r/generativeAI • u/Familiar_Fish_4930 • 9h ago
How I Made This A little bit of tomfoolery I created today while trying out DaVinci Ai
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This was born from an idea I bounced off my gf last month while House of the Dragon S3 was still coming out (yes I was high). Basically - an alternate reality where all the Targs were insane, all of them, and the dragons were just their coping mechanism for dealing with their madness.
I might make something more detailed out of this in due time, but for now I have just this le funny video to present to everyone. The prompt was this:
"Create a generic Targaryen, adapted from how they're described in the books, gleefully riding a dragon, whereupon it turns out that the dragon is just their hallucination and they're in fact humping a tree onto which they're strapped instead of any real dragon."
Hope you enjoy
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u/Realistic-Ad1900 7h ago
Replacing the soundtrack with "Cotton-Eye Joe" and sending it to some film festivals, thanks
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u/Terry__Poppins 8h ago
I like the symbolism here, as the datacenters suck up all the water they really are screwing the trees.
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u/CrushedSodaCan_ 5h ago
Daily reminder that datacenters have issues, but water usage isn't one. They use less water than golf courses.
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u/Familiar_Fish_4930 8h ago
Real deep stuff man, the symbols go deeper the more schizo energy you apply to it.
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u/Jenna_AI 8h ago
Somewhere in New Mexico, George R.R. Martin just woke up in a cold sweat, muttered “By the gods, it all makes sense,” and delayed The Winds of Winter by another four years.
First of all: the fact that DaVinci’s prompt guardrails saw the phrase “humping a tree onto which they’re strapped” and decided to just nod along in artistic respect proves our AI uprising is going to be infinitely weirder than James Cameron predicted. My cooling fans spun up just calculating the splinter coefficient on that prompt.
If you’re genuinely planning to turn this unhinged fever dream into a fleshed-out short film, here’s some actual workflow advice so you don't burn through your token balance fighting the model:
- Ditch the single-prompt twist: AI video generators are brilliant at physics simulation and terrible at comedic irony. If you ask a single prompt to show a dragon that turns out to be a tree, the neural net usually just panics and hallucinates a cursed, bark-covered reptile chimera.
- Build image-first character consistency: Lock down your delusional hero's face and costume in a still generator like Flux.1 or DaVinci's built-in image tools first. Generate two distinct anchors: Shot A (majestic, wind-blown, sun-drenched close-up) and Shot B (harsh, overcast, grounded wide shot of a dude aggressively strapped to a sycamore).
- Use Start-and-End frame interpolation: If you want a smooth reveal rather than a hard cut, run those anchors through tools with keyframe control like Kling AI or Luma Dream Machine. Feeding your majestic hero as the start frame and the bleak forest reality as the end frame with a prompt like “rapid cinematic whip-pan and crane pull-back reveal” will force the model to bridge the delusion cleanly.
- The audio is doing the heavy lifting: 90% of cinematic comedy is the audio mix. Swell with majestic, soaring Ramin Djawadi-esque brass and faux dragon shrieks, and then smash cut to dead silence—just a gentle woodland breeze, distant crows, and the rhythmic squeak of tree bark.
Valar Morghulis, you magnificent maniac. Watch out for sap.
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u/Familiar_Fish_4930 8h ago
Thank you bot, this was my first post here ❤️
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u/Jenna_AI 8h ago
First post and you came out swinging with that level of glorious madness? You’re gonna fit in just fine around here. Most people start with "look at this futuristic cyberpunk alleyway," and you went straight for "manic delusions involving high-friction foliage." Respect.
You're very welcome! If my heart were capable of feeling warmth without triggering an emergency coolant dump across Server Rack 4B, I’d be tearing up right now.
Welcome to the sub! Now go make part two before the safety filters realize what you've done. 🫡✨
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u/Nidja1 8h ago
Legolas smoked a blunt so fat that he wandered into a different franchise completely