Creator Stories

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gossip Goblin says AI image generation takes "zero skill." That sounds like the gatekeepers were right — until you actually watch him work.

The anonymous AI horror artist has built the largest following for AI-native visual art by embracing everything other artists try to hide.

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.

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.

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.

The loudest debate in creative circles isn't about AI stealing jobs—it's whether art is defined by the final outcome or the struggle to make it. We unpack a fiery community debate to expose why demanding "sacrifice" and "process" is often just a disguise for gatekeeping.

If AI feels more overwhelming than empowering lately, you’re not alone. This piece maps the real blockers creatives are running into and reframes how to work with these tools without burning out.

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.

Watching Zack London (better known as GossipGoblin) break down his process in a handful of Instagram stories made me rethink everything.