I’m extremely excited to finally reveal what I’ve been working on for the last year and a half: Reve.
First of all, I’ve been leading a double life. While working on creative platforms and tooling at Adobe for twenty years, building the Stable Diffusion Photoshop plugin, running product at Stability (DreamStudio and REST APIs), and creating Concept.art (which became Reve), I also published four novels and optioned several stories for film and TV adaptation.
While I’m an extremely passionate writer, I’ve always found it frustrating to be restricted to text. When I’m world-building, I see places in my head that don’t exist, objects that haven’t yet been invented, and people who I’ve never met. I’ve always wanted writing to be more multi-modal — to engage more of my senses.
When pitching stories and trying to communicate my vision, I don’t want to storyboard with shots from other movies or stock photos. I want images directly out of my imagination.
When working with artists to design book covers, I’ve always wanted to communicate with visual prototypes rather than just comps.
Attached images:
1) A machine from my latest novel, SCORPION, capable of generating gravitational waves. For the first time, I was able to take it from words to pixels.
2) A character from SCORPION named Henrietta Yi, a PhD candidate (and Pokémon fanatic) who finds a mysterious Shakespearean message while doing research at the Large Hadron Collider.
3) One of my favorite scenes from SCORPION, perfectly visualized for the first time.
4) Book cover ideation and variation.
Reve Image is still just a preview, but we think it’s so good (and so much fun) that we wanted to share it with the world — and to start building in public. Whether you’re storyboarding a film, exploring logo concepts with a client, or telling the story of your brand, Reve Image is an essential new tool for your creative toolbox.
https://preview.reve.art/
