dSky.ai is pioneering the art of on-demand, 100% personalized content publishing. Today we announce the launch of our partner program for ACE: the Alchemy Creation Engine™.
dSky's ACE is a suite of tools and frameworks designed to grant superpowers to storytellers & creative professionals, and to empower the consumers of content with their own participative power and creative expression within the structure of the narratives. ACE is designed to extend the reach & impact of all traditional and next-gen media formats: photos, storybooks, short-form videos, music, animations, even feature films and videogames... all deeply customized for each individual consumer.
ACE, at its heart, pulls the content creator one step back from the final work product. Instead of delivering a fixed narrative, photograph, illustration, video, or game… the creator instead now creates the *backbone* of the story, a template of sorts. Call it the meta-narrative.
After that meta-narrative is completed, the author identifies specific assets within the content that are hot-swappable. For instance, a video might have a cast of characters, each of which is defined by a name, a face, and a signature costume.
Those customizable assets are identified with a simple point-and-click procedure. Once they are defined, the CreationEngine searches through the entire body of content (be it story, video, movie or game), and tags that asset throughout the meta-narrative, word for word, frame by frame. Once that tagging process is complete, the content is ready to ship.
Or rather, the content template is now staged to ship. Because instead of simply mastering one “gold disc” or one “print” that ships worldwide, we now have a template that can and will be individually customized for specific delivery to millions of households… and each delivery will be a uniquely different “final cut” of the core story.
On the consumer side, the user selects the meta-narrative, identifies the customizations they would like from the available menu, and uploads simple media definitions of their custom characters & props (these can be pre-stored definitions for future transactions).
...this is all a little theoretical up to this point.
To state the use case pragmatically:
Let’s say you have a favorite movie, such as Beauty and the Beast... but instead of Belle, you would like the classic feature film to star an animated version of your daughter, Eva. Eva is a 12-year old brunette Asian-American, not a 17-year-old caucasian. And instead of Belle’s signature canary yellow dress, you ask that she wear an emerald version, as green happens to be Eva’s favorite color. Finally, for cameos, you ask that Lumiere be given the voice and facial identity of her father, Mrs. Potts that of her mother, and Chip the face and voice of her younger brother, Stan.
All this magic requires is a simple upload of a single clear photo of each of these people (daughter, mother, father, brother), stating their names, and hitting a “Make my Movie!” button. Within minutes, the fully custom piece of content is rendered and streamed to your preferred viewing device. All verbal mentions of Belle are now “Eva”. Belle’s face has been replaced with an apparently hand-animated representation of your daughter. And her exquisite ballroom dress is now green, not yellow:
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This is a one-off custom piece of content created via the brilliance of the original creators — amplified and multiplexed by the magic of dSky.AI. And it is executed automatically, immediately, without the need for any human intervention. The core meta-content can be customized thousands — millions of times, and delivered to individual households and devices, simultaneously. A truly unique, bespoke movie for each and every consumer.
Our go-to-market MVP is delivered in the form factor of a traditional children’s storybook, which we call the dSky Magic Storybook™. In this case, your child’s name and image are uploaded, the custom book is dynamically typeset (name) and rendered (watercolor illustrations), and using print-on-demand, the finished physical book (and an optional digital e-reader version) is delivered to your doorstep within 10 days.
But this is only the beginning, and a proof of concept. As text-to-video and text-to-game engines mature, ACE will enable the fully automated delivery of custom photosets, video snippets, movies, and videogames.
Want to join the next generation of content creation?
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Intrigued?
Reach out to partners (at) dsky.ai,
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