It has been a few years since I ran the website Carmashups, but I haven’t forgotten its origins. For those that aren’t familiar with that short fad: I challenged myself to program an automated mashup that would combine two cars into one single one and posted the output on the Carmashups website. For instance, this Mitsuota Galina AMG Surf:
It’s a mashup of a Mitsubishi Galant AMG and a Toyota Carina Surf.
The mashup program would make more mashups, for instance the blueprint and also all sorts of texts describing the car and its specs like engine, horsepower and suspension.
The end of Carmashups
So why did I end Carmashups? The answer is twofold: it required a lot of work, and AI superseded my programming.
To find images that could overlay or overlap each other. Then I needed to draw each blueprint as well and write all the texts and specs. To add a car, it would take me about two working days’ worth of time. At the same time, AI was making its entrance to the market and, back then, it was already stunning what it could produce. It would be about on par with my own creations, so I feared it would soon be better. Given that ANYONE could create their own mashup on demand, I reckoned continuing my project would be a fruitless effort.
Carmashups reborn
I’m still creating mashups of cars, and I still enjoy creating the wild and silly “what if” photos. For instance, this BMW M0.550 is a mashup of an Alto RS-R and an M3:
In the future, expect me to share my creations here from time to time
