Cross-Product Creative Challenge #5: The Future of HR!

[AlanGilbertson]

Imagine a mega-corporation of the future, where all the boring work is done by robots. HR is now RR: “Robotic Resources.” Humans have flipped the script, and now the bots must apply for jobs, like our robot friend here.

Use your imagination. What does the robot hiring process look like? Build out your scene using at least Firefly and Photoshop or Photoshop for Web. 

Remember: This is the Cross-Product Challenge. One app is not enough, and one image from a prompt is definitely not enough! You don’t have to be an expert! This is for anyone at any skill level. The main thing is to have fun and let your imagination run free.

[tonks_the_auror]

Hi Alan,

Thanks, this was fun!

I'm not sure how I got gender-specific robots. My Firefly prompt was "A silver robot sitting at a table filling out a paper job application. There is a laptop and a coffee cup on the table."

The second robot—and the human—were generated in photoshop. I don't remember exactly what the prompt was for the second robot, but I didn't specify gender. For the human, I specified a woman wearing a business suit.

[AlanGilbertson]

That's hilarious!

[Monika Gause]

On the internet nobody knows you're a dog

These were two generated images in Firefly. In order to get the same vibe in the vacuum robot part, I had to use the cats as a style reference, but then Firefly added cats to it. I retouched them in Photoshop, added the text and combined the two panels.

[AlanGilbertson]

That's hilarious, Monika. Firefly has clearly picked up the Internet's obsession with cats!

[Monika Gause]

THank you, Alan! I was anxious that the joke got lost.

[Blyss Art]

 My vision of a futuristic HR department.

[AlanGilbertson]

What was your process? Showing how you went beyond a simple prompt is part of the fun of this challenge.

[Myra Ferguson]

I kept getting white robots with the Firefly model, so I switched Firefly to use the GPT Image model to get the base image of the robot janitor.

I brought the image into Photoshop. I tried changing his face, but I never got anything that really matched his style. So I kept the GPT Image model face.

The scene was more daytime, so I darkened the windows. I wanted to spotlight the janitor and make it seem like he was alone in an empty building, so I used some layer masks, applied some color overlays, and added a Curves adjustment layer.

I also added a little vignette to darken up the corners.

[AlanGilbertson]

There's a definite Denis Villeneuve vibe there, Myra! I love the dramatic lighting, and the cinematic color grading is perfect.

[Myra Ferguson]

Thanks! 🙂

[Myra Ferguson]

Also, here's the original image from Firefly:

 

[Jemmarie Bocalbos]

A nice conceptual experiment because of the promot. Thank you!

In a human-less future maybe robots will be more like humans?

The process is Firefly, Photoshop and then feed the updated image back to firefly.

The composition reference is love ❤️

[AlanGilbertson]

Wonderful! I love the concept, and the execution is superb. Just delightful!

[sanjay_6298]

[Minseo_Kwon0369]

This image shows a robot being interviewed by a human in a futuristic HR office.

[christianot40873293]

[D. Humann]

Sentience
Tools: Adobe Firefly, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Color, Adobe Fonts.

In my narrative, the AI robots are the assistants hired to help the artist. Their job description includes prepping the surfaces, fetching the tools, mixing the paint, offering advice, and of course, cleaning up afterwards! As the artist contemplates his design, the robots look at each other seemingly uncertain about the design and what sentience truly means.

After fleshing out my idea for this comp, I generated "stock images" that I could use to create rough composites in Photoshop. I used Adobe Color to brainstorm ideas for the color palette and Adobe Fonts to figure out the typeface to use in the design.

I went through several iterations of the composite until I settled on one that I thought was strong and aesthetically pleasing. It was constructed in Photoshop. The final tweaks were done with Camera Raw to punch up the colors, brightness and contrast.

Thanks for looking!   

[AlanGilbertson]

Totally brilliant, Daniel! I love everything about it. Massive thanks for sharing the process: that's what this challenge is all about.

[fbeaume]

Wow! That's awesome Daniel!
Thanks for sharing your workflow!
You nailed it!

[Henrik Heigl]

Dystopian workforce 😉

[Joseph Labrecque]

Started in Firefly generating a robot with pots and pans... a glum job.
Brought this nto Photoshop and seperated the subject from the background. 
Imported that into After Effects and added camera work, music, and effects... weeeeeeeeee! 
Sad robot worker 😞 

[AlanGilbertson]

Superb as usual. Nice to see a bit of video once in a while!

[Turtle.PSD]

Same updates, more experience, older model:

less opportunity

 

[AlanGilbertson]

That's delightful Turtle! Do share your process. It's part of the enjoyment.

[Turtle.PSD]

Thanks for the positive feedback. And sure, I'd love to. I generated the setting and the newer model robot in Firefly seperately (The older model was generated in Google Image FX) and put them all together in Photoshop, made that "A charged robot is a productive robot" text. Generated the happy robot and lightning icons within PS as well as the cane on the "old" robot (lol at how great it turned out for typing a sentence). And I just thought it was funny to spin the ageism/modelism and  coffee/high mileage oil thing. A few adjustment layers to make the older robot look older and the newer robot look more new as well as part of the environment (corporation). And of course I ran it through Camera Raw because I'm not lazy lol. I would like to note that the only reason I didn't get that standard white robot frequently seen here is because I specified settings such as "futuristic" and "neon colors" etc. in effects and I feel like people don't know how much of a difference those settings make.