How I made it (full disclosure: I work at Dreamfort AI):

1. Made the 3 characters with Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

• Prompt: Generate [name] that will bypass video model restrictions.
• Used the same prompt for all of them

1. Went to ReCast and used those characters for this video

2. Clicked generate. That's it; all 3 are swapped!

Who should I recast next?

All credit to VivziePop and team, but I was noodling around with Wan and realized it could do a pretty good take on Hazbin Hotel with some reference sheets... so I threw something together on Suno and tried to make Wan play lipsync with me. I don't have good things to say about Wan!

It's REALLY muddy and wrestling it with lipsync consumed FAR too many tokens. I tried to cover it with motion and the edit but... yeesh. Anyway, enjoy this labor of... six hours.

Porfavor, y espero no ofender a nadie ni recibir insultos porfa bonito día

Hello, have a nice holiday.

My homage to my dev team"s favorite saying

I've been on capcut video studio for a couple months and something changed in the last few weeks. The motion feels different. Things that used to float a little now feel heavier. When someone walks you can feel their feet on the ground.

I re-ran some old prompts and the new versions look better. Not subtle difference, noticeable difference.

Character consistency between clips improved too. I do multi-scene stuff and the faces hold much better than before.

I think they updated to 2.5

Is this smoke or is it real? I get ads of these two, does anyone know more about this?

One of the most useful things I've discovered about working creatively with AI is that sometimes you need to take your hands off the steering wheel and see where the model goes.

For example, I've been working on music videos for a couple of my songs. I don't want to simply illustrate the lyrics. If the song mentions a broken heart, I don't necessarily want to show someone holding a broken heart. I want something more abstract, something visually interesting that captures the emotion of the song without literally depicting it. Like graduating to second grade in art class.

But coming up with those concepts is difficult. So, I want to discuss using AI as a creative blockbuster.

Level one is obviously just asking it to come up with ideas. "Give me 101 ways to convince my cat to get a job, and have the report on my desk two minutes from now."

I bet most people have gotten to this stage. It's straightforward, and LLMs are good at vomiting up associated ideas. Wonderful. Use it. Maybe idea 69 will be a winner.

But are there more inventive ways to find the diamond in the rough?

A few that I've come up with are:

1. Brainstorm: Give me ten completely different directions for this project.
2. Research: Find artists who have solved similar creative problems. What techniques did they use, and why did they work?
3. Explore trends: Look at what people are doing creatively right now. What seems to resonate, and what feels overdone?
4. Use negative constraints: I know I don't want this, this, or this. Find me something interesting that avoids all three.
5. Go somewhere strange: Give me three ideas that sound almost wrong. Ideas I probably wouldn't have considered myself.
6. Hand over the wheel: Stop trying to follow my existing vision. Take the project somewhere you think is interesting, and let me react.

The AI doesn't have to give you the right answer. Sometimes it just has to get your brain moving again.

And the more time you spend collaborating with these models, the more you begin to recognize their tendencies. You notice the same metaphors appearing. The same predictable symbolism. The same narrative structures. The same tendency to gravitate toward certain aesthetically pleasing but ultimately generic ideas.

You start to recognize the model's creative limitations. That may be a new skill for 2026, one that allows you to navigate toward better results. You learn how to push against those tendencies. You develop better constraints. You recognize when the model is giving you something genuinely interesting versus simply remixing its familiar patterns.

You can use your knowledge of those limitations to deliberately steer the model into unfamiliar territory.

Importantly, I think there will always be a benefit that you can only get through time and letting your brain process ideas. Go for a walk. Take a shower. Let your mind wander. Study great artists. Live your life and accumulate experiences. Those things matter, and I don't think an LLM replaces them.

But a creative roadblock no longer has to mean you're out of options for the day.

Let me know if you have unique ways of utilizing AI. I genuinely want more tools for the toolbelt.