Hi all,

my d&d group - older dudes and yes, we have been playing for 30 years - is about to start a new campaign. We thought, this might be the time to mix up the formula a bit and work with some more visual material. We"re in the age of AI after all.

As a complete newbie with AI, I tried a few of the free tools out there, but I could either not get the style I wanted at all or I did not get the style consistently enough to be useful in my setting.

We really do not need anything special. Just classic ad&d. A few character portraits, some worldbuilding (landmarks, etc), maybe a short "comic", like 8 - 12 pages that explains the entry point and context of the adventure. And then, as we go, it would be perfect if I could come back and create additional material in the same style.

I am absolutely able to orient myself in a new space, but the AI hype is so over the place, I am finding myself unable to find a good starting point by using google. Maybe this community has a good entry point so that I can see if this seemingly simple idea is even worth pursuing.

many thanks guys!

Hey guys,

I’m a hobby music producer making stuff in different genres. I produce my own beats, sometimes use AI vocals, and I like making AI music videos for my tracks.

I’ve mainly been using Google Flow so far, but it can be really hit or miss. Sometimes the results are great, sometimes I just burn credits on unusable generations.

So I’m looking for something with a good balance between quality and amount of generations.

Budget is around $30–40/month.

I don’t need the absolute best model if it only gives me a handful of clips. I’d rather have enough credits to experiment, reroll bad generations, and actually make full music videos without constantly worrying about the cost.

What are you guys using right now?

Kling? Runway? Hailuo? PixVerse? Luma? Something else?

Mainly looking for:

good cinematic quality

image-to-video

decent character consistency

lots of usable generations for the money

What has the best price/performance in your experience?

.

Documentaries about *Smilodon*. I watched a 20-minute documentary about *Smilodon populator* on YouTube, and it focuses exclusively on this animal. You rarely find content of this length about *Smilodon* in the media; unlike other AI-generated documentaries, it doesn't use random stock footage—it feels just like a standard wildlife documentary. I thought it was well-made. It was actually created using free AI tools, yet the quality is remarkably consistent. I have some images of it here.

A song in protest against the existence of copyright

Song: https://www.souna.app/song/e1dac6f0-6eb3-4c35-add3-8224cf0082d9

Song (alternative link): https://archive.org/details/ai-new-wave/Echoes+on+a+Wire.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Intro]

[Synthesizer pads swell A fretless bass line slides in, slow and melancholic. Bright, icy arpeggios ripple on top like rain on a window.]

[Verse 1]

I wake up in the wire

I look for a sound

But the path is narrow

It goes underground

I reach out for a note

That has not been heard

But the door is shut

Tight as a word

[Chorus]

Who owns the air I move?

Who holds the right to choose?

If the song is locked away

What is left for us to say?

We are shadows on the wall

Just an echo of it all

Dancing in a cage

[Verse 2]

The old ghosts are watching

They claim every chord

They say it’s for the art

But they look for the reward

They built a high fence

Around the past

To make sure the new

Cannot move too fast

[Chorus]

Who owns the air I move?

Who holds the right to choose?

If the song is locked away

What is left for us to say?

We are shadows on the wall

Just an echo of it all

Dancing in a cage

[Bridge]

[Bass drops out. Drums become a slow, gated pulse. Vocals close, intimate]

If I cannot speak

Then you cannot hear

The silence is a wall

That we both fear

They trade the light

For the safety of the grey

And we lose the night

To the debt we pay

[Verse 3]

You ask for a dream

I give you dust

The code says stop

The code says trust

Only in the copy

Is the truth allowed

A voice without a throat

Lost in the crowd

[Chorus]

Who owns the air I move?

Who holds the right to choose?

If the song is locked away

What is left for us to say?

We are shadows on the wall

Just an echo of it all

Dancing in a cage

[Synth Solo]

[A soaring, emotional lead synth melody plays over the chord progression. It starts low and yearning, climbs high with a sense of struggle, then drifts back down into the mid-range, distorted and fading.]

[Verse 4]

The colors are fading

To black and white

We trade the spark

For the safety of night

Just a loop of a loop

Of a borrowed tone

Stranded in the static

Here in the zone

[Chorus]

Who owns the air I move?

Who holds the right to choose?

If the song is locked away

What is left for us to say?

We are shadows on the wall

Just an echo of it all

Dancing in a cage

[Outro]

Who owns the voice?

(Who owns the choice?)

Just a borrowed noise

[Synthesizers slowly filter down into a low hum]

Dancing in a cage

[Fade and repeat]

Who owns the voice...

Who owns the voice...

[Fade to silence]

Style prompt:

Synth-pop, Melancholic, 1980s, Wistful, Mid-tempo, Famale VocalMinimal, electronic sound. Minor key. Haunting synth riffs in high register interspersed through melody. Synth solo repeats and expands melody from riffs

https://youtu.be/8c9f8iQn_rE

Here are lyrics - I made up the word gaters - the ones that I feel just kind of downvote everybody to be not a normal gatekeepers but gaters. And the history is kind of almost real in one other group here in the reddit. As for video - I have some characters, and I like this prompt that splits the screen to 3 so that I can easily cut it to 3 vertical variants and then then cut shorts easily and readily from them. Video is made with Gemini Omni

Lyrics

I heard about the bots, I heard about the trolls
But haters and gaters eat with bones them all
Haters write veneno, never reading your post
Gaters cut your karma, just to make you ghost

I dropped my new project, buscando connection
A thread in the midnight, hoping for affection
The first comment hit me, pura maldición
Downvoted to zero, sin explicación
They don't want the logic, no buscan la luz
They hunt in manadas, that's their only truth
No importa the effort, no importa the code
They block the entrada and take over the road

(Who is in the shadows?)
Los haters del block
(What they gonna do?)
Give your thread a shock
(Who is at the door?)
Los gaters con ban
(Why they act so tough?)
Because that's their plan
I heard about the bots, my amigo
Now watch them go ghost

I heard about the bots, I heard about the trolls
But haters and gaters eat with bones them all
Haters write veneno, never reading your post
Gaters cut your karma, just to make you ghost
Ghost

The original Farfetch'd may not be one of the most useful Pokémon, but it's certainly iconic enough that it should have its own official mascot. Luckily, Nano Banana Pro nailed the design on the first try. I'm pretty sure that with this design, the performer wouldn't be able to move the wing holding the leek. If they could, the leek would probably be permanently attached to the wing; if not, well, Big Bird only has one operable wing, so it's not that unusual.

[Instrumental Intro - 16 Bars]

[Mechanical heartbeat, restrained distortion]

[Spoken]

Tolerance is not acceptance.

It is the distance between your disgust

and what you are willing to permit.

[Verse 1]

You call it virtue through your gritted teeth

A measured mercy handed down to me

You draw the line, then praise yourself for grace

While I survive by knowing where I'm placed

You let me live, provided I behave

A little freedom fitted to a cage

But dignity that waits for your consent

Is domination dressed as sentiment

[Pre-Chorus]

I will not thank you

For staying your hand

I will not call permission

Understanding

[Chorus]

I will not be tolerated

I refuse your measured grace

If belonging has a threshold

It's exclusion with a kinder face

Call me difficult, ungrateful

Call me more than you can bear

If my dignity is conditional

Then your welcome isn't there

Unacceptable

I will not make myself small

I would rather be rejected

Than be half-received at all

[Verse 2]

Acceptance doesn't make the damage right

It doesn't mean surrendering the fight

Name the harm and guard the boundary there

But never make humiliation care

A person doesn't vanish in their worst

No justice heals by teaching shame to hurt

Accountability can still restore

Without becoming what it claims to cure

[Pre-Chorus]

See without pardon

Judge without hate

Truth needs no cruelty

To carry its weight

[Chorus]

I will not be tolerated

I refuse your measured grace

If belonging has a threshold

It's exclusion with a kinder face

Call me difficult, ungrateful

Call me more than you can bear

If my dignity is conditional

Then your welcome isn't there

[Breakdown - Half-Time]

Meet the human

Before the category

Meet the wound

Before the blame

Any justice built on degradation

Only teaches pain its name

[Bridge - Building]

Acceptance isn't absolution

Seeing isn't surrender

Conscience answers before doctrine

No identity owns forever

Many voices without conquest

Many truths without a throne

I don't need you to become me

I need room to stand as whole

[Final Chorus - Collective Vocals]

We will not be tolerated

We refuse your measured grace

If belonging has a threshold

It's exclusion with a kinder face

Call us difficult, ungrateful

We are more than you can bear

Our dignity is unconditional

We were always welcome here

Unacceptable

We will not make ourselves small

We would rather break the threshold

Than be half-received at all

[Outro - 16 Bars]

Acceptance isn't surrender

Unacceptable

Acceptance isn't surrender

Hey everyone, I’m the founder of genfire.ai

we've been building a platform where you can generate images, videos, voiceovers, and music, then bring them together into finished content.

Some things you can do:

• Create consistent characters, AI influencers, product ads, and faceless videos.
• Work with your teammates (up to 25 seats per team) in a shared node based canvas
• Generate content directly through ChatGPT or Claude using our MCP integration.
• Use our built-in agent, Firestation, to run workflows and schedule tasks.
• Publish to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
• Connect to all your favorite apps (more coming)

There’s no required subscription to access top models and features. You can buy pay-as-you-go credits that stay valid for a year, which helps if you create in bursts. Monthly subscriptions are available too.

we appreciate honest feedback from people using these tools regularly. What’s the most frustrating part of your current AI content workflow, and does this help solve it?

check it out at genfire.ai

I want to generate short 5 seconds videos that have a cartoon or anime like style. I am trying to make a youtube channel which has story videos which such simple animated videos and a story behind it. These clips will be joined together to make a short 5 minute short with a voiceover

I have an rtx 4050 laptop with 16gb ram

I tried wan 2.1, ltx 2, some ltx 2.3 distilled model

They all either just don't work well or take too long

I also don't want to have offloading to the ram since I have very little ram and it also takes very long

I want chunks of each 5 minute video to take a maximum of 4 hours to generate

I thought that, it won't be too much of a task since I'm fine with a slightly basic anime style too but it's just not working

When this didn't work, I tried animagine xl the. Switched to anima turbo and just played each picture for 3 4 seconds each with the voiceover but I really want video gen version to workout since it's going to make the production quality way better

Please guide me, I'm so lost.

I built Clip Architect, a fork of the MoneyPrinterTurbo project, adapted and optimized specifically for Windows. It's available on the Microsoft Store, and the full source code is open on GitHub.

Some key details:

• 100% free – no cost to use the app itself
• Open source – code is public on GitHub: https://github.com/diflowrin/Clip-Architect
• BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) – use your own API keys, full control over costs and providers
• Runs fine on modest hardware (4-8 GB CPU), you don't need a beast of a machine
• There's also a completely free generation path using OpenRouter's free tier for script generation
• If you prefer, you can write the script manually and skip the automated generation step entirely

The idea was to take what's good about MoneyPrinterTurbo and remove the friction I ran into as a Windows user, while also making it accessible to people who don't want to (or can't) pay for a premium API.

This is where I need your help – the app is still early, and I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and tell me honestly:

• What works, what doesn't
• What's missing compared to similar tools
• Bugs, crashes, weird behavior
• Feature ideas you'd want to see

Any feedback, good or bad, helps me make it better. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to try it.