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

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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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Gorgon Soup Is Building a Cosmic Horror Universe One Weekly Short at a Time

Gorgon Soup posts a new SECTOR 9 short almost every week, and unlike most AI filmmakers, they list the entire stack that made it right there in the footer of their own site.

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YACHT Fed Their Own Back Catalog to a Machine and Sang What Came Out

YACHT converted their entire back catalog into MIDI, fed it to a machine learning model, and spent three years assembling songs out of what came back. The album still sounds like YACHT.

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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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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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Dadabots Trained a Neural Net on Death Metal and Never Turned It Off

CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski fed raw death metal audio to a neural network, put the output on a livestream, and left it running. Most of their models failed. They published the failures too.

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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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Holly Herndon Trained an AI on Her Own Voice, Then Gave It Away

Holly Herndon spent six months getting boring results out of a neural network she built in her studio. Then she trained one on her own voice and gave it away to strangers.

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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.

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Agris Red Files a Daily Field Log From a World That Doesn't Exist

agris_red posts a daily dispatch from a numbered industrial wasteland — Sector 4, Sector 9, Sector 12 — and the account reads like a shift log kept by somebody who actually works there.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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How Do AI Creators Actually Make Their Videos?

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 Makes Dark Fantasy Memes, Original Music, and Very Little Explanation of How

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 Posted a Fictional Person Every Day for 15 Months

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.

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Tropland Universe Runs a Circus Where No Animal Is Real

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 an NBA Finals Ad for $2,000 and Published the Prompts

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 Writes the Words and Generates the Rest

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.

How Xania Monet's Music Actually Gets Made

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.