Hello my AI production friends - how are ya? I haven't caught up in the class yet, lagging way behind, but wanted to share my latest. I have not yet been able to do a full AI-generated production that I'm comfortable posting on my channel, but I am finding ways to use AI more and more in my productions. This video is a compilation - the first video (Shark Hunt song) is the most recent. I always put the newest video first, then include approximately 20 minutes of additional videos to help increase average view duration and the number of ad breaks that run. The main characters (Zack and Maya) are my IP, established characters on my channel. I animate them using Cartoon Animator 5. The shark and the octopus are characters from Reallusion marketplace that I animated in CA5 as well. Most of the backgrounds were generated using AI, and one thing I did differently this time was to use AI to ANIMATE the backgrounds instead of using still images. It worked well in this particular production, bringing the sea weed and corals to life. I started with still images (2D animation style), set those as the first frame, and prompted Seedance or Kling to animate the backgrounds. On several of them, I had Claude refine my prompts, which was very helpful. I also created the giant snapping clams, the eels, and the camera movement through "Octopus Alley" (at around 2:20) using AI. These steps saved me a LOT of time during the animation process. I post a new video every two weeks, so any step that can save time is helpful. That's why I signed up for this class! I will definitely continue animating the backgrounds using AI. It's subtle, but adds to the overall effect, in my opinion. The camera motion through the coral reef was done in Seedance 2. I used a range of tools and services to get all these different results, some from my galaxy subscription, some from my Freepik subscription, which uses a lot of the same tools, honestly. I probably don't need them both, but I like the flexibility to be able to switch back and forth, and I also like being able to start with a stock image in Freepik and edit it with AI tools. I did that with several of the backgrounds, and used many as style references.

I hope that this information will provide you with enough info regarding my video project that you can understand the process in which i was using & attempting to achieve even though weather got in the way & wreaked the 1st floor of church to the tune of at least 2/3 to over 1 million dollars in damage. That is where all of my equipment is located & it will take several months to return some kind of normalized life as we once knew. Anyway, I plan on attending that last few Zoom sessions to the end.....My video was a first generation cell phone copy & that is all I have of the project when the storms hit with 5 1/2 to 7 inches of rain in 1 1/2 hours last Friday evening. Thanks again Mark for all of your hard work!

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