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

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A collection of 11 posts.

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GOAT CIGS Doesn't Use Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or DALL·E

goatcigs makes sci-fi, horror and comedy shorts on Instagram, and keeps a hard line between the AI work and the art they make by hand.

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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.

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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.

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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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Visionaist Made a 90-Second Horror Short Mostly in One Generation

Visionaist's newest horror short runs ninety seconds, and about sixty of those came out of a single generation. The tool list is sitting in the description under every film.

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Gerardo Becker Made a Five-Minute Outbreak Thriller Without a Crew

Gerardo Becker's "Cabin Zero" is a five-minute outbreak thriller set on a commercial flight, and he did every job on it himself — script, direction, generation, sound, color, post.

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Delphi Motion Pictures Makes AI Films Where the Same Face Comes Back

Delphi Motion Pictures posts trailers for films that don't exist. The faces hold from shot to shot, and the worlds have factions with names.

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Surreailist Makes AI Films He Calls "Psychological Descents"

Lukas Nowacki posts short AI films under the handle surreailist. He calls them psychological descents, and they look like water-damaged folk horror somebody found in a Polish attic.

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Kavan the Kid Builds the Masks by Hand Before the AI Ever Sees Them

Kavan the Kid photographs himself in masks he owns before a single frame gets generated. Ten years of music videos on small budgets taught him where AI actually fits.

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YZA Voku Makes Award-Winning AI Short Films, and Commercial Work for The Weeknd and The Sphere

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.

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Gossip Goblin Released Pomegranate for Free the Same Day He Announced a Theatrical Run

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.