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How AI creators actually make their work — the process, the tools, and the decisions behind the pieces.

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 US theaters on December 4. 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 trailer, theater list, ticketing and awards news land.

Aug 21, 2026 12 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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