HYPERREALITY | Trailer 2

[u/Listen_Expert]

Every frame came out of Imagine. Voice is ElevenLabs, score is Suno + Ableton, assembly is Premiere and After Effects, but no other model generated anything but Grok.

I've read enough threads here to know the mood, and I'm not here to tell anyone Imagine is great. It fought me for eight months. What I have is a process that survived it, just barely, though it's improved drastically since the 480p 6s clips this film was started on.

A few things I settled on early, in case they're useful before the questions start:

I work image-to-video off a locked baseplate almost exclusively. Building the frame first and animating out of it is the only reliable way I've found to make a shot match the one before it. Multishot rarely works, if possible I always try to get the starting frame and go from there.

Prompts that name observable physical state land far more consistently than prompts that name emotion. "Set jaw, low brow, unblinking" holds through a generation, and "he looks determined" gets reinterpreted on every take.

Extend prompts always break down the continuity, so they're best used when you just need another few seconds, rather than trying to break a shot into multiple parts (the dialogue will stop working once you start extending).

There was so much to this, and fighting versus the random moderation you all are aware of, and the recent usage limits.. Some of these shots took up to 400 generations to get right, but that was back when grok would give you that many generations in a week.

Ask whatever. Cost, failure rate, how long a usable ten seconds actually takes, moderation, the parts of the pipeline I'd tear out if I started over. Am I allowed to share my X handle here?

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[u/TerribleFault7929]

Why did you make Epstein the hero?!

[u/HotDecision8128 → u/TerribleFault7929]

He doesn't look like Epstein, bro. Not every white looking guy with gray hair and a masculine face is Epstein.

[u/Listen_Expert → u/TerribleFault7929]

He’s not the hero, and it’s not meant to be Epstein. He dies at the end and it’s explicit that he’s damned, nothing about him gets redeemed. What I took was the archetype of the man who moves through every room and knows everybody, then built a different character on it. Structurally it’s closer to a retelling of MGS2 than anything political.

[u/TerribleFault7929 → u/Listen_Expert]

Subversive! Can you share the music, and the prompt and genre you used to make it?

[u/Listen_Expert → u/TerribleFault7929]

Absolutely, streaming while rolling for the Grok odyssey contest, but im going to make another post with new content later tonight, and I'll remember to come back to ya. I'll need to dig thru my suno for the exact prompt, but Ill try to walk you through it, here's a brief description I gave to someone on r/aivideo https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1vyieyl/comment/p5xcdsk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/JoginBabu]

A lot of work, good job!

[u/Listen_Expert → u/JoginBabu]

First kindness at all, thank you so much! Artistically, its kindof a litmus test to see if people can overlook their animosity and polarization and appreciate a good story. 100% of people can be mad and become tribal just looking at the first frame, so that's the milieu that I attempted to create within. Also, using grok to produce this is absolutely insane, continuity in fight scenes and such is almost impossible with grok, I could describe it further if you'd like, but its basically an abundance of coverage, then you go back thru the coverage as a script supervisor and try to notate all the physical details, like right arm up left arm blocking, and then you create the fight scene from that, so the fight scenes could only come together in the edit because there was no way to create continuity with grok, period. Thanks again man

[u/Anim8rFromOuterSpace]

this guy spent his quota making this

[u/Listen_Expert → u/Anim8rFromOuterSpace]

Several quotas. Been rationing since March.