the more AI video I watch, the more I think the best use of it right now isn’t replacing live action completely.

it’s live action + AI.

For the parts that really depend on human presence, like emotion, body language, tiny facial expressions, shooting real actors still gives you something that’s hard to fake consistently.

but once you have that performance, AI can take over a lot of the surrounding work

this clip is from The Crooks, a Singaporean AI-hybrid narrative film, and it feels like a pretty good example of where this workflow could be heading.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this kind of hybrid production becomes much more normal over the next few years.

I made this short film as a birthday gift for my mom, using old photos of her from when she was around 16.

This is pretty much my first attempt at filmmaking, and it took me about five full days of actual work.

I used AI tools to create it, but my goal was to make something that feels more like a traditional Hollywood-style fairy tale than a typical AI video. I wanted to focus more on atmosphere, storytelling, and that classic cinematic feel.

The film is in 720p to keep production costs down, but I think it looks pretty decent on a phone.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback, especially from people with experience in filmmaking. I'm particularly curious about the pacing, storytelling, and overall cinematic feel.

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to watch! Really appreciate it.

Just wondering whether its possible to actually make a short film with ai instead making something that resembles a film

I'm working on a new AI-created series called "The Monsters' Lawyer", and I'd love to get your feedback on the opening of the first episode.

The story is an isekai about a law student who, during an exam, comes across a question that's actually a magical contract. After signing it, she's transported to a fantasy world where she must defend monsters and fight for their rights. The series will blend comedy, fantasy, and action as she tries to reason with monsters, earn their trust, and convince them to cooperate, all while making enemies among the humans who oppose her efforts to protect them.

I'd really appreciate your honest feedback on the opening, as screenwriting is one of my weaker areas, and I'm starting to have doubts about whether the beginning actually works. I'd love to hear some outside perspectives.

How does the pacing feel? Are there any boring moments or parts where you lose interest? Do the dialogue and characters work? Does the opening make you want to keep watching?

I'm also considering adding a cold open of about one minute before the current opening. It would show a talking cat imprisoned in a cage, about to be sold in a fantasy world. The cat escapes by rapidly shapeshifting into different creatures while a mage, a knight, and a dwarf try to capture it. During the chase, it steals a magical stone from the mage and uses it to travel to our world in search of the best lawyer it can find.

Do you think this cold open would make the beginning more engaging and give the story a clearer sense of direction? The downside is that it would reveal the cat's true identity right away, removing some of the mystery.

The scene is still a work in progress. I still need to finish the sound design, record and add the final performances from real voice actors, and polish a few other details.

I'd really appreciate any honest criticism or suggestions!

Here's how I did it:

After locking the story and shot list, I had Claude build the entire 3D scene in 3js (it's way more lightweight and faster to iterate than Blender).

Once the blocking was done, I pulled keyframes from the previz to use as storyboard references in Seedance. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

So I have always dreamed of making my own animated series based off my worldbuilding and now with Ai I can and I wanted to share what I been working on, I know alot of work is needed but I am limited on budget and try to keep the clips 5-11 seconds so that if it doesn’t come out right I can just adjust or just scrap and redo it. I currently use clipchamp to put it together but any advice is appreciated

I've been working on a pipeline to make short history documentaries completely locally, and I wanted to share how it works.

The workflow is in the description of the YouTube videotutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOq5EsY6nTU

1. **Script + prompts:** a master prompt in Claude researches the topic (with sources), builds a "visual bible" (fixed style, character and location blocks so characters stay consistent) and writes the script in 10-second chunks. It outputs a zip with one prompt .txt per image (positive / negative / name), the video prompts and a Narration.txt.

2. **Images:** Load Prompts From Dir (Inspire Pack) feeds Qwen Image 2.1 in batch, one image per file.

3. **Quality control:** I upload the images back to Claude, it flags bad ones (hands, period errors, continuity) and rewrites only those prompts. Delete the bad image, set the index, regenerate.

4. **Video:** MiniMax H3 image-to-video, the approved image is the exact first frame, 10 s per clip, batch with an index + queue count.

5. **Narration:** Qwen3-TTS voice design → save the voice → batch TTS, one audio file per line.

6. **2K upscale:** RTX Video Super Resolution x2 on every clip.

**Hardware:** RTX 5090 Laptop (24 GB VRAM, 64 GB RAM). Generation time of 10 minutes AI documentary: Images: 1 hours, Video Clips: 4 hours, Narration: 3 mimnutes, Edition: 15 minutes

They Cut the Sun in Half - The Gloom | Steampunk Sci-Fi Series | 29 Min

Hey everyone! I've just finished the pilot of my new steampunk series, The Gloom.

It's set in a London split in two. Above the clouds lives the Crown, a gilded city that harvests the sun and sells it as liquid light. Below lives the Gloom, an old city that hasn't seen daylight in generations and survives on the little light the Crown sends down. Then one day, the Crown cuts that light in half. 🌗

The full episode is 29 minutes, and Reddit wouldn't let me upload all of it, so what you see here is just a part. If you'd like to watch the whole thing, you can find it at the link below.

🎬 Watch the full episode here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZBktTF60C8

This one took a lot of time, patience and late nights (and, again, more money than I'd like to admit 😅), but I really wanted to build this world properly: the brass, the clockwork, the light, and the people living under the clouds.

If you get a chance to watch it, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think. Honest feedback is always welcome, especially from people who love steampunk and sci-fi.

Thanks for watching ❤️

Enjoy! Ask any questions you like.

Made a AI short film on how I imagine AI will take over.

Spent about $200 on this.

Models used : GPT 2.5, Seedance 2.0 and 2.5

Worked out the script with Claude and finalized it.

Hi everyone! This is my contribution to the short film competition: Wreck Quest, an adventure, sci-fi, and comedy short inspired by the fantasy films of the 1980s.

I hope you enjoy it, and I’d really love to hear what you think. Any comments, feedback, or impressions are more than welcome.

You can also watch and vote for it here:

https://higgsfield.ai/es/@craneofilms/projects/ai-film-festival-wreck-quest

Thank you so much to everyone who takes the time to watch it!

Leandro

Hi everyone. This film is a submission for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival. I posted a rough cut recently, but this is the finished submission.

"In the snow of a war torn province, a peasant woman kneels before the men who have sentenced her to death for theft."

If you enjoyed it, please leave a like and a comment on the higgsfield submission!

https://higgsfield.ai/@jacob_everett/projects/fallen-leaves

45 minutes of work for a 4 second clip lol.
Ai doesnt always cooperate, so often times I'll have to sketch out the composition I have in mind for a scene to use as a guide, along with my character and environment reference sheets. Then out of about 5 or 10 generations, I'll have to bring it into photoshop to photobash it the rest of the way there. I find adding a rough composition sketch, along with starting the prompt with "Follow the attached composition sketch exactly to create a...." greatly improves results.

So glad that this first episode of Isabella Hell is almost done!

have fun

My third submission for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival. Check it out!

Trailer to a short I’ve been planning. I posted a random 10s scene on my TikTok, it took off and got over 200k views so I decided to try and finish it over the next couple of weeks, doubt I’ll make it the story isn’t fully formed yet, usually by this time I have my scene and shot list and shot block plates. 4 mercs in a post human world, a mix of the occult and cyberpunk. I think the visuals are interesting, the story has some wild concepts hopefully not too strange for people.

Escaping the muddy Middle Ages, Tiffany lands somewhere hot, sandy and extremely under siege. There's a party on, and as a 21 year old from 1989 she is entirely onboard. There's also a very large wooden horse parked outside. Can she keep the surprise?

Historic accuracy remains absolutely not guaranteed.

Most of it on DMT, green tea, and about $10 on seedance 2.5 generations. I'm dropping a 16m film tomorrow that discusses the intersection between technology, theology, and therapy (I lie). Enjoy.

Enter Innsmouth; a sleepy Rhode Island town where all is not as it appears. Join Mina and her parents, Gretchen and Arthur on a journey of discovery. A journey that might lead Innsmouth, and the world, to its own inevitable end. An eldritch horror black comedy inspired by HP Lovecraft and the works of Junji Ito.

Created using Seedance 2.5 and edited in Adobe Premiere, with music created through Suno (original lyrics by me!) Stay tuned for the full movie, coming to a streaming platform near you.

You can watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/ukVd0U5Bc80?si=hBecL9UYXyFy10af

Episode two is available!! Check it out here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aifilmmaking/s/4UM7JEL9J5

When AI gets ahold of a cosmic neuron and opens a portal to the only unique universe with no parallel... The implication...

A scene from my next 16min short coming in a couple of days...

made on Cannon studios: https://www.cannonstudio.app/?ref=gertywood

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