Creator Stories

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Frog Mage has built a dark fantasy world across Instagram, TikTok, and Spotify — memes, official music videos, and a Runway AI partnership.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.