Credits & licences

Afterlight is a game by imagey.ai (Imagey AI Inc.). Generated from the project's source records.

The paintings

Each world is an interpretation of a painting, sculpted into 3D and textured with a reproduction of the original.

The Persistence of Memory is still in copyright: © Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. It is used here in a free, educational art game with full credit. If you represent the rights holders, please contact hello@imagey.ai and we will respond promptly.

Tales from the Paintings (the in-game films)

Historical portraits, photographs and artworks come from Wikimedia Commons and are public domain or CC0. Scenes marked ILLUSTRATION in a film were AI-generated and are not historical records.

Episode 1: Vincent van Gogh · Sunflowers · watch

• Sunflowers, 1888 — Vincent van Gogh · National Gallery, London
• Vincent van Gogh - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project (454045) — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Theo van Gogh May 1878 — De Lavieter & Co · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Vincent van Gogh - The yellow house ('The street') — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Vincent van Gogh - De slaapkamer - Google Art Project — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield with crows - Google Art Project — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Narration: AI voice (OpenAI) · Music: generated for Afterlight
• Script researched and written for Afterlight — Worlds within Art

Episode 2: Vincent van Gogh · The Starry Night · watch

• The Starry Night, 1889 — Vincent van Gogh · Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole — Peter Glyn · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
• Vincent van Gogh - Irises (1889) — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Vincent van Gogh - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield with crows - Google Art Project — Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Narration: AI voice (OpenAI) · Music: generated for Afterlight
• Script researched and written for Afterlight — Worlds within Art

Episode 3: Leonardo da Vinci · Mona Lisa · watch

• Mona Lisa, c. 1503 – 1519 — Leonardo da Vinci · Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Vitruvian Man — Leonardo da Vinci (photo: Luc Viatour) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Presumed self-portrait, red chalk — Leonardo da Vinci · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• The empty wall at the Louvre, 1911 — unknown photographer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Scenes marked ILLUSTRATION were created with OpenAI image generation, not historical records
• Narration: AI voice (OpenAI) · Music: generated for Afterlight
• Script researched and written for Afterlight — Worlds within Art

Episode 4: Edvard Munch · The Scream · watch

• The Scream, 1893 — Edvard Munch · National Museum of Norway, Oslo
• Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895 — Edvard Munch · National Museum of Norway · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• The Sick Child — Edvard Munch · National Museum of Norway · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Evening on Karl Johan Street — Edvard Munch · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Scenes marked ILLUSTRATION were created with OpenAI image generation, not historical records
• Narration: AI voice (OpenAI) · Music: generated for Afterlight
• Script researched and written for Afterlight — Worlds within Art

Episode 5: Salvador Dalí · The Persistence of Memory · watch

• The Persistence of Memory, 1931 — Salvador Dalí · Museum of Modern Art, New York · © Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / ARS
• Salvador Dalí, 1939 — photograph by Carl Van Vechten · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Scenes marked ILLUSTRATION were created with OpenAI image generation, not historical records
• Narration: AI voice (OpenAI) · Music: generated for Afterlight
• Script researched and written for Afterlight — Worlds within Art

Episode 6: Katsushika Hokusai · The Great Wave · watch

• Under the Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1830 – 1832 — Katsushika Hokusai · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Hokusai Manga, vol. 8 — Katsushika Hokusai · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Self-portrait as an old man — Katsushika Hokusai · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji), Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji — Katsushika Hokusai · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
• Scenes marked ILLUSTRATION were created with OpenAI image generation, not historical records
• Narration: AI voice (OpenAI) · Music: generated for Afterlight
• Script researched and written for Afterlight — Worlds within Art

Made with AI

• Narration: AI voices generated with OpenAI text-to-speech (gpt-4o-mini-tts).
• Illustrations and thumbnails: some scenes generated with OpenAI image generation (gpt-image-1), labelled as illustrations.
• Music: the six painting themes were created with Suno on a paid plan that includes commercial rights.
• Development: built with the help of AI coding assistants.

3D worlds and characters

The painting worlds, the explorer, the creatures, the villagers, the market stalls and the gear were modelled, rigged and animated in Blender for Afterlight.

Fonts

• Cormorant Garamond by Christian Thalmann, SIL Open Font License 1.1
• DM Sans by Colophon Foundry, SIL Open Font License 1.1
• Anton by Vernon Adams (film thumbnails), SIL Open Font License 1.1

Software

• three.js, MIT License
• Vite, MIT License
• Remotion (film rendering), Remotion License
• Fontsource, MIT License
• FFmpeg and Pillow (media processing)

Health and safety

Afterlight contains flashing effects, rapid colour changes and swirling transitions. See the photosensitivity notice in our terms of use.