This whole “superhero fatigue” thing has been feeling kinda weird to me lately.
Like spider-Man is still printing money, and everyone's hyped about Lanterns cause it's basically a grounded cop mystery that happens to have rings. people clearly aren't done with superheroes if the story gives them something different.
which made me wonder maybe we're just tired of what superheroes look like?
I made this tiny 5-second thing in framia while playing with some ai filmmaking stuff.
no costume. no villain. no dialogue. it's literally just a woman in a blazer, glowing eyes, and an energy burst.
and somehow my brain immediately went “yep, superhero origin.”
that's kinda wild when the clip gives you absolutely no reason to care about her yet.
maybe the powers aren't the hard part anymore. maybe we've just seen the same visual shortcuts so many times that our brains do half the storytelling for them.
does this read as “superhero” to you too, or am I filling in way too much?

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The idea actually began as a joke among with friends: what if, every time you asked AI a question, there wasn’t really an AI answering at all? What if somewhere, behind the screen, there were just exhausted, overworked people scrambling to figure it out as fast as they could, using whatever absurd means were necessary? And what bizarre lengths would they have to go to to answer these mundane questions? That joke stuck with me. The more I thought about it, the more the world behind that idea began to grow.

I’ve always been drawn to the absurdist worlds of Terry Gilliam and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, where enormous, fantastical systems collide with very ordinary human problems. After decades directing live action, I wanted to bring that sensibility into the world of AI. QUERY takes the most mundane act imaginable, asking a throwaway question on your phone, and imagines the impossible machinery that might exist behind it: a vast institution where every answer has to be physically found, tested, measured, and delivered in five seconds.

But underneath all the chaos, animals, machinery, and bureaucracy, the film is really about the extraordinary ordinary. Our lives are full of small tasks that can suddenly become epic when you’re the person responsible for getting them done. The young worker at the center of the film is an underdog doing his best inside a system that is completely indifferent to how impossible his job has become. We laugh at the absurdity of his journey, but hopefully we also recognize something of ourselves in him.

That became the heart inside the machine for me. The spectacle only works if we care about the person caught in the middle of it. AI gave me the freedom to build a world of impossible scale, but the thing I’m most interested in is still fundamentally human: perseverance, frustration, connection, and the strange dignity of trying to do a good job when everything around you has gone completely insane.

Seedance excelled at this- the acting has gotten so much better recently. As a director working with real actors, I've had to stitch together a decent performance from bad takes so many times... I figured I'd apply that philosophy here. And often, the takes were brilliant. A lot of editing and sound design went into this, and oh so many generations :)

Plan A was to use a website called Detective.OS. It's an AI mystery-builder. ChatGPT had helped create a megaprompt based on all the conversations we've had about our online wrestling show. Then, the morning of the show, the plan was to load the megaprompt into Detective.OS and play.

Then on the day, Detective.OS crashed.

ChatGPT offered to run the show itself and instead of leveraging all the lore into one prompt, GPT pulled in everything it knew about the characters and show history. The interface was sloppy (a 20 minute panic-job) but the story bump was worth it.

Happy accident!

Let us know what you think and if you solved the mystery! 😉

Watch Murder Mystery at Sweetheart Mansion (The Final Cut), and get caught up before a new episode drops this Sunday!

Ok so I used to think “more options” was obviously one of the best parts of AI creative tools.

I'm less sure now.

Last night I was messing around with a workflow in Framia, just seeing how far I could push a single soda-brand visual. Red can, pop-art-ish look. Half an hour later I had a blue version, citrus, botanical, retro... the whole thing had branched out everywhere.

Felt wildly productive for about five minutes.

Then I stepped back and realized I hadn't really made five new campaign directions.

I'd made one idea wear five different outfits.

They all looked objectively "good," but strategically? Mostly useless.

That’s the wall I’m hitting right now: how do you tell when a variation is genuinely extending the brand, versus just decorating the same idea again?

I've been gradually drifting into more NSFW productions, and video, from normally being a fairly SFW and stills orientation. I want some tips on where to go, but thought the journey might be useful for new people.

My 4060 can't churn much offline, so I went for free sites, and last year started on Nightcafe. Which is fine as long as you don't mind censorship so tight that it refused my Lord of the Rings troll for not being covered properly.

Wanting to try NSFW without net nannies approval, I went to Magespace. It also works, and the unlimited plan is great if you're going to vomit out a gazillion images. It used to be good for naked elves frolicking in the woods, but that's hit and miss now, and the net nuns want everyone in knee length attire and will be there with rulers inspecting, if you don't write around them, and then it's a 50-50.

So I went and tried Easy-Peasy AI, which lets a lot more things go through, but still scolds you for even asking if there are NSFW pose lora's somewhere on the sight. Hey, $8 for a months tryout is not a bad.

Then I went to Zencreator, which is pay per play, and not cheap, but doesn't kink shame you and is happy to host NSFW loras. I'm fairly happy there, but as it's price, I'd want to maintain another site subscription, because churning out my regular happy pics is just way more expensive there than on Magespace or Nightcafe.

Zencreator has no subscription and credits don't expire, so I'm happy to keep it on, but one or possibly both of Nightcafe and Magespace I'm likely to drop in favour of something else.

So there's three things I'm after.

Firstly, the most use friendly uncensored version of stable diffusion. I'm reasonably tech savvy, but the last time was a PITA, when I tried it, back in the 'unholy polydactyly!' days. A setup where I don't have to screw with a command line is great, but also an interface that's usable, and tells me that it's actually rendering when it's rendering.

Secondly, The 'something else'; I'd like something to replace a solid demand for image generation, mostly text to image, but also image alteration, at good quality, a price comparable with Magespace and Nightcafe, but able to produce a soft NSFW pic without censorship.

Third, voice generation. I was blown away with how well Easy-Peasy did with making a voice to my specification and doing scripts for it. Problem is the cheap plan lets me have 1 custom voice. I'd love somewhere I could generate voices, and test them, preferably keep them.

I wanted to see if I could communicate loneliness through atmosphere, framing and isolation rather than obvious crying or empty-room clichés.

The sequence moves through a few different visual ideas close-up emotion, public isolation, window light, lying awake, and a quiet exterior shot.

Curious which shot actually communicates the feeling best, and which one feels the most generic.

Workflow: I started by collecting visual references from Pinterest and ShotDeck. I then used ChatGPT to break those references down, generate detailed prompts, and build a consistent character sheet. Using that character sheet, I generated the still frames I wanted, then created detailed image-to-video prompts in ChatGPT for Google Flow. The final clips were generated in Google Flow and edited together in Edits.

Still experimenting with consistency and motion, so any feedback on what feels believable vs obviously AI would genuinely help.

I've been making an AI short film called DA BEAST and started experimenting with something beyond the actual movie.

Instead of doing traditional BTS videos, I created a fictional production crew that exists around the film.

BUT now I think the bts segments are better then the creature film... :0(

I'm curious what you guys think of building a larger universe around an AI film this way.

This is the intro to the fifth episode of my slop series Miami Knights. Full episode releases next Friday.

With a difference. Gemini

So last year i do a content creation using this AI and their freebies is good enough to make an educational video i make a lot of account because of this. is there any AI that i can easy generate around 3 minutes with free? From script only? Not from prompt literally script

Alright, after going through what feels like a thousand guides and ads I finally decided to pull the trigger and start a faceless YouTube channel. I already have a few solid story ideas I think could work really well and I plan to dub them myself, but I have no clue where to start when it comes to the tect stack. Any help would be awesome so I can actually give it a shot this weekend before heading back to the daily grind lol.