Behind-the-scenes breakdowns of how real AI creators make their work.

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A collection of 11 posts.

Creator Stories

David Ribble Pushes the Main Subject to the Back of His Mind

David Ribble posts as art_from_the_aether — Dublin-based, fog to the horizon, tiny robed figures, enormous skulls.

Creator Stories

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.

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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.

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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.

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Sara Shakeel Crystallizes It Digitally, Then 80 Artisans Sew It by Hand

Sara Shakeel started by putting crystals on a lipstick with a stylus and a phone app. Six years later she had 80 embroiderers in Pakistan sewing 3.9 million of them onto planets.

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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.

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Ozavry Has Posted Ninety-Two Chapters of One World, All in the Same Two Colors

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.

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Niceaunties Makes the Image First, Then Teaches It to Move

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.

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Micah Alhadeff Builds Bodies Out of Error, Then Teaches It at a University

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.

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GLOOMSTOMPER Is Voidstomper's Other Account, Where the Glitch Became a World

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.

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GEDDYRUXPIN Is Making AI Short Films That Feel Like They Were Buried in a VHS Vault Since 1963

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.