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Edward Dreamcast Builds Retro AI Fantasy Worlds in Reels

edward_dreamcast makes AI reels that look like an 80s creature workshop — jewelled monsters, a Star Witch, a dog called Buckley — and ends every caption by asking the reader what happens next.

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Thought Palace Writes the Music for Every Video They Post

Thought Palace posts seven-second animations in red, blue and green at full blast, and every caption ends the same way: the title, then the track ID for a song the same person wrote.

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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 US theaters on December 4. 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 trailer, theater list, ticketing and awards news land.

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NO SOUL SOCIETY Puts the Whole Lyric Sheet Under Every Video

Two anonymous people have put out three albums, an EP, a pile of singles and a Halloween short film in about a year — and every single song arrives with its full lyric sheet typed into the description.

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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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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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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 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.