CRYPTOZOIC MINOTAUR

“In a single stroke, the Linnaean classification system wiped monsters off the face of the map. There might still be unknown beasts and fearsome creatures out there, but now they each would have a family, a genus, a species; no matter how strange an animal might be, it was now under the rubric of scientific study and discussion. Thus, the medieval world's monsters and wonders were, one by one, either incorporated into this taxonomy or excluded as myth. The kraken became the genus Architeuthis, the giant squid; the sea serpent became Regalecus glesne, the giant oarfish.”
― Colin Dickey - The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained

This developed over time - a year ago I published the still image, which was derived from another piece a half year earlier. By chance I found the unpuplished one in my piles and published it, then I decided to animate it with one of the new recent animation models, which was Kling 1.6 Standard, from the image model Real Cartoon XL v4.

The previous piece it developed from looked entirely different (because of the noise set high and the model used was SDXL 1.0): AT THE GATEWAY .... and the input image was my analog painting THE MINOTAUR from 1978: THE MINOTAUR.jpg

The Description text for the animated version is this:

Originally a DUPLICATE of a 5 month old creation that used my painting 'The Minotaur' as the seed image.
I ran it with low noise of 10% and 50% prompt. Originally already very surreal, now it turned into a fearsome creature that appears to live off desert travelers that venture too close.
It can be fatal to be too curious!

This was the video prompt used: crawling around and bobbing from right to left in search of imaginary flies, final zoom in on the face and jaws opening
Subsequently, I worked on it some more, as described below.

^{Animated on Nightcafe AI + reverse motion, put together on Microsoft Clipchamp with free music clip 'Whole Hog'.}
The reverse video tool can be found here - it really works great on short clips: https://miniwebtool.com/reverse-video/ - there are also other video tools available on that site. I will be using their tools again in future. The reverse tool particularly for my Nightcafe 10 second animations, so there will be more to come soon.
I think I also mentioned once before that imho Microsoft Clipchamp is a superior video creation tool, and the free version which I use is more than adequate for creating stunning videos, check it out: https://clipchamp.com/en/ - mind you, for this short little clip I didn't have to use any of the bells and whistles available, other than conveniently chosing one of their free music clips, which I simply cut to size to fit the 20 second length.

A final note: Check out my Nightcafe page, the link is a referral link also. If you join, which is absolutely free, and you publish your creations, we both receive bonus points. So click here: https://nightcafe.art/u/TheMystic