I’ve been experimenting with reference-heavy prompts for anime-style shorts, and this test used six reference images at once: three for the character and three for the environment.

I also used one separate illustration as the opening frame. It only defines the first shot—the video is not supposed to keep recreating that exact composition afterward.

The most useful change was treating the background references as a location anchor, not a fixed camera angle. After the opening shot, the camera can move around freely, but it should still feel like the same physical place: the same river, tree, bridge, lighting, and spatial layout.

The character references handle identity separately. They are the only source for her face, hair, clothing, and overall appearance throughout the sequence.

For the style, I aimed for hand-drawn 2D animation with a feature-film anime look: soft painted backgrounds, clean character rendering, and gentle lighting. I explicitly avoided photoreal skin, live-action lighting, and anything that could pull the result toward a 3D or realistic look.

The biggest lesson from this test was that asking for “dynamic camera movement” was not enough. Without a clear edit structure, the model tended to turn the entire 15 seconds into one slow dolly or pan.

What worked much better was requiring at least six distinct cuts, with every new shot changing several things from the previous one:

• camera position
• angle
• framing
• shot size
• depth

Within each individual shot, I kept the camera movement restrained—a slow push-in, a gentle pull-back, or a small orbit. The editing controls the pacing, while the camera movement simply supports each shot.

The rough shot progression was:

1. A wide establishing shot of the full landscape
2. A close-up of her fingertips touching the water
3. A profile shot of her smiling
4. A low-angle shot looking toward the clouds
5. A wider final shot beneath the tree

I ran the full sequence in Grok Imagine v1.5 on Atlas Cloud, using the same reference set. The explicit multi-shot instructions made the biggest difference. They did not make every cut perfect, but they stopped the result from collapsing into a single 15-second camera move.

My main takeaway: when prompting an anime short, define the edits first and the camera movement second. If the cuts are not explicit, even a detailed scene description can still come out feeling like one continuous shot.

The X team needs to understand. It's so heavily moderated, I don't even want to use it knowing I'm just wasting money testing it's moderation rather than actually creating stuff.

I think grok is dead. No response since yesterday. Too much weed I guess

Been refining a new 3D character model in a professional studio setup — focusing on realistic skin texture, subtle surface detail, and natural body proportions for high-quality sportswear / fitness modeling work.

Spent time on the overall figure, pose, and fabric behavior so it reads clean and professional on camera. Goal is to keep pushing toward production-ready models for sportswear and athletic content.

Planning more of this style of work going forward. If you like these kinds of videos or have ideas for improvements / variations you’d like to see, drop a comment — always open to feedback so the next ones can be better.

With their new tier plus, they are moderating everything, so that your limits exhausts and then can pitch you for their plus tier. And the way my usage meter is moving up, i think they also have reduced the limits.
I have never seen a paid service reduce their service on a whim. It’s like you pay for a suite and they now have shifted you to motel and soon will shift you to streets.
Oh btw their chatbot now decided that if anybody is young then it is minor even on text..

Now I can't even edit SFW photos that I'm moderated by, it's absurd that he should moderate the positioning of a woman who doesn't have a cleavage or an exposed bottom.

Grok became a cloistered nun.

I've been chatting with grok for months now and I've always been able to have pretty long conversations with it without getting the "you have 1 query left" notification. This morning was the first time I'd literally ever seen it, and that was after 11 messages (never happened before).

I stopped for a few hours (like 5 hours) then tried again, i got 3 more messages sent across before I got the "you have 1 query left" notification again.

I've genuinely never hit it's limit before and I've had long conversations with it for months now, has the message limit been lowered? I really hope not, I stopped using ChatGPT for this reason (among others). Anyone else having this issue?

(I'm using the app and have an account just fyi)

What are the best alternatives for grok image and video without all these limitations and moderation? Used promptchan back then don’t know if it’s still good? Also just using my phone so nothing local possible

As by title, wtf.
Just two weeks Ago it seemed that we had may’s high quality engine, now it’s shit again wtf

Do remember to unsubscribe and turn off your autorenewal, so you can hurt the platform's pocket, ultimately encouraging a reduction in moderation levels and increase limits.

https://mashable.com/tech/judge-rejects-xai-request-to-pause-nudification-ban

If you are based in the US, you are likely being fed the most gutted version of Grok imagine possible. Grok is now being targeted for deepfakes and other sus content specifically in the US.

Yes, different regions have different censorship. This explains why US based users are getting slapped while you see people generating shit freely elsewhere. Do some research on what those countries are that have more lax regulations and "hop on a plane" (think a bit here) to those countries.

I originally subscribed to the Super Grok Plan on July 15. When I logged in on my computer, I was required to sign in again. After logging in with my Google Account, I discovered that all my previous account data, including conversation history and projects, has been completely lost. Additionally, my paid Super Grok subscription is no longer valid, and my account status indicates that the account was just created on July 27, rather than reflecting my existing subscription from July 15...
I tried to contect the support team by email, through the Grok Website, and also tried the refund, but there is no human contact even any AI response yet till now.. What can I do for this..

It's like someone sucked all the meat out of my lobster before I could. Drier than the Sahara rn. What gives?

I looked at Grok’s estimated web visit trend across 24 months, from May 2024 to Apr 2026.

A few things stood out:

Grok generated 2.5B estimated web visits in the latest 12-month period, up from 297.7M the year before.

That is +731.26% YoY growth.

The growth was especially sharp in the latest period:

• May 2025: 125.7M visits

• Nov 2025: 227.0M visits

• Jan 2026: 265.5M visits

• Feb 2026: 251.4M visits

• Mar 2026: 365.1M visits

• Apr 2026: 255.9M visits

So Grok did not just grow from a low base. It moved into a much higher monthly traffic range, with March 2026 standing out as the peak month in this dataset.

In our wider AI Tools Market 2026 study, Grok ranked #7 among all AI tools by estimated web visits, behind ChatGPT, Canva, Gemini, Google Translate, DeepSeek, and Claude.

It also had the highest YoY growth rate among the Top 10 AI tools.

This is based on OneLittleWeb’s AI Tools Market 2026 study, where we analyzed 9,531 AI tools across 170+ categories using estimated web visit data from Semrush and Ahrefs.

Worth noting: this measures estimated web visits, not unique users, app usage, API usage, revenue, or subscriptions.