- About 2,100 stills from OpenAI’s DALL·E 3, with Midjourney and Leonardo for some scenes, sharpened with Leonardo’s upscaler.
- About 1,200 moving shots from Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha and Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, five to ten seconds each, at 1280 × 768.
- Faces, armour and crowds drifted from shot to shot, so many takes were needed for each usable second.
War Anthems
Music for history enthusiasts
Rock and metal on the greatest military campaigns of antiquity: the kings and generals who led them, and the battles that decided them.
Born for Glory
From a boyhood under Aristotle at Mieza to his last days at Babylon, sixteen songs follow Alexander the Great across the known world. The Granicus, Issus, Tyre and Gaugamela, the fires of Persepolis and the long march through the Gedrosian desert, told as one epic saga.
- Born For Glory
- Mieza
- Shadow of a King
- The Fall of Thebes
- Granicus (The Beginning)
- End of a King (Battle of Issus)
- Ashes of Tyre
- The Pharaoh's Crown
- At Gaugamela
- A Crown Torn
- Persepolis
- Roxane
- As a King Would Treat a King (Battle of Hydaspes)
- The End of the Road
- Where the Sandstorms Blow
- And Greece Wept
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Hannibal Ante Portas
Eleven songs of the war that brought Hannibal over the Alps and to the very gates of Rome. From the fall of Saguntum through Trebia, Trasimene and Cannae to the last stand at Zama, a rock opera of the struggle between Carthage and Rome.
- The Die Is Cast
- Through the Alpine Peaks
- River of Death
- The Deserter
- Cannae
- Syracuse Is Fallen
- The Sword of Rome
- Metaurus
- The Eagle Flies Over Ilipa
- Ashes Before Dawn
- Zama
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How the videos were made
Every picture and every moving shot in these videos was made with generative AI, scene by scene, from our own written prompts, then cut to the music by hand. The two albums were filmed some six months apart, and the difference between them is the progress of the models in that time.
- DALL·E 3 at first, then, from March, ChatGPT’s new image model: about 1,070 stills that follow the prompts far more closely, in period detail and in composition.
- For the Republican Romans, a Leonardo model of our own, trained on historically accurate images, so that their arms, armour and dress are true to the period.
- Runway’s Gen-4 from April: about 390 shots with steadier people and movement, finished in 4K (4096 × 2304); Kling for the cavalry charges at Cannae.
- Fewer takes, longer usable shots and a far sharper picture.
