Documented project · 2022–2024
Captain Shred tests continuity and authorship across rapidly changing generative tools. Derek Boe develops the characters and world, selects and redirects generations, draws and edits elements, composites scenes and finishes pages in Photoshop.
The work combines hand-crafted Photoshop editing, AI-generated images, hand-drawn illustration and compositing. The Captain’s Log preserves the decisions and development evidence behind the finished images, including panel composition, character design and world building.
The project began as an experiment to create a skateboarding astronaut and grew into a two-year exploration of human imagination and generative technology.