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xstonedape Turns World Mythology Into AI Creature Reels

xstonedape Turns World Mythology Into AI Creature Reels

xstonedape posts gods arriving on enormous animals — Saraswati on a swan, Varuna on a makara, Poseidon on a hippocampus. The captions are titles only. No tools, no process, no explanation.

Aug 27, 2026 3 min read
How Minuit Builds One Fantasy Reel From Five AI Tools

How Minuit Builds One Fantasy Reel From Five AI Tools

minuit.art.ia lists the exact tool stack under every fantasy reel they post — Midjourney, GPT Image, Seedance, Suno, CapCut. Over 1,300 posts, the receipts are the process notes.

Aug 26, 2026 3 min read
Jonathan Michaud Dresses AI Horror as Recovered Footage

Jonathan Michaud Dresses AI Horror as Recovered Footage

forbiddendimension posts AI horror as recovered camera footage — a GoPro in the tree roots, a bull on a crane, something in the river. Here's how the reels get built, in the creator's own words.

Aug 26, 2026 4 min read
Edward Dreamcast Builds Retro AI Fantasy Worlds in Reels

Edward Dreamcast Builds Retro AI Fantasy Worlds in Reels

edward_dreamcast makes AI reels that look like an 80s creature workshop — jewelled monsters, a Star Witch, a dog called Buckley — and ends every caption by asking the reader what happens next.

Aug 24, 2026 3 min read
TORVÆL Puts Every Film in the Same Timeline

TORVÆL Puts Every Film in the Same Timeline

TORVÆL has posted a run of psychological horror shorts since June. They're all boxy 4:3, they're all credited to nobody but TORVÆL, and the descriptions keep insisting they belong to one connected story.

Aug 21, 2026 5 min read
Gods Don't Give Gifts: What We Know About Gossip Goblin's First Feature

Gods Don't Give Gifts: What We Know About Gossip Goblin's First Feature

Gossip Goblin's first feature opens in several hundred US theaters on October 30. This page tracks what has been confirmed about Gods Don't Give Gifts, what hasn't, and how it was put together — updated as the distributor, trailer, theater list and ticketing get announced.

Aug 21, 2026 8 min read
NO SOUL SOCIETY Puts the Whole Lyric Sheet Under Every Video

NO SOUL SOCIETY Puts the Whole Lyric Sheet Under Every Video

Two anonymous people have put out three albums, an EP, a pile of singles and a Halloween short film in about a year — and every single song arrives with its full lyric sheet typed into the description.

Aug 21, 2026 6 min read
How mertz Uses AI, and Why the Workflow Stays Hidden

How mertz Uses AI, and Why the Workflow Stays Hidden

mertz is credited on 3D VFX for SEVENTEEN V8’s debut single, directed by BRTHR. The personal work runs the other way: night, monochrome, one figure, captioned with nothing but a title, a name and a year.

Aug 19, 2026 3 min read
Charlie Moon Prompts a Beetle, Then Prints It

Charlie Moon Prompts a Beetle, Then Prints It

Charlie Moon generates insects with AI, then keeps working until they're 3D-printed objects hanging on a wall. Here's how much of it she hands to the machine, in her own words.

Aug 17, 2026 4 min read
Jonas Peterson Directs the AI the Way a Director Talks to an Actor

Jonas Peterson Directs the AI the Way a Director Talks to an Actor

Jonas Peterson spent twenty-five years photographing real people before he started making portraits of people who don't exist. He describes the AI work as directing, says the software is wrong most of the time, and refuses to tell anyone which software it is.

Aug 7, 2026 5 min read
Grace Green Puts the Same Girl in a New Impossible Situation Every Week

Grace Green Puts the Same Girl in a New Impossible Situation Every Week

grace_green_space has been putting the same black-bobbed girl into a new impossible situation for years — tightropes, vending machines, a shadow on a leash. She added AI to a nine-year digital painting practice in 2025 and hasn't explained a thing about how.

Aug 4, 2026 4 min read

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