Inpainting XL. With Phygital+, he can seamlessly transition from one tale to another, ensuring that each visual element aligns perfectly with the story’s dramatic arc while fitting naturally into the physical space of the performance.

Phygital+ became an essential part of Alexey's workflow, particularly in the stages of prototyping, sketching, and texturing. To achieve consistency in style, Alexey uses DreamBooth to train his AI models in Phygital+ and generate multiple textures and then imports them in TouchDesigner, where they become audio-reactive, meaning they change based on sound, creating unique visual effects.

Phygital+ significantly enhanced Alexey’s creative process, reducing what used to take weeks into just a matter of days. For instance, during a recent opera concert, Alexey needed to create around 600 textures — a task that, thanks to Phygital+, was completed in just a couple of days.

By integrating Phygital+ into his workflow, Alexey not only sped up his projects but also widened his artistic possibilities. The platform’s ability to harmonize diverse AI technologies into a single, user-friendly interface transformed complex, time-consuming tasks into streamlined processes. This has allowed Alexey to focus more on the creative aspects of his work, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in audiovisual art and setting a new standard for efficiency and innovation in content creation.