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Serious Smile - King Kung

By Serious Smile · NL

Paul van Kempen, known by his artistic name Serious Smile, is a Dutch digital artist, music producer, and visual creator with a passion for animation, technology, and electronic music. His work combines imaginative storytelling with the rapidly evolving possibilities of artificial intelligence. Using AI-assisted animation and video techniques, Serious Smile creates colorful, surreal, futuristic, and often psychedelic visual worlds that complement his music and artistic vision. Inspired by retro culture, electronic music, arcade games, science fiction, animation, and the visual language of the 1980s and 1990s, his videos often blend nostalgic aesthetics with modern AI technology. His work explores the relationship between human creativity and machine-generated imagery, creating experimental animations that are energetic, playful, and visually unconventional. Through Serious Smile, Paul van Kempen continues to experiment with new forms of digital expression, bringing together music, animation, AI, and imagination into distinctive audiovisual experiences.

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VIDEO
Approved
25 August 2026