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'I am Rebecca' – Character and Costume Design

🖌 Sketch – by me (a long time ago)

📸 Photorealistic Render – NewArc

🎥 Animation – The New Black AI

🎼 Music Clip – Mureka

✂️ Editing – CapCut

Years ago, as a postgraduate theatre design student at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), I created character and costume design boards for productions. This particular board was for The Country by Martin Crimp, featuring the character Rebecca (played by the brilliant Gina Bramhill); a fiery young woman whose arrival disrupts a marriage in this intense three-hander.

Today, with the power of AI and digital tools, I can present her character in a completely new way - combining video editing, a music clip that suits her personality, and a photorealistic rendering that reinterprets my original design.

The possibilities for drama, music, art and design, design and technology, and creative storytelling are incredible.

Of course, there’s much to unpack around copyright and safety. But what I will say is this: the original sketch is mine, the vision for the character is mine, and the AI tools have simply helped me communicate that vision in a way that wasn’t possible when I first designed the production. If these technologies had been available then, I would have used them...