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

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Animaj AI animation studio interface displaying colorful cartoon character sketches and animated sequences

Creator Stories

How Animaj Trained Its Animation AI on 300,000 Pocoyo Sketches.

Disney Jr's first YouTube preschool series appeared on July 15 with no press release. It was co-developed with Animaj — the studio that trained animation models on 300,000 Pocoyo sketches and publishes its pipeline like an engineering blog.

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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.

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.