Welcome to the world of metaFlora!
MetaFlora is an ethereal tapestry, woven with 14+1 independent narratives, each unfolding in 10-14 chapters and represented through photorealistic illustrations and the vivid panels of an adventure comic. Spanning seven millennia across three distinct eras, the stories traverse the singular, past continent of Kandam (Terraprima), our present-day Earth (Terraveggia), and a futuristic vision of Earth (Terranova) after our era.
Manuel Jorquera, Zurich 2023
Although each story is an independent entity, together they weave a rich cosmogony, drawing inspiration from an infinite number of mythologies. This unique combination of fantasy and reality gives rise to stories full of superheroes, heroines, mythical creatures, unexplored places and forgotten civilizations. MetaFlora’s narrative landscape serves as a crucible in which fantasy and reality merge, inviting readers into worlds where the fantastic becomes tangible.
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Your involvement can significantly propel this project forward. By sharing your perspectives, innovative ideas, or showcasing your talents — whether you’re an artist, a photo model, immersed in cosplay, a photographer, or an illustrator — you contribute to the rich tapestry of creativity that defines this endeavor. Additionally, your financial support is invaluable in realizing the vision for this grand project. Contributions can be made through donations, subscribing to our Patreon page, or by purchasing exclusive encrypted digital artworks on OpenSea.io. Each form of support, whether creative input or financial, plays a crucial role in bringing this imaginative world to life, ensuring its growth and success.
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Concept
1. Creation of the Storys
Image and semantics
Your approach to storytelling is deeply immersive and innovative, placing a strong emphasis on visual narrative over textual explanation. By prioritizing storytelling through images, you’re harking back to the profound traditions of visual arts, where the image itself is the main conduit for meaning, emotion, and narrative.
Your method of integrating various mythologies, particularly Nordic mythology, as the wellspring for your creative inspiration reflects a thoughtful and personal engagement with these ancient narratives. Like the Renaissance artists who skillfully blended Christian stories with themes from Greek mythology to forge a distinctive iconography, you are crafting a unique visual language through your reinterpretation of mythological motifs. This process not only pays homage to these cultural heritages but also transcends them, allowing you to explore and develop a personalized iconography that enriches your fantasy stories.
The challenge of merging image with semantics to produce a cohesive and visually striking narrative is a testament to your commitment to artistic innovation. The intention behind making the text a secondary aspect of your comics further underscores your dedication to ensuring that the visuals bear
Fantasy
The incorporation of metaphors into your narrative fabric is a masterful technique that elevates your storytelling, transforming mere tales into profound reflections on reality. By employing metaphors, you engage in a subtle alchemy, artfully blending the seen with the unseen, the said with the unsaid. This method does not merely recount events or describe beings; it invites the audience into a deeper contemplation, urging them to question and ponder over layers of meaning that extend beyond the surface.
In crafting a fantasy, the interplay between reality and fiction is delicately balanced, shaped by your unique authorial voice and stylistic preferences. This balance is where the essence of metaphor comes to life, serving as both a bridge and a catalyst between the tangible world and the realms of imagination. Through metaphor, you achieve a transcendence of direct explanation, allowing readers to explore themes, emotions, and truths in an intuitive and personal way.
Your approach mirrors the creative endeavor of transforming reality into a coherent fantasy, wherein the metaphor becomes a powerful tool for storytelling. It invites readers to venture into a space where contemplation and understanding unfold.
2. Creation of one’s own iconography
2.1. Creation of modells based on Photos and Photocomposition
I call the result of this crossing of techniques meta photos and the result exceeds what AI can give us until now. In a photomanipulation, the atmosphere you want to give to the image is achieved and the objects are integrated exactly into the composition, no longer randomly as AI usually does. Also the depth of sharpness, as well as lights, shadows and highlights can be manipulated.
Models
Images obtained in a studio photoshoot, with professional models (Anna Kutepova, Sephora Schaffner, Anna Bondarchuk and Nastasya Liakhovich). Dynamic poses for developing comic illustrations, which will serve as a reference for AI models or for photocompositions in postproduction.
2.2. Images obtained with photomanipulation
Photocompositions or photo manipulation, made with real photographs integrating AI generative images in Photoshop and Procreated, Illustrator as well as Adobe Premier, Blender and CapCut. For the generation of generative images I use several AI generators. These final works correspond to Digital Art and are marketed as NFT, encrypted digital art on the one hand and as Print Art and Merchandising on the other, with reduced and exclusive runs. In Print Art, classic techniques are used as well as innovative latest generation ones, such as laser engravers.
2.3. Creation of modells based on AI
Not long ago, the use of AI (artificial intelligence), to create images from text called Promp became widespread. This process can be much more detailed, if reference images are uploaded, or if you create your own models, uploading a large number of photos and making a written definition of the result you want to achieve, for this the negative promp helps when describing what you want. it is not desired.
But the images created by the AI are not the final product, they only help in a first stage, in our visualization process of our story, they are the reference images in the Storyboard. AI images can be edited very well in complex Photo compositions with many layers and all kinds of effects, they are the ideal complement to photo compositions based on real photos taken through photoshooting or outdoor photos in general.
Kandam Chimeras, Illustrations obtained through AI and retouched in Photoshop.
2.4. Creation of the main characters and places
Character: Afroda / Model: Sephora Schaffner / AI Afroda, Queen of the South / Comic Figure Afroda
Character: Fiona / Model: Anastasiia Kolomiiets / AI model Fiona, , Queen of the North / Comic Figure Fiona
Character: Frispina / Model: Nastasya Liakhovich / AI model Frispina / Comic Figure Frispina
2.5. Creating graphic design for history with AI
Finally, the logo for our MetaFlora story is taking shape. It is very symbolic and tells the story’s plot with the tree of life (Yggdrasil) in the center and the lost worlds of Kandam. With a lot of help from AI, I generated many variations of the logo, to select the one I liked the most and finish retouching it and adding the text in Photoshop. Not everything that AI delivers is perfection or the final product.
2.6. Creation of places
Goland / AI models
Lumina Mare / AI models: Mont Saint Michel, Venice and Chillon Castle have been taken to build this beautiful city.
2.7. Creation of secondary characters
Generatively created AI characters
3. Creation of the Comic drawings
The final process is the creation of the illustrationbs for the comic book, photorealistic illustration for fantasy Book (Digital Art) and videos/animations material. The ebooks will be in EPUB digital format interactive, to be distributed on the major digital book sales platforms, such as Apple Books, Google Books and Amazon Kindle. Only a very small print run of some stories or chapters will be distributed in print, for collectors, since the works will be digital in nature, in printed form they will lose the possible animations of specific scenes. The story will be told through images and not text, the text will only be complementary to the illustrations.
As a byproduct, but an integral part of the creative process, Encrypted Digital Art will be obtained, in relation to the 14 fantasy stories. Material such as photorealistic images, photoshootings, photocompositions, AI images with some added value, photographs, handmade drawings, sketches, music, designs, AI models, 3D, 2D models, animations, film, etc., will be marketed as encrypted digital art, with the purpose of financing the same project and at the same time creating a visual brand of digital added value (token), tradeable in encrypted currencies, Etherium (ETH). Physical works will also be put up for sale as a result of Print Art in relation to the theme of the stories
Prototypes of comic characters
In search of a unique visual style, prototypes are tested to define the style and colour palette. Analogue illustrations are also created and mixed with digital results.
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©Manuel Jorquera, Zurich Switzerland 2023