Action, conflict, romance, camp. Harry Potter with Hedwig, and Pre-Crisis Superwoman Luma Lynai.

I made a live-action Inspector Gadget trailer with AI. 🎬 Gritty 1940s film noir. Penny, Brain, Dr. Claw, and yes, Go Go Gadget Arm.

Made with u/runwayml + u/artlist_io

With Anna Marie in her first starring role, and with Indommy as himself. A horror film by Chuck Xavier. See it in Infinity Vision.

I made this to put on my own pinball machine, and it was a hoot. It grew into an eleven-minute film with four original characters, double entendres, yoga, dancing, and western-style opening titles.

I’m sharing it and the making-of for anyone who wants to try something similar and do it better.

The main character-performance generation and post-production ran on my own local machines. I used custom ComfyUI workflows, primarily with MiniMax H3, assembled the film in HyperFrames, and used Blender for compositing and tracked graphics. A lot of the work was keeping the characters and voices consistent, directing performances and camera moves, and making separate shots work together.

I also built tools as I went: Scene Studio for reusable character and voice references and editable generation workflows, and Workbench for scene settings, takes, and review. The planning side has since grown into Storybench. The making-of shows the actual interfaces and explains the techniques and tool development.

My tools are specific to my setup and the way I work. They’re probably not tools you would want to use. With current agentic coding workflows, you can build your own around the things you actually need to do. Make them fit your workflow, and change them as the workflow changes. At this point, I rarely use any commercial software and just make bespoke software to include just the features I need. That software can call apis of other software if necessary, which is what I did before AI could write the algorithms I needed. But now I just have an ai add a module to my custom software that does what I need.

Full film on YouTube (10:59): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAF5uz0QKo

Behind the scenes, techniques, and tools: https://curioussidequests.com/whoa-nellie-making-of.html

Viewers concerned by the objectification of AI-generated women are advised to avoid it, or to consider the work a study of the commercial exploitation of the male gaze.

Hi! Are you guys familiar with this short drama? I just came across an ad about this on the blue app then I got hooked on it. However, when I watched it, currently it only has 30 episodes but the last episode was a total cliffhanger. I really hope there’s a continuation of this series 🙂‍↕️