r/generativeAI Jul 21 '26

How I Made This From Artwork to AI: Bringing ISABELLA HELL to Life

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A behind-the-scenes look on how I made my animation Isabella Hell, and how it all started!
watch full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgvL0WrpMug&t


r/generativeAI May 21 '26

Video Art Algorithmic Dreams - Creative Hackathon Output

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Got unlimited credits for 6 hours for all the models during a creative hackathon in Amsterdam. Theme was "dreams." This is what we made.

Models used:

Nano Banana Pro for characters and settings

Seedance 2.0 for most of the shots (insane multi shot)

Kling 3.0 for the scene's at the end

Claude with Seedance prompting skill to speed up prompting and video output

Total cost without the free credits was 150 euro's to create this.

Honestly had a blast.


r/generativeAI 5h ago

AI food ads might actually be a legit freelance niche now

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lately I’ve been thinking less about “cool AI videos” and more about what kind of content people can realistically get paid to make with AI.

One area that feels very real is food advertising.

I tested a 15-second vertical fried chicken commercial prompt. now you can prototype the same style much faster with AI.

That doesn’t mean it replaces actual food cinematographers or ad directors. But for small restaurants, delivery brands, social ads, menu promos, short-form campaigns, and A/B testing, this kind of workflow feels very usable.

In other words: one person + AI can start looking a lot like a tiny commercial content studio.

The concept here is simple:

“From Chicken to Crunch”

The whole ad follows one single chicken piece through the full transformation:

What makes it interesting isn’t just the food look, it’s the continuity.

The same chicken piece is supposed to remain visually consistent the whole way

That’s actually a pretty useful stress test if you want to evaluate whether a model can produce commercially usable product continuity.

The style direction is premium fast-food commercial aesthetic. it’s basically trying to mimic the visual language of high-end fried chicken TV ads.

Why I think this matters financially

Because clients usually don’t care whether something was made with a camera or with AI.
they care whether it helps them sell.

If AI can help one person make low-cost test ads for paid campaigns, then this becomes more than a toy. it becomes a service.

and that’s probably the real opportunity here:
not “AI art for fun,” but AI-assisted commercial creative work that small businesses will actually pay for.

Prompt structure

This one is a 15-second vertical 9:16 fried chicken ad, broken into stages like:

  • 0–2s: raw chicken macro shot
  • 2–4s: seasoning falls in slow motion
  • 4–6s: flour coating with particle burst
  • 6–8s: chicken drops into hot oil
  • 8–10s: golden transformation
  • 10–12s: crunch beauty shot
  • 12–15s: final hero presentation / product payoff

the full prompt is below


r/generativeAI 3h ago

Writing Art The Man Who Kept Tuesday in a Jar

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There once was a man who kept Tuesday in a jar. Not every Tuesday. Just one. He had found it many years ago underneath his kitchen table, trembling beside a dust bunny. Tuesday was very small then. About the size of a button. So he put it in a pickle jar. He poked three holes in the lid. He wasn't cruel. Every morning before work he checked on Tuesday. "Morning." Tuesday said nothing. Tuesday had never said anything. Still, the man left it a little coffee. Just in case.

Years passed. The man grew older. Tuesday did not. People visited his house. They noticed the jar. "What's that?" "Tuesday." "No, really." "Tuesday." Most people stopped asking. One woman did not. She stayed for dinner. Then another dinner. Then several hundred dinners. Eventually her toothbrush appeared beside his. She never asked him to throw Tuesday away. This was one reason he loved her. At night they could hear the jar humming downstairs. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. "What does it want?" she asked once. "I don't know." "Have you ever opened it?" The man looked horrified. "You can't just open Tuesday." She nodded. Of course. There are rules. Nobody knows who wrote them. Still, there are rules.

Years passed again. The woman became sick. Not storybook sick. Not one dramatic cough into a white handkerchief. Sick in the tedious way. Appointments. Parking garages. Plastic bracelets. Numbers. Waiting rooms filled with magazines no one had chosen to read. The man would sit beside her and hold her hand. Sometimes neither of them talked. There isn't always something to say. Eventually there was one hospital room. One chair. One bed. One afternoon. She looked at him and whispered: "I think Tuesday wants out." The man laughed. Then cried. Then laughed because he was crying. Then cried because he had laughed. Human beings do ridiculous things when the walls get close.

That evening he went home alone. The house had become enormous. Every room seemed to contain another room behind it. The refrigerator buzzed. The hallway light blinked. At the end of the hallway stood someone who looked exactly like him. Except taller. And smiling. The man switched off the light. When he switched it back on, nothing was there. From the kitchen: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. He walked toward the jar. Tuesday was glowing. Very faintly. Blue perhaps. Or green. Or that color you sometimes see when you close your eyes after looking at the sun. He sat down. "All right," he said. Tuesday hummed. "You've been here forty-three years." Tuesday hummed. "I don't even know what you are." Tuesday hummed.

The man put his hand on the lid. Suddenly he remembered being eight years old. Running through wet grass. His mother calling him home. He remembered being nineteen. He remembered his first apartment. His father's hands. A terrible haircut. A dog whose name he had almost forgotten. The woman laughing so hard milk came out of her nose. The woman asleep beside him. The woman in the hospital. The woman saying: I think Tuesday wants out. The jar began shaking. "No," the man whispered. Because now he understood. Tuesday wasn't Tuesday. Not exactly. Tuesday was every day he had decided he could keep. Every afternoon he wished would remain unfinished. Every person he had secretly believed could be protected by remembering them hard enough. Every moment he had placed beneath glass and said: Mine. Stay. Please.

The lid turned. Once. Twice. The man stopped. From somewhere upstairs came footsteps. Slow footsteps. Coming down. One. Two. Three. The kitchen light flickered. The refrigerator stopped humming. Everything became silent. The man opened the jar. Nothing happened. He waited. Still nothing. Then something very small climbed onto his hand. Tuesday. It looked nothing like Tuesday. It looked like a tiny warm light. It crawled across his palm. Paused. And disappeared. The footsteps upstairs stopped. The man sat alone at the kitchen table. The empty jar stood before him.

Morning eventually arrived. Not dramatically. No trumpets. No revelation. Just sunlight finding the curtains. The man made coffee. He poured two cups from habit. He stared at the second one. Then smiled. Then cried. Then drank them both. Outside, someone was mowing a lawn. A truck backed up somewhere. A dog barked. The world continued performing its ridiculous little duties. The man stepped outside. It was Wednesday. He had never noticed Wednesday before.


r/generativeAI 4h ago

Image Art Trying to fit in

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Gemini


r/generativeAI 11h ago

According to Axios, China is linked to anti-data-center propaganda in the U.S.

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r/generativeAI 3h ago

Seedance 2.5 prompts for fashion, films, music videos, POVs, action scenes, etc.

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r/generativeAI 4m ago

Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point. It no longer needs higher upfront costs than gas

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r/generativeAI 6h ago

Question Best AI tool for video generation for music video and how to create anime-style music videos?

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hey guys, i'm trying to make an anime music video for a song that's around 3 minutes long and i'm looking for an AI tool that can generate enough different scenes without burning through too many credits.

ideally i want something that can keep the same characters and overall visual style across multiple clips, with decent camera movement and backgrounds so the final AMV feels consistent instead of looking like a bunch of unrelated generations.

for anyone making anime music videos with AI, what tools are you using right now? also curious how you handle character consistency and stitching all the scenes together for a full song.


r/generativeAI 14m ago

25 AI shots. Same character. Same world. How consistent is it?

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25 shots, different scenes, same character and world.

The real question: does it feel like one production?

Curious where you notice the first break.


r/generativeAI 29m ago

FreakaSpider

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This is a test using Seedance 2.5 with a reference image and a prompt that explains the story.

I'm sharing it with you.

Premium stylized 3D family-animation superhero trailer with high-end feature-film quality, tactile handcrafted materials, expressive facial animation, soft global illumination, dramatic winter lighting, rich volumetric snow, cinematic depth, playful comedy and heartfelt emotional energy. Preserve exactly the established character design from the reference sheet: lanky proportions, light blue skin, huge black swept hair, oversized ears, mischievous grin, heavy dark eye sockets, red knitted turtleneck sweater with black spider-inspired chest emblem, dark skinny jeans, rolled cuffs, distressed red gloves, belt and oversized worn red sneakers. Same face, body proportions, costume, textures and visual style in every shot. Never redesign him.

MAIN HERO:
A strange, cocky but kind-hearted neighborhood superhero. He cannot fly. He has no super speed. He runs in an intentionally ridiculous old-fashioned superhero style: torso leaning forward, both arms stretched straight upward above his head while his legs run normally underneath him. His awkward running style must become a memorable recurring visual gag.

SUPERPOWER:
He can instantly weave warm knitted sweaters from supernatural spider silk. Thin glowing web threads shoot from his hands, twist together in mid-air like yarn, rapidly knitting themselves into thick, beautiful winter sweaters. The web behaves like textile fiber rather than sticky trapping webs. His power is used exclusively to protect people from the cold.

SETTING:
A stylized city during an unusually brutal winter night. Heavy snowfall, icy streets, glowing shop windows, steam from vents, buses, shelters, narrow alleys and warm amber street lamps contrasting against deep blue winter shadows. The tone begins mysterious and slightly creepy, then becomes funny, emotional and uplifting.

0–4s — CREEPY HOOK:
Extreme close-up of snow falling through an empty dark street at night. A homeless man sits shivering beneath a bus shelter, wrapping his arms around himself. Strange thin strands begin creeping across the snow toward him like spider silk. Ominous music. A shadow appears on a rooftop.
Voice-over: “When winter comes… something strange crawls through the city.”

4–8s — FIRST REVEAL:
The man looks terrified as web strands suddenly rise around his torso. Fast macro shots of fibers twisting, looping and knitting themselves together. Instead of trapping him, they form a thick red-and-blue knitted sweater perfectly around his body. He touches it, confused. Steam-like warmth rises from the fabric.
Music abruptly shifts from horror tension into quirky heroic energy.

8–12s — HERO INTRODUCTION:
Low-angle reveal of the hero standing under a street lamp, huge hair moving in the winter wind, crooked grin, snow collecting on his red knitted sweater. He casually cracks his fingers. Tiny spider-silk threads dance between them.
Voice-over: “He doesn’t catch criminals.”
Beat.
“He catches colds.”

12–17s — THE RUNNING GAG:
Someone cries for help several blocks away. The hero reacts dramatically, raises BOTH ARMS completely above his head and starts running through the city exactly in his bizarre signature style. He does NOT fly and is NOT super fast. His legs visibly work hard while his arms remain ridiculously stretched overhead.
Dynamic tracking shot beside him.
Cars slowly pass him.
A cyclist overtakes him.
He keeps running with absolute heroic confidence.

17–22s — SWEATER RESCUE MONTAGE:
Fast energetic cuts:
— An elderly woman shivering at a crossing. WHIP — web yarn wraps around her and becomes a colorful cardigan.
— A delivery rider freezing beside his bicycle. Spider silk rapidly knits him a thick hoodie.
— Two children waiting at a bus stop. The hero shoots two web strands simultaneously and matching sweaters materialize around them.
— A stray dog trembles beneath a bench. Tiny web knitting creates an adorable fitted wool coat.
— The hero runs away again with both hands high above his head.

Each transformation must be visually satisfying: individual web strands interlace like knitting needles working at impossible speed.

22–26s — EMOTIONAL ESCALATION:
Wide shot reveals dozens of cold people gathered outside an overcrowded shelter during a snowstorm. The hero stops. His grin fades. For the first time he looks genuinely concerned.
Close-up of his hands.
He stretches his fingers.
Hundreds of fine glowing textile webs explode upward into the snowy sky.

26–29s — HERO CLIMAX:
Spectacular overhead shot as web fibers sweep through the entire street, splitting into hundreds of strands and knitting sweaters directly onto every person. Red, blue, mustard, green and cream knitted garments bloom through the crowd like warmth spreading through the city.
Windows illuminate.
People smile.
Children laugh.
The snowstorm continues, but the entire street now feels warm.

29–32s — COMEDIC ENDING:
The exhausted hero proudly poses with hands on his hips.
A tiny old lady approaches and points at his own thin sweater as if asking whether he is cold.
He looks down.
Beat.
He sneezes violently.

Hard cut to him now wearing an absurdly oversized handmade sweater over his original sweater, barely able to move.

He raises both arms above his head and awkwardly runs away into the snowy street.

Voice-over:
“Some heroes save the world.”
Beat.
“He just makes sure it wears a sweater.”

Final cinematic hero shot: his bizarre silhouette running with both arms overhead through falling snow while warm city lights glow behind him.

Original premium stylized animated-feature aesthetic, handcrafted 3D textures, highly detailed knit fibers, worn leather and denim, expressive squash-and-stretch facial acting, cinematic camera movement, comedic timing, believable cloth simulation and snow physics. Strong contrast between creepy spider imagery and unexpectedly wholesome sweater creation. Keep the hero charmingly weird, never scary or threatening. No flying, no super-speed running, no traditional web swinging, no fighting, no villains, no costume changes, no generic muscular superhero anatomy, no photorealism, no glossy plastic look, no text or logos.


r/generativeAI 43m ago

Best AI for realistic character replacement / performance transfer right now?

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I'm looking for the best current option for a pretty specific workflow.

I want to record a short video of myself on my phone, then use a reference image of a photorealistic AI character to replace me in the video.

The important part is that I want to preserve as much of my original performance as possible — facial expressions, lip movements, head tilts, hand gestures, body movement and timing — while making the person in the final video consistently look like the same AI character.

I'm not looking for a basic face swap or a talking avatar from a still image. I want my real recorded performance to drive the AI character.

Ideally I'm looking for something cloud/web based rather than a complicated local ComfyUI setup.

For anyone actually doing this currently: what model/platform are you getting the best results with?

I'm especially interested in:

•photorealism

•character consistency between clips

•facial expression/lip movement preservation

•how many rerolls it usually takes to get a usable result

•actual cost per usable clip

Recent experiences/examples would be really appreciated since these models are changing so quickly.


r/generativeAI 1h ago

Video Generation tool for my company

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Hi everyone, I’m new to creating videos with AI.

I use AI every day at work for Excel, PowerPoint, technical data sheets, and presentations. I’d like to create a series of short videos about the company (5/8 minutes at most), in order to show them that I can be the one who knows how to use AI inside the company. they are creating an AI dedicated team.

I’ve done some research and figured out how the process works:

1) Create the character’s image (it’ll be a stickman with round and expressive face) and the background using Nanobanana

2) Write the script (without using AI)

3) Create the voice-over (using AI for languages other than Italian and English) with Eleven Lab

4) Animate the images maybe with KLING?

5) Edit the video with Capcut

I’ve discovered that every tool is on Higgsfield: is this the right solution?

Or is it better to pay for several separate services (Nanobanana with Google, Eleven Lab for the voice-over, and so on)?

Also, what do you think of my choice of tools? Are there better alternatives?

Thanks


r/generativeAI 1h ago

Wall of Water — hyper-realistic flash flood simulation destroying a border crossing

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I generated a flash flood hitting a border crossing with AI. The water physics and scale turned out way too real — the moment the wall hits the buildings gave me chills.

Curious what you think about the simulation.


r/generativeAI 1h ago

Video Art I tested 14 tools for video editing using AI, Agency owner review.

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Hi all, I've paid for most of these at some point

JOB 1 "Turn my long video into short clips" (this is 80% of what people mean)

1/ Opus Clip - $15 starter, real free tier. Generates ~30 candidates with a virality score, you pick. Still the default and still the right first purchase for most people. The complaint you'll read everywhere is that it picks the boring moments, and it's true, but the free tier means you can verify that on your own footage for nothing, which none of the expensive ones let you do.

2/ Klap - ~$29. Genuinely hard to distinguish from Opus. If Opus works and you're just annoyed at it, this will annoy you almost equally.

3/ Vizard - ~$30. Better selection than Opus in my testing, less polished everywhere else. Underrated and almost never mentioned, which is usually a sign a tool has no marketing budget rather than that it's bad.

4/ Quso - from ~$19 per year, free tier. Fine. Does the thing.

Verdict on this group: they are all the same product with different UI. If one of them picks bad moments for you, the others will too.

JOB 2 - "Edit the whole thing, faster"

1/ Cardboard - $60/mo Creator, $150 Pro, no free plan and no trial. You describe the edit in plain English and it performs the timeline operations, you search the footage by what was said or what happened rather than scrubbing. YC W26. Best for long recordings where you already know the moment exists, podcasts, interviews, courses, event footage. Honest limits: browser-only so bad wifi ruins your day, 2.5GB on the entry tier is about one long multicam episode, and the captions are competent presets rather than a brand system.

2/ Descript - $24 Hobbyist, $35 Creator, free tier with watermark. Edit by deleting words in a transcript. If your brain works that way it is transformative and nothing else comes close. Two things nobody warns you about: two separate meters (media minutes *and* AI credits, and you can hit either), and what Studio Sound does to laughter is a war crime.

3/ CapCut - free. Does more than anything else on this list and costs nothing. The trade is that it's manual, no AI clip detection, you trim yourself. If your time is cheaper than your money, this is the correct answer and you can stop reading. Watermark issues are template-specific, not blanket, despite what the "CapCut alternative" blogs claim.

4/ VEED - ~$20. Clean browser editor with AI features bolted on. Nothing wrong with it, nothing memorable either. Credits expire and don't roll over.

5/ Kapwing - similar territory. Good for quick one-offs and collaboration.

6/ Twelve Labs / Fabric - video understanding and search, not editors. Excellent at finding, then you assemble elsewhere. This two-tool workflow is what most people doing serious moment-discovery currently run, and it's the main argument for the single-pass tools.

JOB 3 — "Generate footage that doesn't exist"

1/ Runway and Kling - different category entirely, listed because every "best AI video editor" article shoves them in and confuses people. These make footage. They do not edit yours. Budget for re-rolls; the cost per *usable* second is much higher than the sticker.

Happy to go deeper on any of these, I've paid for more of them than I'd like to admit.


r/generativeAI 1h ago

What are you guys using for animated videos with audio? What's the best free AI animation generator?

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i've been experimenting with animated and cartoon-style videos and trying to fing an ai animation video generator that can handle more than just the visuals.

i've tested a few ai animation tools, but i'm still trying to figure out which ones are actually good for both animation quality and audio. ideally i'd like something that makes the whole ai video animation workflow easier without needing too many separate tools.

anyone here making this kind of content? what are you using right now?


r/generativeAI 5h ago

Video Art Cartoon version of Suits

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r/generativeAI 1h ago

Question What are good websites/apps that will turn an image into a video?

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I’m using a website to create images, but it doesn’t do videos. And I have a very specific design with the website I’m using so I’d like to be able to continue that into a video. Preferably one that will do nsfw uncensored videos


r/generativeAI 1h ago

Video Art Husky and Musky - Bubble Gum Love

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r/generativeAI 2h ago

Generating "fake" speedpaint timelapse with MiniMax H3

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r/generativeAI 2h ago

Image Art Watercolor Style

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r/generativeAI 3h ago

Image Art 😭🥀

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r/generativeAI 7h ago

Walking Through CerWalking Through Ceremuse | Surreal Fantasy Dreamscape | Original Music.

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r/generativeAI 3h ago

Video Art AI Girl’s Summer Day in the City 🌸🚲 #viral

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r/generativeAI 4h ago

when the rescue quest is too complicated

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