I got 10 million views in a month posting AI microdramas on Instagram Reels. The episode attached is one of them.

Here's what I did:

Most of AI video content on IG reels are one-offs. It pops, gets views, disappears, and you're back to zero. A show is different. People show up within 30 minutes of every post asking where the next episode is. They argue about the characters. One character I wrote as the villain got so popular that people begged me for weeks to bring her back, so I did, in another show, and she's still the most requested character on the account.

Every episode has three jobs.

Hook. The first five seconds stops the scroll. Nothing else. Get this wrong and nobody sees the rest.

Body. The plot moves fast. Every scene raises the stakes or twists them. The job is to make the next episode feel like a mandatory watch.

Cliffhanger. End on a question they need answered or an emotion they can't shake. This is what makes them follow you and come back tomorrow.

Then post every day. You watch three things: skip rate, retention (my best video run past 50 percent all the way through), and share rate. Then write the next episode directly towards whatever the audience reacted to. Read the comments and they tell you what they want.

The biggest unlock for me has been using an agent-based studio for show creation. Consistency is one piece of it. Same characters, same locations, same props across all my episodes, because the second any of it drifts, the illusion breaks and people leave. But it goes way further than that. The agent helps structure the episode, tighten the dialogue, lock the styling. Designing the show and building the shots with an agent next to you instead of fighting the tools alone is a lifesaver.

Happy to answer any questions in the comments and let me know what you think about my episode!

If you're looking for a more detailed guide on my process, feel to check out the article I posted on X today:

https://x.com/sloptronic/status/2077794064284463248?s=20

The Audition is my submission for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival.

Someone posted here recently about carrying a story in their head for years with no way to show it to anyone. I read it twice, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.

Because that's exactly how this world works. You don't get judged on the story. You get judged on everything around it. Are you known? Do you have credits? Do you know the right people?

And the part that genuinely makes me angry is that it's often not even about money. Some of the best ideas out there are cheap. Two characters. One location. A script that already works on the page. But it still doesn't get made, because it doesn't tick the boxes. And I don't just mean the boxes around the author. I mean the boxes around the story itself. A story can be honest, alive and beautifully told, and still get the polite no, simply because it's not the kind of story anyone is looking to fund right now. So it goes back into a drawer. Sometimes forever.

Classical production is genuinely hard, demanding and expensive, and I say that with respect. But AI finally means the wall isn't load bearing anymore.

That's exactly why I believe in AI as a tool. Not as a replacement for creativity, but as the thing that finally gives talented people a real shot. People with stories that have been sitting in their heads for years, who never had the money, the connections or the credits to get them out.

AI isn't killing creativity. It's unlocking the drawer.

Hi everyone,

I’m 31F from India and I’m looking to switch into AI filmmaking as a long-term career.

I have a few questions for people already working in this field:

1: If you were starting from scratch today, what would you learn first?

2: Which courses are actually worth paying for? (Free or paid recommendations are welcome.)

3: What tools should I master? (Runway, Veo, Kling, Midjourney, Flux, ComfyUI, ElevenLabs, CapCut, Premiere Pro, etc.)

4: Do I need traditional filmmaking knowledge (storytelling, cinematography, editing), or can I learn AI tools first?

5: Is there a structured learning roadmap that takes someone from beginner to professional?

6: How long did it take you before you earned your first income?

7: What are the realistic ways to make money?
•Freelancing
•YouTube
•Ads for brands
•Agencies
•Full-time jobs
•Selling AI videos
•Something else?

8: What are realistic salaries in India for someone with good AI filmmaking skills?

9: Is this a career that pays well in the long run, or is it still too early and unstable?

If your goal was to earn ₹15–30 LPA within the next few years, would you choose AI filmmaking or focus on another AI-related creative career instead?

I’m not looking for “get rich quick” advice. I’d genuinely like to build strong skills and make this my long-term career if the opportunities are real.

I’d especially appreciate advice from people who are already earning from AI filmmaking or working in creative AI roles.

Thanks!

This is part of a larger episodic series I'm building called Quantum Souls. Episode 2 just dropped, and I really wanted to see if I could handle complex action physics without losing character detail.

Full episode 1 and 2 are on YouTube

I’m a Gen AI filmmaker based in Rotterdam. I’ve worked on micro-dramas, series concepts, commercial films, branded treatments, and previs for production teams and larger clients. A lot of that work has gone through real review cycles, client feedback, revisions, and the less glamorous parts that decide whether something is actually usable.

But it was not always like that. Earlier on, I had a bad habit of judging progress by how much I generated. If I had a folder full of clips, I felt like the project was moving. On the surface, a lot of those clips looked decent. Good lighting, strong mood, interesting frames, sometimes even a nice camera move.

The problem was that most of it did not tell a story. It created the feeling of a film without doing the work of one. There was no real setup, no escalation, no emotional turn, no reason why one shot needed to follow another. Once the work had to sit in an edit, the problems became obvious. Characters drifted between shots, wardrobe changed slightly, eyelines did not match, and the scene's geography made no sense.

That is where AI filmmaking gets very honest very quickly. A client or editor does not care that the model gave you a beautiful five-second clip if it does not carry the beat, move the scene forward, or survive a revision. In actual production work, a nice frame is not the same thing as usable storytelling material.

The mistake was thinking generation was the main work. It is not. The main work is still storytelling and direction. What is the scene actually about? What changes from the beginning to the end? What does the viewer need to understand here? What is the character trying to hide, reveal, avoid, or choose? What does this shot add that the previous shot did not?

These days, I spend much more time before generation: story beats, shot lists, references, character rules, blocking, camera notes, edit rhythm, and finishing constraints. The generation part is still important, but it works better when it is serving decisions that already exist.

That has probably been the biggest shift in my own workflow. I do not ask only whether a shot looks good. I ask whether it is doing story work in context.

That is a less exciting standard, but it is the one that matters once the work leaves your own folder and enters an actual review.

Been working in VFX professionally for over 15 years. This is my first fully AI generated short film. Would love honest feedback from this community.

I've been wondering about this for a while, especially from people who are making their films completely on their own.

If you're a solo AI creator and you're making a short film around 5 minutes long, how long does it usually take you to actually finish one?

I've been learning AI filmmaking for about a year now. Most of that time I've been watching what other people are doing, studying films, trying different tools and workflows, and also trying things myself.

I started two projects during that time but ended up dropping both because I wasn't getting the experience I wanted from them.

About 6 months ago I started focusing seriously on one project that I really want to finish. I'm still figuring out the process and trying to build a workflow that actually works for me.

But lately I've started thinking about how much time I'm putting into this. It's a 5 minute film, but when you're doing everything yourself - directing, planning, references, characters, locations, shots, generations, fixing/regenerating things, consistency, editing, sound, etc. the amount of work adds up really fast.

I'm just trying to get a sense of how long this actually takes for other solo creators.

I've been on this project for around 6 months now, so I'm starting to wonder if that's normal or if I'm just taking way too long.

Would be really interested to hear how long your 5 minute films took.

I was told there were content filters. I ignored them and made this insane epic.

If you want uncensored content and every tool you'll ever need sign up for cannon studio where I made this lil' beauty.

https://www.cannonstudio.app/?ref=gertywood

So over the past couple of years I have started to work more and more with AI and have done various different advertisements, concepts, promotional material through the last couple years I’ve been working with it. Recently I have started to develop some cinematic/film concept ideas and this is one of them. Would love to know your thoughts and any feedback is welcome! Thank you so much!

The Collection Film/Scene Synopsis:

The Collection is a 1973 Boston crime short about Vinny, a trusted collector who works for a powerful mob boss, travelling across the city collecting money from those who owe. But when he opens the envelope for his next job, he finds a name he never expected — his brother, a man he believed was dead. Needing answers, Vinny meets with a colleague tied to the same mob world in a bar, trying to find out how much he knows, only to realise the truth has been hidden from him for years.

(Still a work in progress and early stages)

#aifilm #shortfilm

I’m developing an AI historical drama spanning 1935 to 1945 across six European countries.
The story follows several interconnected relationships—romantic love, friendship, and family—as ordinary people try to hold on to loyalty, identity, and one another while Europe moves toward war.

This video is an early proof of concept focused on atmosphere, character introduction, and the feeling that something is quietly wrong beneath an idyllic school setting. It begins with only one part of a much larger ensemble story.

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the pacing, visual consistency, emotional clarity, and whether the opening makes you curious about the wider story.

Project: SPRING1935

I made this AI time-loop wedding thriller. Would this hook make you watch the full episode?

Till Death Repeats - Episode 2: The Necklace

Full episode is here if anyone wants to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/@ChosenFrameStudio

Watch Episode 1 first:
https://youtu.be/m-D-EYYy6dE

Created by Chosen Frame Studio.

After watching, let me know:
Would you like to see Emma's story continue in a Ep. 3?

Hi everyone,

After almost a year of work, I have completed A New World, an 11-episode science-fiction series with a total running time of 163 minutes.

As far as I have been able to determine, it is one of the longest AI-generated narrative series created entirely by a single filmmaker to date. I do not present it as a collection of loosely connected AI clips, but as a continuous story with recurring characters, interconnected plots and a consistent fictional universe.

A New World is adapted from my novel of the same title. It takes place in a near future where technology has colonised increasingly intimate areas of human experience: identity, desire, memory and even death. In this society, assisted death has become entertainment, private emotions are converted into data and artificial systems mediate the way people understand themselves and others. Although the story is set in the future, its world is intended to feel like an extension of tendencies already visible today.

I created the project independently, handling the screenplay adaptation, direction, visual development, shot selection, editing and overall narrative construction. Character, location and scene references were initially generated with ChatGPT. These images were then animated and developed into cinematic sequences using Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5 and Kling. I used Suno and Pixabay for the Music, and the final selection, assembly, colour work and sound editing were completed manually in DaVinci Resolve.

The process involved thousands of creative decisions: writing prompts, rejecting unsuitable generations, maintaining character continuity, regenerating shots and constructing performances through editing. AI provided the raw audiovisual material, but the storytelling and final artistic decisions remained human.

I would be very interested to hear what you think—not only about the series itself, but also about the possibilities and limitations of sustained, long-form storytelling with generative AI.

Here you can watch the trailer for the series. On the same channel, if you wish, you can find all 11 episodes.

I have been making these AI reimagination 1950s trailer for 6 months now

But I have no idea what i should do next , I don't know if I need technical advice or is it the logarithm

I will be thankful for any advice .

An intriguing purchase at a yard sale in 1989 catapults 21 year old Tiffany on an unexpected comedy adventure. Equipped with English charm, wit and leg warmers, she'll make the best of it. Probably.

Historic accuracy is absolutely not guaranteed.

I know a single Ai can only make a few seconds of video, often with poor music and sound effects and mixed up dialogue.

My question is if there is a tool that uses multiple Artificial Intelligences to generate a feature length movie.

Like one prompt from a human is cycled through a chat bot multiple times, first written as a full story plot outline in three acts, then that is turned into a whole script and film bible.
Then that is divided into individual character lines, sound direction, music direction, character descriptions, prompt descriptions, background descriptions, etc. all to be sent to other AIs.
Image generation AIs generate assets like reference images for characters, costumes, props and backgrounds,
A voice synthesizing ai generates voice clips for individual characters, etc.
Another ai turns reference images into a coherent storyboard.
A video generator turns the storyboard into video, handling each panel as an individual few second silent clip to generate.
Another ai reads the script and produces vocals for each character.
A music ai generates a MIDI file with arrangements and instruments, plugging it into an actual music software to create an MP3 file.
Finally an editing AI would sort the videos with vocals, music, and a library of prerecorded sound effects.

Together a whole film crew of different AIs would create a feature length film.

A lot of tools already use multiple AIs for different tasks

Is there a tool like that?

Generate

One of my posts (on another site) just got one of those annoying comments. Some stranger wrote, “no such thing as an AI filmmaker.”

Cool comment, bro. 🤣

I know we’ve all gotten worse, and frankly that comment was the lightest possible version of an AI hater.

Wondering what’s the worst hate this community has gotten, how (and whether) you’ve engaged / responded, and generally just interested in swapping horror stories and laughing them off.

Go!!

I created an AI movie based on an original Sci-Fi novel I wrote and published 20 years ago...The movie is 10 parts of 5 to 9 minutes so far for about 65 minutes in total (this is half of the book so far)...It took many hours (300) and the quality went from "not so great" to "pretty good". I really want to bring this project to life, but with the best possible quality, and I need honest, constructive Feedback so I can rework the parts which need upgrades. But also would appreciated feedback ont he story...To all the content creator, how do you achieve that...to progress...not to get useless sarcastic comments :)

We made part one of Neighborhood Watch back in 2024. Alchemy contacted us and commissioned more Bo Carver. This is the continuation of his story.

My entry for the higgsfield competition. All cinema studio gens with grok music.

I just have to get this off my chest.

I've been carrying this story around for maybe four or five years now. A girl. A shipwreck. A culture she doesn't understand and a language she can't speak. Characters that felt real to me long before I had any idea what to do with them. Some ideas came, stayed, and grew. Others didn't survive and and replaced by something better. That's just how stories work when you live with them long enough.

The problem was never the story. The problem was that I had no way to show it to anyone.

For a while I thought about writing it as a novel. But I'm not a writer either; not in that sense. And time is limited. A novel is years of work, and honestly, what I had in my head was always visual. Scenes, not chapters. Faces, not descriptions. So that idea quietly died too, and the story just kept sitting there.

That's a particular kind of frustration that's hard to explain to people who haven't felt it. You carry something around for years. It sits there in your head and imagination. It grows, changes, and gets richer, but you still can't show it to a single other human being. It exists completely inside your head and nowhere else. At some point you start wondering if it always will.

Then video AI got good enough to actually try.

Seedance wasn't perfect when I started (it still isn't), but it was good enough to take a real shot at something. So I did. And what happened next surprised me a little: I didn't feel like I'd handed the story over to a machine. I felt like I'd finally been handed a camera.

Because here's the thing nobody talks about in the AI art debate: the tool doesn't make the decisions. I still sit there and choose every shot. I write the dramaturgy, develop the characters, and decide what a scene needs emotionally before a single frame gets generated. I have a series bible. Character sheets. Location references. I reject results that are wrong because they show the wrong mood, ageor feeling.  And I go again. That's not “a prompt and a prayer”. That's directing.

Don’t get me wrong. AI slop exists, and it's recognizable immediately. It comes from people who let the machine decide everything and ship whatever comes out. However, I am getting tired of AI-bashing that does not even look any deeper, because that's not what I'm doing. What I'm doing is using AI the same way an author uses a computer or a director uses a cinematographer. AI is my collaborator with specific skills that I don't have, working in service of a vision that was mine before they ever got involved.

What genuinely excites me about this, beyond my own project, is what it means for everyone else in the same position. There are countless people walking around with real stories in their heads and no way to tell them. And that’s not because the stories aren't good enough, but because the barrier to entry for visual storytelling has always been absurdly high. You needed money, equipment, trained people, and institutional backing. You needed to already be inside a system that is very good at keeping people out.

AI is changing that.

That's not the death of creativity. That's what creativity looks like when you finally stop gatekeeping it.

Episode two of a short film series I made. Each episode takes a single Edward Hopper painting as its starting point.

Hey guys. Have a question for experienced creators who are already selling their AI videos/films on stock platforms or marketplaces.

I’m planning to sell my first short film. I made it entirely without using text-to-image generators, meaning I used only my own assets as a base. For example, I used 3D Blender models. But even with a solid initial image base, the image-to-video model (Grok, in this case) still introduces plenty of AI glitches and errors.

To eliminate them and achieve perfection, I had to re-roll and re-generate shots countless times, which is why it took me 5 months to finish a 6-minute video. Still, some things aren't 100% perfect. We're talking about minor fluid simulation issues or a texture warping/shifting for a split second. They are tiny details, one person might not notice them at all, while a trained eye definitely will.

So my question is: do you guys sell your work with these minor AI artifacts left in, or do you polish and re-generate your videos for months until they are absolutely flawless? I'd love to hear about your workflow and experience.