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AI ANIMATION MASTERCLASS - Official Update
2 UPDATES: 1. Official Delivery Dates for Modules 5 to 8 2. Confirmation for the AI Animation Coach (my AI Clone + 2 talented directors) to guide you step by step on your filmmaking progress. I recorded a short video for you to explain the upcoming updates. When I launched AI Animation Masterclass I committed to 8 modules delivered weekly. I'm at 4 of 8. Two reasons: 1. I had an original plan for the Curriculum of this program that changed dramatically. 2. I had a computer braking up, and could not edit videos or edit images fast enough. It would take too much time to load anything. The original curriculum was this: - WEEK 1: Becoming an AI Director & Producer - WEEK 2: Shot-by-Shot Production Pipeline - WEEK 3: Character Design & Style Consistency System - WEEK 4: Character Actions & Limitations - WEEK 5: Background Design & Consistency - WEEK 6: Audio Consistency (Voice Acting, Music and SFX) - WEEK 7: Camera Magic (Motion, Timing and Limitations) - WEEK 8: Putting it All Together, Publish, Grow, and Repeat And after teaching classes live and seeing what students were actually struggling with, that changed too: - MODULE 1: Becoming a Good AI Director & Producer - MODULE 2: Shot-by-Shot Production Pipeline - MODULE 3: Consistency Shot-by-Shot - MODULE 4: Take Back Control When AI Won't Listen - MODULE 5: Unlock Maximum Control - MODULE 6: Advanced Image Editing - MODULE 7: Advanced Video Editing - MODULE 8: Advanced Audio Editing - BONUS: Advanced Cinematography That's resolved now. I have a new machine that can actually handle the workload, and I'm back at the desk. Here's the real timeline: - Module 5: May 25 - Module 6: Jun 1 - Module 7: Jun 8 - Module 8: Jun 15 And as a thank you for your patience: Every active AAM student gets lifetime access to all future course updates at no additional cost. Also, we are working on a project to develop a software that guides you step by step on all this AI Production Pipeline, with an AI Clone of me + 2 directors who have together 30 years of experience in filmmaking working with big clients like Amazon, Warner Music, and Universal.
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🎬 AI Film Festivals & Contests: Free Portfolio Builders with Real Prize Money
Ok guys, I'm sooooo excited about this. If you are in the AI Animation Masterclass, then you've been learning the pipeline, you've been building your skills, you've been testing tools... and now here's your chance to actually DO something with all of that. I'm putting together a list of AI film festivals and competitions I keep an eye on. Click the link here to see the Updated AI Film Festivals These aren't mine, just the ones I find interesting and worth your time. And honestly? This is one of the best things you can do right now as an AI director. - Even if you don't win, your work gets seen. - Festivals screen your films to judges, audiences, and industry people. - That visibility is GOLD when you're just building your portfolio. - You can enter solo OR team up with someone from our community. - Make a short film, an ad, an experiment. It all counts. And from my experience? Winning isn't even the point! → The deadline forces you to FINISH something. And a finished film, even an imperfect one, is worth a thousand ideas stuck in your head. So if you've been saying "I'll submit something someday," today is a great day to start. Pick a deadline and work backwards. That's how you become a director, not just someone who talks about making films. Drop a comment if you're thinking about entering one. I'd love to cheer you on! 🙌
🎬 AI Film Festivals & Contests: Free Portfolio Builders with Real Prize Money
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WOW! AI Sakuga Animation is here! WOHOOO!!!!
Ok - I am sooooo excited. Just saw the new update on Vidu Q3 Available on Galaxy! So if you use Galaxy, you can now do Sakuga This is the prompt I used: "Epic explosive sword fight, intense camera moves, explosive moves, anime, sakuga style, intense." If you use Galaxy, try using my image, or the one by @Rina Waithera , or one of your own, and go to: 1. AI Video Generator 2. Select Image to Video 3. Click on the model, and search for "Vidu", and select Vidu Q3 4. Use a prompt that asks for intense sakuga style animation This is the prompt I used: "Epic explosive sword fight, intense camera moves, explosive moves, anime, sakuga style, intense." NOTE: It is relatively "expensive", it costs around 1.28M Credits for 8 sec in Galaxy ($1.28 USD) And directly in Vidu.com it appears to be a tiny bit cheaper... at $1.13 USD for 8 sec animation.
How I turned a Romanian fairy tale into a 3D-style animated short: the full workflow
A few days ago I posted that team-built 3D animation runs $3,136 per finished minute. That figure still stands. So I tested the other end of the curve. One person. ~16 hours. ~$15 in marginal API credits on top of existing subscriptions. A 5-minute 3D-style animated short of a 145-year-old Romanian fairy tale — Ion Creangă's "Ursul păcălit de vulpe" / "The Bear Who Was Tricked by the Fox" — shipped in English, Romanian, and Hungarian subtitles. The honest comparison isn't "$15 beats $3,136." It's roughly ~$400 per finished minute solo vs. ~$10,000 (included margins, salaries, taxes, per finished minute team-built — about 25× cheaper. With trade-offs: visible artifacts in some shots, ~95% character consistency across 32 shots, ~70% Seedance acceptance rate, occasional Kling fallback for shots Seedance refused. Real, but real. I wrote up the entire pipeline, end to end: - Source material, OCR, and modern children's-English script adaptation - The production bible with @tag identity sheets that lock characters across all 32 shots - The Higgsfield "upload once, reference forever" UUID trick that saves hours per project - ElevenLabs v3 performance tags + bookend-pause discipline for clean TTS - The Seedance lip-sync recipe — the three rules nobody states clearly online (one video reference only, mandatory DIALOGUE block, @Image attribution per line) - Demucs htdemucs_6s for stripping unwanted background music from generated audio - The honest cost accounting: how subscriptions absorb the $15, where 16 hours of human time fits in, why the $10K/minute figure still holds for team-built work Plus real Seedance and ElevenLabs prompts (paste-ready), what I'd do differently next time, and the limitations I haven't solved yet. Full workflow inside and final fairy tale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kV6a7CpSV4 What folktale would you build with this pipeline? Full article on my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7457503694184497152/
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WaveSpeedAI Desktop - alternative to ComfyUI?
I just came across this Bob Doyle video on YouTube about WaveSpeedAI, a free desktop app which seems to have access to any model you want. No subscriptions - you just pay for what you use, via API usage. It also includes a lot of very useful free to use tools: video and image enhancers, background remover, audio and image converters etc. It looks like a good alternative to ComfyUI. I haven't had time to try it yet, but it definitely looks worth investigating. Link to download the app: https://wavespeed.ai/landing/desktop
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