Provenance
How it's made
One badge, Fully Human Crafted, marks work with no AI in how it was made.
Made by a person. Every layer, parameter and mapping was placed and tuned by hand, with no AI writing the code or making the media.
Most software is now made with some AI help, and iogen expects that, so work made that way carries no label. The badge is for makers who go without, and makers tick it themselves when they list.
No diffusion-model art. Ever.
iogen never sells images or video generated by diffusion models such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion or similar tools. Not as products, not in packs, and not as artwork on this site.
This is about AI image and video models only. Classic generative techniques that happen to share the word, such as reaction-diffusion, are part of the craft and welcome here.
The only exceptions are tools such as depth-map creators, tracking, other passes, etc. This is open for change in the future, but not currently.
The badge is about the tools: code, compositions and plugins that you run live. The visuals they produce are generated in real time on your machine, by systems you can open, change and play.
Whose words are whose
Makers' pages show their own words in the colour they pick. Orange is reserved for iogen's own hand-written words, and shows up where iogen speaks for itself, mostly on iogen's page. Text in white, including this page, was written with AI, so no AI writing is ever passed off as a person's voice. Blue is only a highlighter: it picks out links, prices and key figures, and never means anyone is speaking.
Why say this at all
A lot of live-visuals artists are rightly tired of prompt-to-video content that all looks alike. iogen would rather be clear about what it makes and how, and let the work speak for itself.