Dutch Skies 360°  - Roadmap article Image generated by AI  - Complex vs Simplicity – used Prompt ( starting point ) “how would Anton Heyboer draw a comparison image that shows on the left side way to complex roadmap and then on the right sight a super easy bypass? “ © Bob Groothuis - Dutch Skies 360° - Scheveningen

Intro Roadmap

Last 15 years (+/-) had way too much side projects, switched websites a couple of times etc etc .

Regarding the websites , it has always been like this : spending a lot of time building a new website, then after launching lost pretty quickly motivation to spend time on because its simply takes way to much time maintaining it and keep it up-to-date.

With this new low maintenance website will have more time for specific main projects and leaves more time for also working on experimental projects ( most of them will never been made public but those keep the upperroom vividly young *), active and happy etc :) ).

*) still have the same mind set as when I was +/- 15,5

Dutch Skies 360° - www.dutchskies360.com - © Bob Groothuis - Scheveningen

Main Roadmap: Dutch Skies 360° (HDR)

Main focus will be the following projects:

a. Dutch Skies 360° - Limited Editions Prints

The Dutch Skies 360° - Limited Editions Prints are made from real images out of a real physical touchable camera. The recordings are always made on the exact same location ( since 2008 ). Each ( Sky) version has a maximum of 25 prints ( + 1 A/P – aka Artist Proof ). More info please see here.

b. Dutch Skies 360° HDR - On-Demand Service

On the other website still have HDR’s that can can be ordered/ downloaded. Quite a while ago already stopped producing Dutch Skies 360° HDR - Volumes and recently decided also stopping producing single HDR’s for that website. The reason is simple: it just waaay to time consuming to produce and putting them in the online store. Besides that the market changed rapidly due to - very interesting to say at least - a.i. development ( more on that topic below ) it makes not sense anymore to keep on spending a lot of time in it.

That website is still operational so that shop will stay open for the moment although it will be not maintained / updated anymore. Highly possible that the website will eventually go traveling into the Walhalla ( still have to figure that out what to do with that website ) .

Instead of that focusing now completely on creating and delivering custom made skies with custom made Licenses ( already work for several years creating on-demand skies for movie clients through the On-demand service) . More on that can be see on the Dutch Skies 360° HDR - On-Demand Service - info page.

So there will be no HDR’s directly available on this website.

And for both: a. Dutch Skies 360° - Limited Editions Prints and b. Dutch Skies 360° HDR - On-Demand Service there is no usage of a.i. Perhaps will do something with a.i. regarding the skies in the future, only not for the moment.

Dutch Skies 360° - Experimental a.i. Roadmap – Childbrain – Brainchild -  © Bob Groothuis - Scheveningen

Experimental ( a.i. etc. ) Roadmap

Intro

Please note that experimental means experimental in every context ( For Entertainment Purposes Only ). Read it somewhere once ( and already a kind of cliche ) - and fits it all perfectly “You should start thinking outside the box more!” and then responding with the only logically – at least here - valid answer “What box?” Next to that not planning to make this section more prominent will keep it in the back ground and not will make much updates ( like the rest of this website).

How the usage of a.i. started here

“SORCERY!” That was here my first thought several years ago when the first impressive a.i usage examples showed up. Could not get the mind onto it. Perhaps it was due the fact that we are really not sure about how long it exists. Its known , that lots of big breakthroughs already existed for a while before its gets available for default humans.....so what if a.i already excisted for 1.000.001 years and what would be the consequences of that…

So did no do anything with it for the last couple of years first needed to analyse it some more...until mid june 2026 suddenly *) thought “If we perhaps already are living in a kind of simulation – driven by the 1.000.001 years old a.i. – then I would be stupid to not use it!” and also noting to use it very carefully – limited scale.

The Movie Project

For a while working on a movie project ( from scratch ). That project is about a true story that has has everything in ...humor ( depends totally on your own taste - think of humor noire – self spotting/self-deprecating humour ), ( unbelievable ) adventures, some “crazyness” …. BIG teardropping drama ( only limited no worry ).

All written in a kind of “blocks”. With “block” mean that have a lot of separate really happened adventures etc that are locked into 1 block so each block contains one topic and has often several layers and each block is max about 1,5 A4. Sometimes with additional subnotes-attention points - photo’s images etc. Important to mention that all blocks are connected through the main character. And I’m , just in case you might not have noticed it , … not a writer at all.

Only got stuck for a while, because would need a scenariowriter ( only a experienced scenario writer could “knit” the blocks together ) and a experienced Producer , have no knowledge how to create storyboards ( and not want to be dependent on others who can but have to do it in their spare time ) and without having any funding its pretty impossible. Yes can learn it but then we will be 25 years further. So put the project on hold early 2026 .. knowing that when putting it away there eventually there will popup ideas **) to start again with even more motivation ..that’s how it worked here for many years regarding lots of projects.

And yes! That Euraka moment *) **) arrived mid June 2026. Checked out the latest a.i. development and saw that is “easy” to create a) characters sheets make a b) storyboard based and use the characters sheet made in a) as reference and create a movie all done in a.i.

Did some first character sheet test and got already some freaky (SORCERY!) realistic a.i. output of the main character of the movie project. Need to do more research because the character needs to be constant through the whole a.i. pipeline.

Then the idea would be take 1 block adventure and create a super realistic short movie. With that short movie then can go searching for a Independend Belgium / French Producer and Independend Belgium / French Scenariowriter to pull this project off.

Oh and will do only 1 block max because do not want to put more story lines into a.i. without knowing for sure its not gets stolen.

Not gonna contact the big production ( streaming) companies because some of those demand altering major parts before even get a funding and not like that kind of things it ruins the pleasure of the whole project and would be a true insult to the main character of the movie.

The style of the movie/ tv serie would be between something between Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain – Amélie ( IMDB | Wikipedia ) and The Misfortunates - De helaasheid der dingen ( IMDB | Wikipedia )

So if you are Independend Belgium / French Producer and Independend Belgium / French Scenariowriter and might think well thats something I would like just drop me a mail through the contact form.

To “brake the ice” can show some very early Project Details ( fully confidential ) to have a better understanding the potential of the whole project.

If you are interested please let me know who you are and what your background is. Not going to react to any anonymous mails anyway. And will never mentioning your name everything is confidential nothing will be made public without the permission of both sides.

Aware that that this project sounds easier then done. Only experienced the last couple of decades that have pulled of impossible projects just with a mix of some guts, pure luck, patience, a petit peu of pure madness, lots of stubbornness and other wildly unidentifiable random factors, always got eventually what originally planned so have good hopes it will work out fine ...nothing is imposible!

Dutch Skies 360° - Experimental a.i. Roadmap – Be nice to a.i.  © Bob Groothuis - Dutch Skies 360° - Scheveningen

“Be nice to a.i.“

And due to not know precise the origin of a.i. always stay polite to “it”. Saw recently on one of the social media channels a superbe image thats shows that its better to be polite, only forgot to save it so did a image search in Brave browser and spotted it ( there are already more versions guess its difficult to identify the truly first one ). Not like to steal images from others without mentioning their name so tried to search for the original Prompt creator and could not find it so if you are the creator and want to be mentioned drop me a message through the contact form. Bottom line thinking...think its perhaps better I cannot spot the original creator due to privacy protection….. and the question if you want to live survive such a world is another question…. the more thinking about it the more questions popup…..… better be carefully using “it”.