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

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David Ribble Pushes the Main Subject to the Back of His Mind

David Ribble posts as art_from_the_aether — Dublin-based, fog to the horizon, tiny robed figures, enormous skulls.

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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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xstonedape Turns World Mythology Into AI Creature Reels

xstonedape posts gods arriving on enormous animals — Saraswati on a swan, Varuna on a makara, Poseidon on a hippocampus. The captions are titles only. No tools, no process, no explanation.

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How Minuit Builds One Fantasy Reel From Five AI Tools

minuit.art.ia lists the exact tool stack under every fantasy reel they post — Midjourney, GPT Image, Seedance, Suno, CapCut. Over 1,300 posts, the receipts are the process notes.

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Jonathan Michaud Dresses AI Horror as Recovered Footage

forbiddendimension posts AI horror as recovered camera footage — a GoPro in the tree roots, a bull on a crane, something in the river. Here's how the reels get built, in the creator's own words.

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ANIMUSE TV Animates Old Master Paintings, Museum Label and All

ANIMUSE TV animates Klimt, Bouguereau and Parmigianino into short films — and writes the artist, date, movement and collection into every caption, with the AI labelled.

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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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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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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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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.