Boy Wonder Clay Render NFT Animation and Music by Marjan Moghaddam 20 Second loop 2D AI to 3D AI, 3D Modeling and 3d Animation, 3d Rendering and compositing.

Specific Software: Blender Lightwave3d Modeler and layout, Octane Render, Adobe Premiere and Fusion for final compositing. 

Boy Wonder continues my ongoing #arthack practice of intervening on exhibitions and digital spaces as Net Art with my animated figures and critical discourse, a series I began in 2016. Many of these #arthacks have been widely profiled in the press, gone viral online, won major art awards, sold as NFTs into top collections, and been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide.

In an unexpected twist, Boy Wonder turns that spirit of intervention toward AI itself. Starting from a 2D AI-generated portrait, I used AI tools to reconstruct a 3D mesh from the data, which I then reworked through sculpting, procedural, and generative 3D animation techniques. The background, used generative AI video, that I then further altered, recolored, reanimated, and voxelized within the 3D scene. I created the music going back and forth while animating, to build the right soundscape.

What began as a simple 2D AI image evolved into a Chronometric Sculpture and an animated painting. This work, though born from AI processes, is ultimately a human-made arthack of a 3D AI mesh, as an artistic intervention asserting that human creativity, agency, and intentionality remain vital, even in the age of Synthetic Art and visual automation.

This still portrait is derived from the animation, using the same techniques. It is color variation of the original and contains various sculped deformations from the original animation.

Credits: Head mesh derived from Mid Journey and Meshy Generative AI image

3d Modeling and animation: Marjan Moghaddam

Rendering: Marjan Moghaddam

Compositing: Marjan Moghaddam

Music: marjan Moghaddam