Will Selviz

BELL SKY SLAM ☁️ New Augmented Reality and VFX work for @raptors @bell @mlsepr celebrating 35 years of Raptors Legacy and 25 Years since Vinsanity left the world speechless and put Toronto on the map 🦖🏀 Another huge team lift that beautifully came together for the city 🍁 Try it now at BellSkySlam.ca MLSE Partnerships - Jace Knight, Emma Korol, Brian Bowman, Olivia Beltrano Creative Director - Paul Matthews Copywriter – Andrew Rizzi Art Director – Daniela Angelucci Rizzi Sr. Producer - Angela Su @angelassu Post-Producer - Hania Elakawy Jr. Producer – Anna Xia @annajxia Raptors Alumni Relations - Annie Cho Client Services – Gustavo Toledo Foundation - Gyasi Moffett,Bess Lennox Strategy – Mike Miura, Gurshan Lidder Digital Labs - Sandra Dimaano, Patrick Kwok, Jie Guan, Tyler Kealey & Will Selviz PM – Irina Grozavescu PC – Joanne Sreefa Storyboard Artist - Gabe Kong @gabe.kong STARRING Vince Carter @mrvincecarter15 TORONTO TALENT Lauryn Meek Kiara Graham Joel Okbami-Cael Director - Jerome Riel @jeromeriel 1st AD - Carri Chen DOP - Lester Millado TORONTO Gimbal Op - Rohan Painter 1st AC - Richard Gonzales TOR Zoom - Mike Powell ORLANDO Zoom - Tristen Ross Photographer - Anthony Nusca Social Producer - Tristen Ross BTS Videographer - Kevin Lien TOR Gaffer - Ryan Dioso TOR Grip - Dexter Calleja ORLANDO Gaffer - Jay Shropshire ORLANDO Grip - Joel Wheatley ORLANDO Best Electric - Ed Jensen ORLANDO Best Grip - Greg Chamberlain TORONTO Swing/Package Truck Driver - Nikolai Kaigorodtcev Sound Operator - Adam White @bloorstreetsound Production Designer - Jacob Barnett HMU Artist - Liv Tsai @liv.tsai Trucking Production Assistant - Neil Bartolomeu Production Assistant - Kardeisha Provo Editor - Kevin Lien @kevnlien VFX Supervisor - Will Selviz @willselviz VFX Cleanup - Miguel Fernandes Post-Producer - Alexander Medeiros Composer - Alexander Medeiros @itsalexanderwesley Sound Design + Mix - Alexander Medeiros Colour House - The Vanity @thevanityvfx Executive Producer / Managing Director - Stephanie Pennington Executive Producer - Kayla Baxter Executive Producer - Katie Methot Colour Producer - Valentina Garcia Salazar Colourist - Jordan Benegbi

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@manu.vision and @willselviz x Sora Showcase (3 of 8)
 We’re continuing to slowly expand Sora testing to more creatives (digital VFX pioneers, architects, choreographers, engineering artists, and creative entrepreneurs) to help us understand the model’s capabilities and limitations, shaping the next phase of research to create increasingly safe AI systems over time. While access is still extremely limited while safety testing is underway, we wanted to celebrate these artists’ work with their reflections on how they use Sora in their process. (The underlying visuals were generated solely with Sora without any VFX, but artists added sound and edited using traditional filmmaking software.)
 Manuel Sainsily is a multidisciplinary artist and TED speaker. Will Selviz is an immersive director, creative entrepreneur and founder at RENDRD, specializing in emerging tech adoption and computer graphics. Together they created the short film Protopica, which poses the question: ‘What if our lives are the result of intricate choices crafted long before our current existence?’” Sainsily and Selviz shared, “Our collaboration with Sora enabled rapid prototyping and non-linear iterations to develop a visual aesthetic early in the process.” The voice-over is Guadeloupean Creole spoken by @manu.vision

We tested @ChatGPT Images 2.0 during the alpha and discovered one of our favorite workflows: turning a website into a complete one-page design system. @OpenAI featured our Protopica use case in their latest article, and in this carousel we’re sharing the quote, the output, and the prompt structure behind it. Save this if you’re working on a website, brand system, or redesign. Prompt structure: “Based on the website’s index.html, create a one-page design system covering typography, colors, visual DNA, buttons, icons, spacing, scale, material, motion, and any other core brand patterns. Make it polished, comprehensive, and easy to scan.” If you try it, tag @protopica.world , we’d love to see what you create. Here is the link to the article: /pub/chatgptpro/p/experts-use-chatgpt-images-2-0 #ChatGPT #Images20 #DesignSystem #OpenAI #Protopica

🌊 Ancient petroglyphs and symbolic carvings ripple across the walls, as majestic flora and fauna reveal themselves, carrying participants through a continuum where ancestral memory dissolves into speculative futures. Protopica fuses emerging technologies with Caribbean storytelling traditions, casting water as the connective tissue between past and future. 💧 Protopica by @willselviz & @manu.vision 🔮 Submerge: Beyond the Render 📍 ARTECHOUSE NYC 🎟️ Ticket link in bio! #ARTECHOUSENYC #ARTECHOUSE #SUBMERGE #nyc #immersiveart

With @adobe @adobefirefly at #AdobeMax Made entirely on my phone with Premiere Mobile Model by @romanpillai

“What if our lives result from choices made long before our existence?” This is the core question of ‘Protopica: Sin Agua No Hay Tiempo’ (@protopica.world ) currently on view at ARTECHOUSE NYC’s #SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render exhibition. Rather than using emerging technologies to overwrite, Protopica employs them to listen: to languages, to stories, and to the knowledge carried in blood and water. The experience is a cultural vessel for safeguarding endangered narratives, particularly those rooted in diasporic, Indigenous, and underrepresented cultures. 👥Artists: @willselviz @manu.vision 📍ARTECHOUSE NYC (439 W 15 St New York, NY) 💡Powered by @rendertoken 🎟️Link in Bio for tickets #Indigenouspeoplesday #taíno #indigenouspride #indigenous #caribbean #protopica #artechousenyc #artechouse #sora #immersive #creativecoding #ocean #culturalmemory #nyc #culture #mindfulness #art #nycart #nycmuseums #artist #tech #techforgood #taino

🌊 Protopica: Sin Agua No Hay Tiempo 📍 ARTECHOUSE NYC • Chelsea Market 📅 Sep 19 – Nov 16 | Part of SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render ⚡ Powered by The Render Network ⸻ 🦋 Protopica is an exploration of cultural memory, speculative futures, and ancestral technologies. It began as a short film with OpenAI’s Sora and has grown into a platform blending generative AI, brain-computer interfaces, and immersive design to preserve heritage and community stories. 🤝🏽 A cultural vessel for safeguarding endangered narratives, Protopica asks: How might our identities shift if we remembered differently? ⏳ Sin Agua No Hay Tiempo creates an immersive chamber shaped by Caribbean cosmology, where the ocean emerges as both archive and oracle. Petroglyphs ripple across walls as ancestral memory dissolves into speculative futures. ⸻ 👀 Fun Facts • 18K resolution (Sphere in Vegas is 16K) • 270° 100MP panoramic projection • Rendered in days with The Render Network • Spatial audio with multiple 3D layers • ARTECHOUSE NYC opened in 2015 in a century-old boiler room beneath Chelsea Market ⸻ 👥 Artists • Will Selviz — Immersive designer & Afro-Caribbean technologist, co-founder of Protopica, with XR & AI works for Nike, Meta, Microsoft, and BCI shows at Sónar. • Manuel Sainsily — Guadeloupe-born Creative Director & TED speaker, co-founder of Protopica, lecturer at Harvard/MIT/Stanford/Oxford, co-created MasterClass’s first GenAI course, collaborations with Adobe, NVIDIA, Lightspeed, OpenAI. ⸻ 🗣️ Phillip Gara, VP of Strategy, OTOY: “These are some of the leading 3D artists of our generation, and Artechouse and The Render Network allowed them to express themselves in a transformative new way.” ⸻ 🙏🏽 Thank you for welcoming our art and culture in NYC. If you visit, tag us and share your reflections. — Will & Manu ⸻ #Protopica #SinAguaNoHayTiempo #ARTECHOUSE #SUBMERGE #BeyondTheRender #RenderNetwork #ImmersiveArt #CaribbeanFuturism #HeritagePreservation #GenerativeAI #NYCArt @artechouse @rendertoken @protopica.world @willselviz @manu.vision @romanpillai ⸻ ❓ Which force do you think shapes our future the most?

Barcelona, we’re coming! 🇪🇸 We’re proud to announce Protopica: Neurogenesis, our newest immersive installation, premiering at Sónar 2025 on June 12-14. Held annually in Barcelona, @sonarfestival is one of the world’s leading festivals at the intersection of music, technology, and digital art. Its Project Area is the beating heart of Sónar+D: an open, interactive exhibition where radical ideas, bold design, and experimental tech collide in unforgettable ways. It’s here that Protopica: Neurogenesis will come to life: a multi-sensorial, mind-responsive experience shaped by brain-computer interfaces and generative systems. Through a one-of-a-kind feedback loop between self and machine, visitors embark on a nonlinear journey guided by memory, emotion, and ancestral echoes. Created by @willselviz & @manu.vision , with the help of @louiselessel , and produced by @debiwong . #Protopica #Neurogenesis #Sonar2025 #SonarD #BCI #EEG #AI

POV: A random Hot Wheels on the curb changed your entire perspective with @chatgpt and @soraofficial 🧑🏽‍🎨🔥 When @openai reached out to @manu.vision and I about testing this model during Alpha, we knew nothing would ever be the same… GAME CHANGER! 🤯😮 ❓Have you tried it yet? Let me know what you think! 💭 #imagegenerator #chatgpttips #chatgpt4 #openai #carsofinsta

Happy Air Max Day 👟☁️ it is still surreal to look back at this day as a career-changing moment representing Toronto and Canada on a global @nike campaign. From appearing on billboards, Nike.com homepage, and stores across North America, to having a dedicated segment on their livestream, it will always be a pivoting point for me! Always grateful for my @niketoronto fam ✔️ Remixed using @soraofficial and @chatgpt

Series based on last slide: MC Escher inspired artwork using Dall-E 2 in 2022. Honoured to have worked with the research and dev team at @chatgpt @soraofficial alpha testing their latest image model, Image Gen. For context, this image model is incredibly versatile and built inside ChatGPT and Sora, so it’s super user friendly and can be prompted using text. In these examples, I remixed the original artwork (last photo) made almost 3 years ago using Sora’s “remix” feature (watch tutorial in my last reel). Prompt 1 : Create a hyperrealistic render of my sketch Preserve as much detail as possible (attached original artwork on last slide). Prompt 2: Project these reaction diffusion patterns throughout the painting (attached image with patterns) Prompt 3: Remix to feel more like a Basquiat drawing Prompt 4: Remix to looks like a claymation graphic Prompt 5: Adapt to this style (attached reference image) Prompt 6: Add more details from the original artwork (attached original artwork again) Prompt 7: Remix to look like a PS1 3D render Prompt 8: create a comic from this piece (attached image on first slide) Prompt 9: Turn this into a meme (the model came up with the text and added it Image 10: original artwork inspired by MC Escher What do you think? 🤯 should I share more of these in the future?