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

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Creator Stories

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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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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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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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.

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.

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.

Julien Durand Has a Day Job in Engineering. It's Why His AI Films Work.

Julien Durand is a mechanical engineer by training. He's also a CivitAI Award-winning AI artist with 323,000 Instagram followers — and the two things are more connected than they look.

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.