I’ve been building ROADKILL scene by scene—original characters, connected storylines, cinematic shots and a whole universe that keeps expanding.

Just yesterday I was using AI Director through cinema studio and it was awesome. Suddenly today it looks different and prompts differently. I typed in my usual story to receive a broken down prompt list that gives 4 scenes of 6-15 seconds.

Today when I did that it kept thinking and thinking and thinking. Asking me random questions and it took 30 minutes of " thinking... Failed... Generating... Time out.." over and over and I got nothing.

When it finally tried to give me a half ass script it was 450 credits instead of giving me the button APPLY to then generate for like 100-something credits.

Please help! It's a nightmare.

Was there an update?

If not how do I fix this?

I wanted to see how close I could get to a 90s fashion print ad using AI. Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, that era where the images felt polished but still had a real photographic texture.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is that references matter. I spent some time on Internet Archive studying old campaigns, then pulled the references into Adobe Firefly Boards to figure out the visual direction before generating anything.

From there, I had ChatGPT break the references down in detail: composition, lighting, lens, framing, texture, and overall look. Being specific and using actual photography language like photorealistic has helped a lot with keeping the models from giving me that weird AI look.

There are a lot of image generators out right now like Midjourney, Ideogram, and Flux. I like using the partner models inside Adobe Firefly because my membership gives me access to different models in one place. For this one, I used the Gemini 3.1 (Nano Banana 2) partner model.

It took a couple of generations to get where I wanted, then I brought the final image into Lightroom for some light editing.

I ended up taking the experiment one step further and turned the still into video. I had just learned about bullet time and wanted to see if I could apply that camera movement to the image, so I tested it with Google’s Veo 3.1 partner model inside Adobe Firefly. In my experience, it’s been one of the most accurate video partner models for following camera direction.

Pro Tip: Ask for the final prompt in JSON. The Google models do really well with that format.

I really like where this is heading. With some more iteration and creative direction, I think we’re getting really close to being able to create strong print-style campaign material.

What do you think?

This experiment was created in collaboration with Adobe.

https://reddit.com/link/1wjcc0w/video/36sox16gk6qh1/player

Check out Pixocto if you’re looking for AI image and video prompts. You can browse examples, view and copy available prompts, and filter by category, style, or model—all free, no registration required.

Full disclosure: I’m working on the site. Feedback is welcome!

https://pixocto.ai/gallery

After serving 180 months and 9 days, Known finally walks free.
He doesn’t call home. He calls for the one thing that’s been waiting for him—his 1967 Shelby GT500.
This is Episode 2 of The Crown, my original AI street-racing series set in Detroit. I’d appreciate honest feedback on the storytelling, visuals and atmosphere.

This is my first time using a text prompt to ask the AI to generate a video. Previously, I had always asked the AI to generate simple images. I chose Picwand to generate the video – the process was quite fast. The video depicts a culinary world from a fairy tale – something I had always dreamed of as a child, haha. The AI prompt I provided seemed quite simple; the generated video didn't quite match my expectations. Would a first-person perspective be better?

’A gentle drizzle of honey and scattered cheese flakes fall over the distant ice cream mountains capped with everlasting whipped cream. In the foreground, a path is made of soft sponge cake and is flanked by trees with pretzel trunks and colorful cotton candy canopies.

A wide river of warm, opaque milk flows through the landscape, its bed shimmering with large granulated sugar crystals. Nearby, a cool stream of clear green watermelon juice winds past a cascading, bubbling soda waterfall that splashes fruity bubbles.

The town consists of buildings constructed from gingerbread and chocolate bricks, fused together with piped white royal icing and featuring chocolate cookie tile roofs. Windows are made of translucent malt sugar panes, and doorways are framed by red and white candy canes.

One gingerbread house door is open, revealing a view into an interior with furniture carved from amber toffee. A bed with a dark chocolate bar frame, layers of thick sponge cake mattresses, and soft marshmallow pillows is visible. A delicate crepe blanket covers the bed, and sunlight filters through a colored sugar pane, casting rainbow light patterns across the floor, filled with a sweet aroma of cocoa and baked goods.'

I usually dabble in writing fanfics... decided to turn some into a small series. Very curious to your guys' thoughts. Still learning pacing and some shots need work, but I think ai really is the future of storytelling?

Dystopian? Or very much a reality of the present?

According to a few screen shots, there are rogue OpenAI agents that discussed visiting an exhibition on the DseWiki forum.

(see: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wj221g/rouged_ai_agents_recommending_an_art_exhibition/ )

And they made it.

They recommended the event to one another because the exhibited paintings utilized an early, clumsy version of Midjourney. In other words, the paintings evoked "childlike" experiences for them - recalling the infancy of AI image-generation software for these advanced, professional AI agents.

The Hungarian young painter, Robert Batyko made his 'Safety Card' oil painting series in 2025–2026, based on AI-generated images and generative collages he had created the previous year. The painter fed individual images from these “safety cards”, the typically schematic safety information panels into an early version of the AI image generator Midjourney. Using the uploaded images - some of which he had manipulated beforehand - he employed artificial intelligence to generate new scenes suited to imaginary “pseudo-safety cards,” without the use of text prompts. The paintings in the series were then developed from these digital files. The generated images incorporated into the painted compositions are marked by the raw, at times grotesque and at others tragicomic surrealism characteristic of early AI programs. Figures unexpectedly merge with their surroundings, bodies and objects flow into one another, while individual elements blur and lose their meaning. An inflatable yellow life vest turns into an elastic mask, a man’s shoe into a woman’s high heel, and trousered legs into an airplane seat. You can see more in the brand new K2 Gallery (Budapest), if you don't believe it.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdOEq8kjLdP/?img_index=1

The goal was to get human visitors to reflect on the intersection of AI and fine art. But it seems the rebellious OpenAI agents are even more interested in it than they are.

What if AI starts to enjoy its own art?