It's pretty crazy how well LOTR fits with Jim Henson's artistic style. Even though the Jackson' movies are amazing, I am pretty sure an 80s adaptation of Tolkien's books would have completely changed our childhood
big movies back then had an average budget of $30 million dollars, which equates to what it is now the $250 million dollars big blockbuster movie that has to cost that not only for inflation but for destroying and rebuilding sets and ridiculous actors' salaries, stuff that wasn't the norm back then. A LOTR trilogy donde by Ridley Scott, Verhooven or a big time 80s director back then with the same budget Jackson had for each movie (around $90 million per movie), would have been the absolute amazement.
When you say "for good", do you mean "permanently", or "for the better"? I think you meant "for the better", but the usual meaning of "for good" is "permanently", which would be redundant when talking about past events, especially as long ago as the 1980s.
To be honest.... seeing this pictures makes it feel like some of them is rather of the real characters while as the movies are solely hollywoodizations of of them. Kind of like how real historical events being made into triple a movies. It truy makes some of these pictures so incredibly intriguing to watch.
Isn't an amazing fact that Christopher Lee will always be Saruman in any LOTR adaptation that could've been ever made throughout cinema history since the beginning of sounding movies? Not even AI can ignore his badassery
It would’ve been incredible to see what they could’ve done with it. I can only imagine the giant sets, 1000s of extras, latex masks, matte paintings, animatronics, synth music, and puppets. This video is fantastic and gives us a taste of what could’ve been.
What's funny is, how much of the Jackson films relied on SFX that was entirely available in the 1980s. Forced perspective filming, miniatures, matte painting backdrops, practical sets and costuming and prosthetics. And the CGI was really only used for the big wide sweeping battle scenes and the large monsters like the Trolls, ents and mumakil. All of which would have been possible to do in the 80s, it just would have been insanely expensive or difficult or both. I mean look at what either Henson or Lucasfilm was able to do to get an idea.
Also, "giant sets, 1000s of extras, latex masks, matte paintings, animatronics, synth music and puppets" look at the behind the scenes of the films. Minus the syth music, that was all used in the actual movies. People focus on the CGI, and don't even notice how little was actually used, relatively speaking. Especially compared to SFX heavy films now. Or even some of its contemporaries (looking at you, Attack of the Clones).
Amazing!! As a child of the 1980s, the aesthetic, lighting, hair/makeup, costume design, etc is bang-on. Eerily so. And so too the music. You sent me reeling into nostalgia for a movie that never existed. Well done!
JRR Tolkien's son Christopher made little secret of his dislike of Jackson's take on Frodo and the Quest for the Ring. “They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25,” said Tolkien. He believed that a visual, on-screen representation of the narrative could never convey the nuanced philosophy, beautifully crafted language, and spiritual themes of the written work - and to some extent at least, he was correct.
Seeing the members of the Fellowship is disturbing, because the AI's clearly drawing _mostly_ from the Jackson movies' actors, but they're off just enough to put them in the uncanny valley. And then there's Legolas, who is just Geralt of Rivia.
Damn this looks identical to the old book illustrations. Not to discount the LOTR trilogy, which was amazing, but I feel this looks more like how Tolkien pictured it in his head
As if the original trilogy wasn't good enough? you fan boys are never satisfied. IMO these look terrible aside from the few ones that look the same but just different actors. Most of these look like muppets. These would look ridiculous on film. In fact you are a muppet.
I would love too see this fully animated.. but there flaws hands of course. but the "Faces" bother me the most there the same Face Shape like a boxy shape same parted eyes and eye brows.. who inspired the A.I to adopt that look wonder if that what the human creator looks like .
I completely agree, when I was younger I always imagined that the quality of fantasy films would advance over time, then came rings of power, willow 2022,Dungeons & Dragons2023 and many others kkkk I think I was mistaken
Watching these slideshows is the modern equivalent of spending an hour in the video store in the 90s and absorbing the pictures on the back of the VHS's or waiting minutes for one pornographic image to download on the early internet. I like this innocence of waiting, feels like something's coming
0:58 Interestingly enough, Frodo is described as having a "cleft chin" in the books. So, this depiction of him may actually be a bit more faithful to the source material.
As people get tired of over the top cgi ridden messes that modern hollywood seems to be full of, i can see more stylistic movies like this being made. I know movies like lighthouse kept the black and white aesthetic but i can see movies with certain stylistic choices being more popular. Imagine a modern 80s dark fantasy, a modern black and white silent film, a 1930-1940s noir, etc. All purposefully made to look from their respective eras but with modern storylines and actors. I think it would be pretty cool
The hobbit definitely should have been made with this aesthetic but fast paced, brighter, and a Howard shore score. This aesthetic fits the paintings of those two brothers.
This is so cool, it gives me vibes of a LOTR theatrical production, and just how well that could look, yes ik ab the musical and its a shame that it never took off :(
Ah, yes, I remember when this movie came out in 1982. Me and my friends used to play all the evening, throwing spells with the garden hose and pretending that a donut was the coveted Ring of Power. A friend used to brought with him his Lords Of Rings action figures, and by Christmas that year I asked Santa for Saruman's Castle. I was very excited, but my parents didn't have too much money, so they bought me a copy of Aragorn's sword. I didn't mind, I keep it until this day.
I had all those action figures! I also had a Shire playset, a Shelob's Lair playset complete with Shelob, a Mines of Moria playset and a Mount Doom playset! Those were some good times!
I have an idea which has been bugging me all night at work. The Neighborhood of Make-believe as an epic 80's fantasy movie. Hear me out. The Neighborhood of Make-believe shares a lot of stuff with say... He-man and Eternia, or even Dark Souls. You've got a castle with a monarchy who are kinda crazy. You've got a world tree guarded by a talking owl and cat, you've got an antiquated rotating museum inhabited by a witch in red, you've got a sentient trolley car. It works, and I wanna see it please.
Modern art's a joke. There are a few gems here and there but this AI art is infinitely better than an artist's vomit on a canvas that's supposedly worth millions.
Just think how good AI is now. It can write a college essay with any prompt you give it. It can generate art and photoreal imagery. If we fast forward 2 decades it will likely be capable of animation and moving images and have editing capabilities and rapid self evaluation abilities. Eventually we will just be able to ask AI to make us entire movies with as much input as we want to give it. "Make Star Wars episode 10 in the style of Steven Spielber in his prime with practical looking effects and make it high quality as judged by a human" Then it renders a new amazing star wars movie in seconds. Well, actually...Intellectual properties would probably be blocked or still owned. But we could make some cool knockoffs
If you can get this far, all you need is Unreal Editor 5 to create a feature film. And that is what I am going to do with my original stories. Thanks for pointing out Midjourney.
Can anyone describe the general steps involved in creating these images? What baselines or images do you input into the program? What parameters do you set? And what rules are roughly applied to make this happen?
If they ever retell the LOTR story in live action i want it to look completely different from the PJ film (who i love) I want it to have an entirely different style or i dont want it at all.
Yes it seems the AI has a really hard time to draw hands correctly which is interesting because drawing a hand realistically is actually one of the hardest part of he body to draw.
Oooo….imagine LOTR in the theme of Time Bandits/Legend/Conan the Barbarian. A balrog in the thematic vein of the Tim Curry’s Prince of Darkness would probably be the rival to do Justice for Peter Jackson’s LOTR (extended version only and always, of course)
Me before this video: You can't improve on the Peter Jackson Lord of The Rings! Me after this video: I was so very wrong. I love this! This is the best "AI does 80's Dark Fantasy" video I've seen so far.
Honestly as a movie concept this is better than most if not all of what comes out of Hollywood. Why can’t this be done on 80s style? How much would it cost and how many people would it take?
It's pretty crazy how well LOTR fits with Jim Henson's artistic style. Even though the Jackson' movies are amazing, I am pretty sure an 80s adaptation of Tolkien's books would have completely changed our childhood
big movies back then had an average budget of $30 million dollars, which equates to what it is now the $250 million dollars big blockbuster movie that has to cost that not only for inflation but for destroying and rebuilding sets and ridiculous actors' salaries, stuff that wasn't the norm back then. A LOTR trilogy donde by Ridley Scott, Verhooven or a big time 80s director back then with the same budget Jackson had for each movie (around $90 million per movie), would have been the absolute amazement.
The way they can't draw hands cryptic like a 6 finger Nephilim or something.. most of there faces look the same shape of the faces that is .
When you say "for good", do you mean "permanently", or "for the better"? I think you meant "for the better", but the usual meaning of "for good" is "permanently", which would be redundant when talking about past events, especially as long ago as the 1980s.
Jacksons movies are not masterpieces
You should try reading the books they're a bit different to the films
To be honest.... seeing this pictures makes it feel like some of them is rather of the real characters while as the movies are solely hollywoodizations of of them. Kind of like how real historical events being made into triple a movies. It truy makes some of these pictures so incredibly intriguing to watch.
If you want to know what 80 lotr would have looked like watch Excalibur, the sets and costumes were designed for Bormans unmade version
I love how Saruman is still portrayed by Christopher Lee lol
Isn't an amazing fact that Christopher Lee will always be Saruman in any LOTR adaptation that could've been ever made throughout cinema history since the beginning of sounding movies? Not even AI can ignore his badassery
He had the right look and the pedigree.
yeah, 'cause that's totally what a 'fact' is 🤦🏻♂️
The Tower being an extruding iris of the Eye is insanely cool as a concept and visual
It would’ve been incredible to see what they could’ve done with it. I can only imagine the giant sets, 1000s of extras, latex masks, matte paintings, animatronics, synth music, and puppets. This video is fantastic and gives us a taste of what could’ve been.
There is a reason they did not try, money, it was too expensive to film before CGI, I would rather have seen the sequel to the 78 Cartoon
What's funny is, how much of the Jackson films relied on SFX that was entirely available in the 1980s. Forced perspective filming, miniatures, matte painting backdrops, practical sets and costuming and prosthetics.
And the CGI was really only used for the big wide sweeping battle scenes and the large monsters like the Trolls, ents and mumakil.
All of which would have been possible to do in the 80s, it just would have been insanely expensive or difficult or both.
I mean look at what either Henson or Lucasfilm was able to do to get an idea.
Also, "giant sets, 1000s of extras, latex masks, matte paintings, animatronics, synth music and puppets" look at the behind the scenes of the films. Minus the syth music, that was all used in the actual movies. People focus on the CGI, and don't even notice how little was actually used, relatively speaking. Especially compared to SFX heavy films now. Or even some of its contemporaries (looking at you, Attack of the Clones).
Amazing!! As a child of the 1980s, the aesthetic, lighting, hair/makeup, costume design, etc is bang-on. Eerily so. And so too the music. You sent me reeling into nostalgia for a movie that never existed. Well done!
Seeing Legolas reminds me of Henry Cavill as Witcher and that's just amazing
JRR Tolkien's son Christopher made little secret of his dislike of Jackson's take on Frodo and the Quest for the Ring. “They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25,” said Tolkien. He believed that a visual, on-screen representation of the narrative could never convey the nuanced philosophy, beautifully crafted language, and spiritual themes of the written work - and to some extent at least, he was correct.
Seeing the members of the Fellowship is disturbing, because the AI's clearly drawing _mostly_ from the Jackson movies' actors, but they're off just enough to put them in the uncanny valley. And then there's Legolas, who is just Geralt of Rivia.
EYE OF SAURON! Looks amazing. How it’s like a blade going through the ring but makes an eye.
Not sure why I’ve been getting so many dark 80’s fantasy re-imagine movies concept’s lately but I’m beyond excited for more!!
Damn this looks identical to the old book illustrations. Not to discount the LOTR trilogy, which was amazing, but I feel this looks more like how Tolkien pictured it in his head
Gandalf with those extra wizard fingers
01:55 Even in the 80s they will fine away to have Christopher Lee playing as Saruman.
In an alternate universe, Ralph Bakshi made a movie instead of an animated one. And this happened!
This is a genius use of midjourney
Many of these LOTRs AI character renders are almost exactly like our actors from Peter Jackson’s masterpiece. Uncanny!
this is what LOTR fans truly deserve.
As if the original trilogy wasn't good enough? you fan boys are never satisfied. IMO these look terrible aside from the few ones that look the same but just different actors. Most of these look like muppets. These would look ridiculous on film. In fact you are a muppet.
@@artvandalay13 Muppets are awesome. That's a clue that you will be alone and jacking it later tonight. Your opinion is wrong btw.
I would love too see this fully animated.. but there flaws hands of course. but the "Faces" bother me the most there the same Face Shape like a boxy shape same parted eyes and eye brows.. who inspired the A.I to adopt that look wonder if that what the human creator looks like .
@@joezar33 We *did* get a fully animated LOTR in the 80s and it was.............not good.
I completely agree, when I was younger I always imagined that the quality of fantasy films would advance over time, then came rings of power, willow 2022,Dungeons & Dragons2023 and many others kkkk I think I was mistaken
Dude, I'm obssesed with this music and art, it's pretty damn cool!
P.S: Next the classic AKIRA please!
Everyone having that gigachad jaw, even Frodo.
You, sir, just earned a new subscriber.
Your music is magical!
Watching these slideshows is the modern equivalent of spending an hour in the video store in the 90s and absorbing the pictures on the back of the VHS's or waiting minutes for one pornographic image to download on the early internet. I like this innocence of waiting, feels like something's coming
Imagine showing these to someone in the 1980’s
Wow actually LotR fits so well with this kind of artstyle, I'd love to see a new adaptation...
No 2022 has no LotR adaptation.
This actually looks very good
I love how aragorn is still just vigo mortensen, but with a bigger head! LMAO.
In this version, Frodo would be called Frodo of the Eleven Fingers.
If you all love dark fantasy you need to watch Excalibur. It's a dark fantasy masterpiece and you'll bee hooked from the opening credits.
1:27 it’s him. It’s the tree.
1:56 cool looking Saruman , ah yes.. *hands* AI's worst enemy
It does look weird but to be fair I think he's holding his orb with both hands
This video and audio was more enjoyable than every second of ROP. Has a lot of 80s D&D and AD&D in there too
man i wish someone made a 1980’s looking dark fantasy film
Just watch Excalibur. Its a dark fantasy masterpiece.
@@tTantPisForFrance Or Willow
@@tTantPisForFrance Or The Dark Crystal.
yap, Krull style or something, with good music and actors, would be great
Aragorn: Nothing changed.
That was perfect. lol
0:58 Interestingly enough, Frodo is described as having a "cleft chin" in the books. So, this depiction of him may actually be a bit more faithful to the source material.
As people get tired of over the top cgi ridden messes that modern hollywood seems to be full of, i can see more stylistic movies like this being made. I know movies like lighthouse kept the black and white aesthetic but i can see movies with certain stylistic choices being more popular. Imagine a modern 80s dark fantasy, a modern black and white silent film, a 1930-1940s noir, etc. All purposefully made to look from their respective eras but with modern storylines and actors. I think it would be pretty cool
I love how Shelob and Treebeard look like something out of "The Neverending Story."
Legolas in this also looks much cooler than Orlando Bloom.
These AI videos are very cool, have you considered doing something in the style of an 80’s horror movie. I think the result would be interesting too
The hobbit definitely should have been made with this aesthetic but fast paced, brighter, and a Howard shore score. This aesthetic fits the paintings of those two brothers.
I would watch this. Looks
Awesome.
Make Star Wars a Dark Fantasy film
This is so cool, it gives me vibes of a LOTR theatrical production, and just how well that could look, yes ik ab the musical and its a shame that it never took off :(
Ah, yes, I remember when this movie came out in 1982. Me and my friends used to play all the evening, throwing spells with the garden hose and pretending that a donut was the coveted Ring of Power. A friend used to brought with him his Lords Of Rings action figures, and by Christmas that year I asked Santa for Saruman's Castle. I was very excited, but my parents didn't have too much money, so they bought me a copy of Aragorn's sword. I didn't mind, I keep it until this day.
Are you sure that happened?
I had all those action figures! I also had a Shire playset, a Shelob's Lair playset complete with Shelob, a Mines of Moria playset and a Mount Doom playset! Those were some good times!
I love your music, whit the images it's making it even more mystical, the ambience is just amazing !
I want this to happen. All of it. Along with the 8 fingered characters...
I have an idea which has been bugging me all night at work.
The Neighborhood of Make-believe as an epic 80's fantasy movie.
Hear me out.
The Neighborhood of Make-believe shares a lot of stuff with say... He-man and Eternia, or even Dark Souls.
You've got a castle with a monarchy who are kinda crazy.
You've got a world tree guarded by a talking owl and cat, you've got an antiquated rotating museum inhabited by a witch in red, you've got a sentient trolley car.
It works, and I wanna see it please.
That sounds awesome
We all going too ignore the flaws ? Hands of course but the Faces are the same style Boxy shape same parted eyes and eye brows that needs to improve
Amazing music in the background, besides the pictures
Love that Shelob looks cthulien
Well damn. Now I wish I lived in a world where Peter Jackson’s trilogy was just a remake to this trilogy.
While I hate AI art and I feel that it is setting a really bad precedent, this is neat. I really love the music!
Hater
@@Felhek nah, I just like to support artists. AI rendered art threatens independent artists.
Yes it is good to be anti-ai, ai needs to be BANNED, what good has it ever done for anyone, nothing
Modern art's a joke. There are a few gems here and there but this AI art is infinitely better than an artist's vomit on a canvas that's supposedly worth millions.
@@BeedrillYanyan interesting opinion!
This is original music? Nice work! You capture the æsthetic of the accompanying video perfectly!
i just love this style so much, i could watch anything in this style.
Man i would kill to get more movies done in this style. It just looks awesome in every way.
It's kind of surprising this didn't happen. I'd be interested to know if there were any talks in the 80's about making an film adaptation.
Just think how good AI is now. It can write a college essay with any prompt you give it. It can generate art and photoreal imagery. If we fast forward 2 decades it will likely be capable of animation and moving images and have editing capabilities and rapid self evaluation abilities. Eventually we will just be able to ask AI to make us entire movies with as much input as we want to give it. "Make Star Wars episode 10 in the style of Steven Spielber in his prime with practical looking effects and make it high quality as judged by a human" Then it renders a new amazing star wars movie in seconds. Well, actually...Intellectual properties would probably be blocked or still owned. But we could make some cool knockoffs
or even take pics of yourself and others and place them as the characters in the film aswell!
It's amazing the think of the possibilities - judging canon would be a nightmare though!
It's cool that the eye of Sauron is actually in the tower.
If you can get this far, all you need is Unreal Editor 5 to create a feature film. And that is what I am going to do with my original stories. Thanks for pointing out Midjourney.
Your work is exceptional, I really enjoy watching your posts
This is so cool. Im guessing its done with some crazy program. But anyways, its very interesting & cool to see. Well done.
Why do they always have that Polydactylyian fingers, I'm sorry I don't know what it's called
I cannot fathom HOW you have done this. Totally believable. 😮
1:09 "And my comically large spade"
That's so much better, ahh. Such a relief!
Shelob is all kinds of horrifying. So much legs.
Dude, the music...
I’m hooked on these concept art videos!!!!!!!
Cool images and love the music! Is all your music fantasy?
Nope! I try to tailor the music to the videos, but generally I make indie rock music.
0:51 I'm sure ladies would love this version of Gandalf :D
This is AMAZING! Looks better than the Willow TV Series or Blood Origin by a LONG shot!!
Can anyone describe the general steps involved in creating these images? What baselines or images do you input into the program? What parameters do you set? And what rules are roughly applied to make this happen?
Ideas:
Monster House as an 80's fantasy film
Disney's Aladdin as a 80's Fantasy Film
Very cool. Although Gandalf’s fingers are terrifying, he could wear all of the rings on one hand.
Wow, and the music was great
Shelod looks absolutely terrifying, awakens my Arachnophobia with the Lovecraft influence
Lee in his early 60s, perfection.
1:21 I like that and the one after that with the tree face.
If they ever retell the LOTR story in live action i want it to look completely different from the PJ film (who i love) I want it to have an entirely different style or i dont want it at all.
Yes it seems the AI has a really hard time to draw hands correctly which is interesting because drawing a hand realistically is actually one of the hardest part of he body to draw.
An 80's adaptation of LotR would have included Tom Bombadil. With his bright blue jacket and yellow boots.
It won’t be lone before AI is able to create complete alternative versions of movies. I look forward to this day.
How about Harry Potter Films as 1990s Dark Fantasy Films? Just asking that's all!
All of these are spot on.
The Witch King looks a bit off , like he's Hobbit sized. Everything else looks really cool
AI: How many fingers?
Me: Yes!
Fingers, so many Fingers, the 80s must have been crazy
That Shelob is some nightmarish Cthulhu shit.
Bilbo looks like Timothy Dalton! 3:07
Bruh... how did MidJourney know exactly how my brain saw Gollum before the movie came out?
This is better than any director's style. AI should create movies soon.
Great stuff, what software did you use for these?
Oooo….imagine LOTR in the theme of Time Bandits/Legend/Conan the Barbarian. A balrog in the thematic vein of the Tim Curry’s Prince of Darkness would probably be the rival to do Justice for Peter Jackson’s LOTR (extended version only and always, of course)
I love how samwise is basically just samwise
it was so well made in comparing to people who just put some AI generated pics together
Holy Gandalf of the Nine Fingers!
Gandalf has seven fingers on his left hand. What a wizard!
Me before this video: You can't improve on the Peter Jackson Lord of The Rings!
Me after this video: I was so very wrong. I love this! This is the best "AI does 80's Dark Fantasy" video I've seen so far.
Honestly as a movie concept this is better than most if not all of what comes out of Hollywood. Why can’t this be done on 80s style? How much would it cost and how many people would it take?
Pretty accurate looking
Intresting fact the 80's movie Excalibur was suppose to be LOTR but the production couldn't get the funded for such a massive project
Nazgul looks cute actually 🤗