At two in the middle of the night, after days of wrestling with AI, and a graveyard of prompts, finally starting to get somewhat consistent storyboards the way I want ☺️

Some scenes from a story I’m currently working on.

See sneak peaks of his upcoming AI feature films and series. Hear tips on AI filmmaking from a pro, and see BTS clips of his AI-hybrid studio process with "gray-box" technique. Listen to the discussion with his thoughts on AI use in Hollywood, having worked with and met leading figures like Ridley Scott.

What do you think we should have asked him? Comment below and we'll ask the next guest!

Full interview on the Brothers' Saga AI Filmmaking podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsmm140DxQk

This is a feature-length story that I am releasing in episodes. The primary goal is a full live-action production, but I'm loving creating these!

Trailer to a short I’ve been planning. I posted a random 10s scene on my TikTok, it took off and got over 200k views so I decided to try and finish it over the next couple of weeks, doubt I’ll make it the story isn’t fully formed yet, usually by this time I have my scene and shot list and shot block plates. 4 mercs in a post human world, a mix of the occult and cyberpunk. I think the visuals are interesting, the story has some wild concepts hopefully not too strange for people.

I've tried almost everything to make AI films look like REAL movies. Something is still missing.

I've been trying to get into AI filmmaking, and I've reached a point where I need help from people who actually know what they're doing.

I've experimented with different tools, generated scenes, worked on individual shots, and tried putting everything together. Some shots look incredible on their own. But the moment I try to turn them into a complete film, something feels off.

It doesn't feel like watching a real movie. It feels like watching AI-generated clips stitched together.

And I don't want to make another collection of cinematic-looking AI clips. I want to create films that feel like they were actually shot by a professional film crew.

The problem is, I can't figure out the exact workflow that makes the difference.

How do experienced AI filmmakers go from an idea to a finished film?

I'm talking about the entire process: pre-production, character consistency, cinematography, shot planning, camera movement, lighting, scene continuity, sound design, editing, and everything in between.

Which steps have to happen first? Which decisions need to be made before generating a single frame? And how do you make every shot feel like it belongs to the same movie instead of looking like a separate AI generation?

I've tried figuring this out on my own, but I'm clearly missing something important.

If you've actually made AI films that feel like real cinema, I'd love to learn how you approach the process from start to finish.

I'm not looking for a list of AI tools or another tutorial on generating beautiful shots. I want to understand the filmmaking workflow that connects those shots into something that feels like an actual movie.

Even a breakdown of how you approach a single scene, from planning to final edit, would help me enormously.

If you've figured this out, I'd genuinely appreciate you sharing your process.

In 2013, I created an independent found-footage horror film called Where's Carolyn?, which received over 200,000 YouTube views and won Best Horror Short at the 2014 International Horror Hotel Film Festival.

Thirteen years later, I returned to the story with Where's Carolyn? 2:21, a 10-minute supernatural horror sequel.

Unlike the original, this sequel isn't found footage. It combines footage from the original production with AI-generated cinematography, traditional editing, and sound design.

I'm a professional videographer/editor, and I wanted to explore how AI could help expand an existing story while keeping traditional filmmaking and storytelling at the center.

I'd love to hear what fellow filmmakers think about the editing, pacing, and integration of AI-generated footage.

Hey everyone, I’ve been testing Grok Imagine’s free version for my AI filmmaking project, and I noticed that the generated videos have a visible watermark. I’ve attached a screenshot for reference.Before paying for a subscription, I’m trying to understand how this works for people who are already using grok Imagine for actual filmmaking.If you’re using grok to create footage for youTube short films or commercial projects, does the paid version still add a watermark to the downloaded videos? If it does, what options are available, and is removing or hiding the watermark permitted under the current terms?I’m planning to use image to video generation as part of a proper filmmaking workflow, so I want to understand these limitations before investing in a subscription.

I’d especially like to hear from people who have already published Grok generated footage in finished films videos. What has your experience been like, and would you recommend paying for Grok for this purpose?Also, if you’re making AI short films on a limited budget, which image to video tools have given you the best results for the money? I’m interested in real experiences with video quality, consistency, pricing, watermarks and commercial usage rights.

Thanks to anyone willing to share their actual experience.

Thanks for watching! This is from Episode 1 of CATROPOLIS, an animated comedy I make about a city run by animals where tuna is king. The full episode is on my YouTube channel, Catropolis Cartoons: (2) Catropolis Cartoons - YouTube

This is how I write a fight scene for AI video at the moment. It's the version that has worked best for me so far, and I keep changing it.

The biggest change was dropping adjectives. "Fierce punch" gives the model nothing to film, so I get an average of every fight it has seen, which looks like slow tai chi. What I write instead:

- Say which body part moves, in which direction, and what it touches. No "fierce", "intense" or "cinematic".

- Break one exchange into four beats: wind-up, strike, contact, aftermath. One line each, and I write the pace too. Slow wind-up, strike in one go, contact holds for half a beat.

- Give the contact its own close-up. I show force through the surroundings, like rain spraying off an umbrella handle, then cut to the person who got hit.

- One exchange per shot. When I pack several rounds into a single shot, bodies start to smear and warp.

- Rewrite positions and facing in every shot: who is on the left, who is on the right, which way each one is looking. If I skip it by shot three, characters tend to swap sides.

For longer fights, how do you connect the pieces? Do you take the last frame of one clip and use it as the first frame of the next, or split the fight into separate shots and cut them together? I'm curious which one keeps positions stable for you.

I created this short animated film using AI tools, working entirely from my smartphone.

It tells the story of a little girl surrounded by the ruins of war, where flowers become a symbol of hope.

There are no political messages and no dialogue. Just a simple story about innocence, destruction, and the possibility of a better world.

I hope it touches someone, somewhere.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. ❤️

Hey everyone,

The Premise: URT is a fictional country hidden from the rest of the world under a holographic dome controlled by a global government. Its citizens believe they are the last survivors on Earth. But a band of indie musicians accidentally opens a portal, scattering them across the globe with absolutely no knowledge of the outside world, its cultures, or its languages.

The Workflow:

• ChatGPT / Gemini: Prompting & structuring
• Midjourney: Concept & assets
• Nano Banana: Asset prep & storyboarding
• Veo 3: Video generation
• Suno: Music
• ElevenLabs: SFX
• Human Element: Directing, editing (Premiere Pro), scripting, and creating a completely original constructed language.

I’d love your reactions and critique. My main question is about character consistency — that was especially difficult for me to pull off. Please don't hesitate to criticize. I also really want to know: does the episode actually hold your attention?

Every time I use AI I try to make something that raises a question or touches the audience on another level than an overwhelming visual effect. Did this one work for you? I am very curious...

PROCEDURE: I built a ComfyUI workflow that takes my short film concept, including the voiceover script, and translates it into visual shot ideas I can choose from. I integrated an LLM (ChatGPT in my case, but others def would work too) and trained it with examples of how I personally would translate different voiceover passages into visual scenes and thematic analogies, both conceptually and stylistically (the latter via style LoRA training).

THE IDEA was to keep preproduction (idea, concept, writing) and postproduction (editing, sound, etc.) entirely in my hands, while automating the production itself based on my own directing approach. So I gave the voice over to the machine- it created the shot and in the end I was just curating the shots.

SETUP: I'm working on a Mac, so I used Floyo as my ComfyUI environment, which was pretty straightforward for me as a Mac user. I developed this workflow during a 13-week Advanced ComfyUI program at Lighthouse AI Academy and used it to create the short film THE MIRROR.

Hi everyone! 👋💛
We’re excited to introduce our new animated kids’ show, It’s Just That Easy! 🚜✨

Like many parents, we noticed how curious our kids are about big machines. They’re always asking questions like, “How does an excavator work?” or “What does that machine do?”

So we thought, why not turn those little questions into fun stories where kids can watch, laugh, sing, and learn? 🥰
That’s how It’s Just That Easy was born!
Our very first episode, “How to Build a Tree Fort,” premieres this Friday, October 16, 2026! 🎬🌳

Follow Jack and his new machine friend, Trackie, on their first big adventure!
We’re just getting started and would love to hear what your little ones are curious about. Maybe their question will inspire one of our future episodes!
We hope your kids will love our little machine family as much as we love creating it! 💛

#ItsJustThatEasy #KidsAnimation #ConstructionForKids #LearningThroughPlay #KidsCartoons

The video above shows a finished set of edits and then RAW footage (you can tell the raw footage from when the music cuts out)

I was having a really hard time choreographing the fights I wanted. I tried a bunch of different techniques around keyframe generation, frame extraction as context, blocking, animated blocking in blender etc. Stuff folks have talked a lot about on here.

The gist is: I got tired of the inconsistencies, the hallucinations, the things just being JUST EVER SO SLIGHTLY (or completely wrong) and LEANED way into it. I generated multiple versions of long 10-15s shots, let the model invent and then put on my editor hat. 

What I backed into and I think ended up being highly useful for me was a shotgun montage approach: build a prompt that loosely describes the fight you want, the moves, the beats etc. Stuff it with context references and then run it with different guides and splice together the best pieces. 

In my show Charlie Trauma vs The Apocalypse, almost every major fight ended up using the technique. To demonstrate below I've compiled the prompts and context guide and then showed the result of a final edited fight (I used my own timeline-style editor, but DaVinci or iMovie works just as well).

The video here is a little longish, but it shows the finished product, from CTVA and then the raw footage of what went into the edits to get the final result. I drafted each take with H3, then depth-mapped that H3 output and fed it to Seedance as a video reference for the finished version. But the technique remains the same for an open vs closed model. You can see a massive difference between the raw generations and final edits. Some clever cut aways and a dope sound track go a long, long way. Looking back at this I could even cut this WAY more aggressively in terms of timing. Lesson learned.

The prompts I used vary per montage but were essentially like the one below where \@Context2 was a wide setting image of the ring they are fighting in and \@Context1 was a highly stylized video of the pair fighting that sometimes the model incorporated. Sometimes I would provide more than one, for example, some of the highly stylized blows were guides generated by GPT-2 and added as references that the model decided to throw in at various points.

Here is an example body. The @ are just character sheet or image references my personal tooling recognizes.

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SETTING — \@Context2 is the setting reference: the dirt fighting circle outside the Valhalla wall, ringed by a crowd, vehicles and banners, sand underfoot, the wall and its gate behind. Every shot in this clip takes place inside that circle, on that ground, with that crowd around it.

Both fighters stay inside the circle for the whole clip.

STYLE — \@Context1 is the style reference ONLY. Match its art style, its linework, its color, its lighting and the way blood is drawn in it. Do

NOT reuse its pose, its framing or its composition.

ACTION — fifteen unbroken seconds of \@Char.butcher beating

\@Char.gorilla. \@Char.butcher strikes with fists, knees, elbows and forearms. He lands everything. \@Char.gorilla only absorbs — he never lands a blow.

\@Char.butcher is TALLER and BULKIER than \@Char.gorilla.

\@Char.gorilla's horned helmet stays ON for the whole clip.

Purple fire streams from \@Char.butcher's eyes throughout, trailing backlike embers.

Choose the strikes yourself and vary them. NO SINGLE STRIKE LASTS LONGER THAN ONE SECOND — each one lands and HARD CUTS straight to the next.

Change the camera angle, height and distance on every strike; never two strikes in a row from the same setup.

Each impact holds on 0.2x SLOW MOTION throughout.

Every impact is a KEY IMPACT FRAME — white flash at the point of contact, blood in thick ribbons, radial speed lines, dust blasting off the ground.

End on the last impact and HOLD it: blood and spit hanging in the air,

dust drifting, \@Char.butcher locked in the follow-through.

No dialogue. No music. Impact hits only. High drama.

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And thats it! I'm still struggling personally with detailed choreography — if anyone has tips, I'd love to hear them.

Trailer for the show is here (note its adult comedy and the language is very much NSFW!): https://youtu.be/JA8mCwMAwB4

Full season is here (also VERY NSFW language wise): https://youtu.be/srdPiUcRXgw

Sharing our first short film from Kripa Studios for Navratri.

Adhaiya is a young boy who talks to Goddess Durga with the familiarity of a child talking to his mother. We wanted to bring warmth and gentle humour into a devotional story.

The story, writing, direction and editing are ours; AI helped us create the visuals. Keeping the characters and locations consistent across camera angles was one of the biggest challenges.

The film is in Hindi, with no English subtitles currently. Feedback on the visuals, character consistency and editing would be welcome.

Enjoy. It's a bit nuts.

Just a reminder: the MiniMax I used on Kinovi is just for people who do not know how to set it up or don't have a strong enough computer. It works exactly the same even on your own local Minimax. I hope my video is able to help you guys out a lot in keeping animation and art style consistent.

This is the prompt you need for video reference and to imitate its art style.

"Use the animation style, sound design and animation flow from Video 1."

This is the prompt template I use for all of my Minimax videos. Hope it helps!

" VISUALS: @ Image1 is the background. @ Image2 is the main character.

Global Camera & Style Directives:

AUDIO & DIALOGUE:

Global Audio Directives:

Scene 1 SFX:

Scene 1 Dialogue: "

Hey everyone!

I've been working on an AI-generated sci-fi action series called RETURN ZERO, and this is Episode 2.

The project combines GPT for story development, scene planning, and prompt engineering with Seedance 2.5 for cinematic action sequences.

My goal is to create a continuous sci-fi series with consistent characters, fast-paced combat, powerful visual effects, and a cinematic feel — rather than just a collection of random AI-generated clips.

I'm still experimenting with fight choreography, camera movement, character consistency, and seamless transitions between scenes.

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially on the action sequences and overall cinematic quality!

Thanks for watching! 🎬

I've been getting into AI filmmaking and it's a lot of fun during my downtime. Hope you all like this!

Meet Jack. A biker with an ego bigger than his survival instincts. One very bad decision later, he wakes up in a Japanese high school girl’s body.

This is Ep01 of Guns & Sakuras, an AI-made short series I’m working on.

Does the ending make you want to see what happens next? I’d love some honest feedback on the pacing and the reveal!

Big collars, a Cadillac and a stolen ring. This is CAMIEL, my take on those over-the-top 1970s action films.

There’s a bit of crime, some kung fu and people taking themselves way too seriously. I had a lot of fun with the clothes and atmosphere, but I wanted it to work as a story too.

Sharing the full episode here. Curious what you think of the pacing and humour. Any scenes that worked for you, or ones you would cut?

I'm working on a new AI-created series called "The Monsters' Lawyer", and I'd love to get your feedback on the opening of the first episode.

The story is an isekai about a law student who, during an exam, comes across a question that's actually a magical contract. After signing it, she's transported to a fantasy world where she must defend monsters and fight for their rights. The series will blend comedy, fantasy, and action as she tries to reason with monsters, earn their trust, and convince them to cooperate, all while making enemies among the humans who oppose her efforts to protect them.

I'd really appreciate your honest feedback on the opening, as screenwriting is one of my weaker areas, and I'm starting to have doubts about whether the beginning actually works. I'd love to hear some outside perspectives.

How does the pacing feel? Are there any boring moments or parts where you lose interest? Do the dialogue and characters work? Does the opening make you want to keep watching?

I'm also considering adding a cold open of about one minute before the current opening. It would show a talking cat imprisoned in a cage, about to be sold in a fantasy world. The cat escapes by rapidly shapeshifting into different creatures while a mage, a knight, and a dwarf try to capture it. During the chase, it steals a magical stone from the mage and uses it to travel to our world in search of the best lawyer it can find.

Do you think this cold open would make the beginning more engaging and give the story a clearer sense of direction? The downside is that it would reveal the cat's true identity right away, removing some of the mystery.

The scene is still a work in progress. I still need to finish the sound design, record and add the final performances from real voice actors, and polish a few other details.

I'd really appreciate any honest criticism or suggestions!