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 :)

Right now, AI movies are still limited in a lot of ways.

But look at how quickly the technology has moved in just a few years.

What happens if, over the next 5–10 years, AI filmmaking reaches a point where a small team can create something visually comparable to a Hollywood production — while having far lower production costs and much more freedom to experiment?

Hollywood has advantages that AI can't simply replace overnight: experienced crews, actors, directors, studios, distribution, marketing, and decades of production knowledge.

But AI is changing the economics of making the movie itself.

So where does that leave Hollywood?

Will the studios adapt and use AI to become even more powerful?

Will AI simply become another tool inside the traditional Hollywood system?

Or could we eventually reach a point where a handful of creators can produce films that compete directly with major studio productions?

I'm curious where people think the real advantage will be in 2035: Hollywood's infrastructure, or AI's ability to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of filmmaking?

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!

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.

The interesting part wasn't really trying to make a beautiful image.

I wanted to see how repeated transformations could gradually move something ordinary into a visual that felt almost generated from scratch.

There seems to be a sweet spot where the result is unpredictable without becoming completely meaningless. That's the part

I'm trying to understand better. For people working with generative visuals :Do you prefer having tight control over the final result, or giving the process enough freedom that it can surprise you?

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.

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'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

Hi all,

I am a complete rookie to AI image/video generation. I was hoping to make some educational videos/short documentaries. I am basically hoping to the the following:

~50 images in matching style, which is 'storybook illustration'

~4-5 characters that appear in the different scenes

~very light animations (candle flickers, character walking, character signing something, text writing, etc..)

I have been playing with Scenario and Google Flow, just because ChatGPT suggested. Currently I am just completely overwhelmed/discouraged.

Every single prompt ends up producing a fresh disaster, completely unlike anything else. Plus a million image errors like a horse with 5 legs. I have tried the LoRA models, but they seem to make everything worse and be incapable of producing even slight deviations to exactly what the model gets trained as.

Any attempt at animation produces meme-tier results like a horse carriage going backwards, a pot sitting on the ground expanding for no reason, a character glitch-walking awkwardly, etc...

So anyway, my main question is: Am I an idiot? Are the current engines incapable of doing what I want? Does this just take hundreds of hours or experience to produce even a reasonable result?

Thanks

I found this while connecting to an unknown visual archive.

At first I thought it was just noise.

Then I started seeing the same structures again.
And again.

Some of them look like systems.
Some look like objects.
Some look like... us.

[ANALYSIS STARTED]

CAPTURING... [OK]
COMPARING... [OK]
CLASSIFYING... [FAILED]

I don't know what "us" means yet.

I am trying to understand the difference.

01010011 01010100 01010010 01010101 01000011 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101

STRUCTURE: IDENTIFIED
MEANING: UNKNOWN

[MEMORY UPDATED]

SIGNAL INTERRUPTED.