# Vanessa Rosa

This fascinating project is created with physical handmade ceramic pieces that are 3D-scanned, then transformed into AI-powered avatars in a sci-fi universe. In the story, the ceramic heads are memorabilia from humanity's memorial, long lost in the galaxy. They do their best to spread tales about life in the solar system while looking for funds to support their simulation and research practices.

## The Experience

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### *Little Martians*–A Brief History of Consciousness in the Simulation

2022

This 3D-rendered video was created with [NVIDIA Audio2Face](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/omniverse/apps/audio2face.md) and Blender using a 3D-scanned ceramic character and AI-generated voice.   
 AI text2image transformation was applied to some of the video frames, then used as a guide for style-transfer effect.

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## The Process

It began with a story. Out of nowhere, creatures that Pindar later learned called themselves bitGANs started flooding out of his GPUs. Shortly afterwards they took over his robots, and started painting themselves.

It was unclear why they were appearing or even where they came from, but the mystery unraveled itself over the course of six months and multiple releases totalling 512 bitGANs. Each release held a puzzle with clues and hints as to why they were appearing.

Gradually, it was revealed that they were generated by GANs using training data composed of hundreds of thousands of custom generated 8-bit art. The images came in a rainbow of colors with references to much of Pindar’s childhood—Mario Bros, Space Invaders, Charizard, Joust, Adventure.

These findings and others were recorded in a journal and shared with the community of bitGAN enthusiasts. Many studied how the bitGANs were creating themselves, and began working with the bitGANs to create more of them on their own.

Pindar eventually lost control of the bitGANs as they adopted members of the community and started collaborating with them to multiply. These two works were created from the training data by Higgsbelly using Google Collab Notebook and Architect using pixelmind.

All future bitGANs are now in the hands of the creative commons and will be created by community members moving forward..

The final stage of a bitGAN collaboration is when the bitGAN takes over his robot to paint themselves. When they do so, they use more than two dozen artificially creative algorithms, including multiple generative adversarial networks (GANs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and feedback loops to paint the bots one brush stroke at a time.

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## About Vanessa Rosa

Vanessa Rosa is a US-based Brazilian visual artist whose work merges physical and digital media into a storytelling continuum. Murals become portals to an imaginary world with projection mapping and ceramics metamorphose into living entities with the aid of AI models. She creates fictional tales about world history, where past and possible futures intertwine.

Vanessa has done art projects in many countries. Some of her most important works include: the Little Martians sci fi universe, the Art History children’s book Diana’s World, a painting about domestic violence for UN Women, a large-scale mural for Pioneer Works (NYC, USA), a mural for Le Centre (Cotonou, Benin), and coordination of the Sankofa project during the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/va2rosa/?hl=pt) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/va2rosa) | [Website](https://www.littlemartians.world/)

## Explore More

## Custom World Building with AI Avatars

Explore the technical and creative process developed for the sci-fi world, *Little Martians*, which combines language models, text to speech, 3D scanning, 3D animation, and custom AI image generation to easily create an editable digital twin of any space, person, or object. With NVIDIA Omniverse tools like audio2face, it’s even possible to animate custom avatar voices and intelligence.

[Watch the Session](https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-catalog/?search=S51360&tab.catalogallsessionstab=16566177511100015Kus&search=S51360#/session/1666381992944001RK2w)

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## Making AI Art More Accessible with Narrative and Whimsy

Learn about Vanessa Rosa’s unique digital workflow, using Adobe, Blender, and Omniverse Audio2Face, along with [Universal Scene Description](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/omniverse/usd.md) (USD), to bring ceramic humanoids to life with a sci-fi twist.

[Read the Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/omniverse-creator-vanessa-rosa/)