Every creator we've taken apart, with the tools that produced the work. Filter by what they make, what they run, or how they get there.
03 Aug
Ozavry has posted more than ninety numbered chapters of one dark-fantasy world, all of it in the same bruised magenta and blue. Nobody has written down how it's made.
03 Aug
PJ Ace, Kelly Boesch, Neural Viz and Mr Relative have all ended up making films with the same video model — and each one came to it through a different app they were already using. Nobody went looking for Seedance.
01 Aug
Kavan the Kid photographs himself in masks he owns before a single frame gets generated. Ten years of music videos on small budgets taught him where AI actually fits.
31 Jul
Niceaunties has been covered everywhere as a culture story. Almost nobody has written down how she actually builds the Auntieverse — one still image at a time, 25 to 30 prompts deep.
27 Jul
Micah Alhadeff builds 3D bodies that come apart into shards and neon, teaches game engines at a university, and has shown work across 1,000 Belgian billboards.
27 Jul
YZA Voku makes black-and-white AI short films that win Runway's Gen:48, and runs an Andalucía studio whose Works page lists The Weeknd and The Sphere.
27 Jul
GLOOMSTOMPER is the same anonymous artist as Voidstomper, working the same broken-AI aesthetic toward something with a plot — dark fantasy, dialogue, and a world that carries over between films.
26 Jul
Gossip Goblin gave away a 28-minute science fiction film on July 22, the same day the trades reported his feature is going to theaters in October.
24 Jul
GEDDYRUXPIN's AI short films look like water-damaged 1963 television — morphing faces, alien henchmen in business suits, and no name attached to any of it.
24 Jul
Disney Jr's first YouTube preschool series appeared on July 15 with no press release. It was co-developed with Animaj — the studio that trained animation models on 300,000 Pocoyo sketches and publishes its pipeline like an engineering blog.
23 Jul
People keep typing the same question into search: how does this creator actually make their videos? We've been asking them directly. Here's what five of the processes really look like — scripts, storyboards, hundreds of discarded generations, and a lot of editing.
22 Jul
The Frog Mage has built a dark fantasy world across Instagram, TikTok, and Spotify — memes, official music videos, and a Runway AI partnership.
22 Jul
Caspar Jade is the AI alias of a Berlin photographer who spent 16 years shooting magazine covers. For 15 months his project The Unreal People posted a portrait of a fictional person every day, each with a life story — 471 people who never existed.
21 Jul
Tropland Universe is a digital animal kingdom — photoreal lions and tigers doing impossible things, every caption disclosing the AI and promising no animal was caged, trained, or harmed. It started as a children's book about a juice bar in 2013.
20 Jul
PJ Ace made the AI ad that ran during the NBA Finals for about $2,000 in three days — then published the entire workflow. Fifteen years of directing, 300-400 Veo generations, and a rule about never asking Gemini for more than 5 prompts at a time.
20 Jul
imoliver was the first Suno creator signed to a real record label. He writes every lyric himself, then generates up to 100 versions of a song before one earns a release — a designer's process applied to music he cannot sing or play.
20 Jul
Xania Monet was the first AI act to land on a Billboard radio chart. Behind her is Telisha Jones, a Mississippi poet who writes every lyric herself, feeds them to Suno, and kept her songwriting credits when the reported $3M deal came.
19 Jul
The anonymous Head Curator writes every word by hand, generates the imagery in Midjourney, and refuses to call the AI part "art." Four years, two books, a members-funded living, and exactly one interview — here's the full picture of how The Archive In Between actually works.
18 Jul
Korean AI artist daejin.creates works at the meeting point of design, psychology, and AI — making quiet, inward images and short motion pieces in a feed built for speed.
17 Jul
Ryan McCoy is a 20-year VFX veteran building elaborate sci-fi civilizations with AI — one prompt at a time, sometimes two full workdays per image. Around 440,000 people on Instagram are paying attention.
16 Jul
STR4NGETHING is an anonymous AI artist who went viral in 2022 by dressing Renaissance figures in Nike and Louis Vuitton. They built a whole theory about why it looks right — and then built a career around it.
15 Jul
An anonymous account has been posting a new AI sci-fi world almost every day since 2023 — no name, no face, just the films and the tools he credits under each one.
15 Jul
cursejourney makes AI horror styled to look like found photographs — sepia, grainy, wrong in the way the genre can use. Built in Phoenix since 2023, with a "photos i found in the basement" series and an AIGA Arizona nod for the piece that broke out.
15 Jul
Mr. Relative has been making AI art about human collective behavior since late 2021, under one stated premise: AI was trained on everything we've made, so it's the right tool for looking at us. This summer he put "This is Humanity" in a physical gallery.
14 Jul
Julien Durand is a mechanical engineer by training. He's also a CivitAI Award-winning AI artist with 323,000 Instagram followers — and the two things are more connected than they look.
13 Jul
Manuela Klauser makes "Soft Goth Surrealism" with AI — dark, gothic figures with a pop-whimsy undercurrent that's shown up at the Saatchi Gallery and across international AI art exhibitions. Here's how she actually does it.
06 Jul
Julian van Dieken is a photographer and educator who started an AI account just to learn something new — and ended up with his image hanging in the Mauritshuis in place of Vermeer. His actual process is worth knowing about.
04 Jul
Kelly Boesch spent 17 years at IMAX before AI gave her a way to make the work she'd always wanted to make. The process is worth studying.
02 Jul
Neural Viz makes coherent, episodic AI television — a whole alien TV network — as one person. Here's the actual workflow, tool by tool, and why a decade of craft is the part that still matters.
10 Jun
Charles Lopez shot for GQ before turning to AI. His work still looks like 1985 film photography. The background isn't obsolete—it's the whole point.
08 May
Gossip Goblin says AI image generation takes "zero skill." That sounds like the gatekeepers were right — until you actually watch him work.
01 May
The anonymous AI horror artist has built the largest following for AI-native visual art by embracing everything other artists try to hide.
20 Apr
Everyone called it AI slop. Nobody noticed they were watching episodes 1 through 19 of a serialized show maintained by a single anonymous creator shipping daily.
02 Apr
James Gerde didn't start by generating video from scratch. He took existing footage and completely reimagined what it could look like — and that distinction turns out to matter a lot.
30 Mar
Maria Pokrovskaya's AI films don't feel like AI art. They feel like grief, dislocation, and the specific texture of a memory you can't quite hold.
20 Dec
When The Visual Dome showed up in my Instagram feed, it felt like one of those accounts that was just suddenly there, as a fully formed idea.
17 Nov
Watching Zack London (better known as Gossip Goblin) break down his process in a handful of Instagram stories made me rethink everything.
Nothing matches that combination.
The working files behind the stories — the systems, and the parts that didn't work.
Jul 28, 2026
Two brand mascots that live on my Dock and became the notification layer for everything I send from my phone. What they do, and the bugs that taught me the most.
Jul 3, 2026
Almost nobody enjoys self-promotion, so I tried to automate mine — a whole funnel, built in one session. A few days later I found out it had been throwing every lead away. Here's the build, and why you can't fully trust the machine that does the part you hate.
Jun 17, 2026
A cron script publishes this site — no browser, no human. Building it surfaced timezone bugs, a members-only content leak, and a two-phase commit bolted onto a CMS.
Build Notes goes out most Mondays — the working files behind the stories, including the parts that didn't work.
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