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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.

The Archive In Between Won't Call the AI Part "Art"

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.

daejin.creates Makes AI Art That Goes Inward

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.

Brain Racked (Ryan McCoy) Builds Alien Civilizations using AI.

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 Made the Wrong Era Look Right

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.

dexplore.ai Posts a New World Almost Every Day.

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 That Looks Like Found Footage

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 Makes AI Art About Us. This Summer He Put It in a Room.

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.

Manuela Klauser Knew What She Was Making Before She Let the AI Near It

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.

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Julian van Dieken Accidentally Became the First AI Artist in a Museum

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.

Neural Viz Makes an Alien TV Network, Tool by Tool

Neural Viz makes coherent, episodic AI television — a whole alien TV network — as one person. Here's the actual workflow, tool by tool, and why a decade of craft is the part that still matters.

Gossip Goblin's "Zero Skill" AI Critique Actually Makes Sense

Gossip Goblin says AI image generation takes "zero skill." That sounds like the gatekeepers were right — until you actually watch him work.

How Voidstompers Built 3M Followers on Glitch Art

The anonymous AI horror artist has built the largest following for AI-native visual art by embracing everything other artists try to hide.

AI Cinema's Fruit Love Island: What Everyone Missed

Everyone called it AI slop. Nobody noticed they were watching episodes 1 through 19 of a serialized show maintained by a single anonymous creator shipping daily.

The Transformer: How James Gerde Turned Other People's Videos into Something Completely Different

James Gerde didn't start by generating video from scratch. He took existing footage and completely reimagined what it could look like — and that distinction turns out to matter a lot.

The Memory Collector: How n.evernow Makes AI Feel Like a Dream You Almost Remember

Maria Pokrovskaya's AI films don't feel like AI art. They feel like grief, dislocation, and the specific texture of a memory you can't quite hold.

The Work Inside The Visual Dome

When The Visual Dome showed up in my Instagram feed, it felt like one of those accounts that was just suddenly there, as a fully formed idea.

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The Hidden Work Behind Gossip Goblins' Worlds

Watching Zack London (better known as Gossip Goblin) break down his process in a handful of Instagram stories made me rethink everything.