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Important Poll for AI Animation Masterclass
Big question for you. I need your honest vote. I’m at a crossroads with what to build next, and I want YOU to be the one who decides. Here are your two options: - Option A: Videos first, software second: I keep building out the weekly video lessons on schedule. You can see exactly what’s coming by clicking the curriculum link below. New modules drop consistently, you follow the step-by-step process, and we build the pipeline together lesson by lesson. - Option B: Software first, videos second: Instead of learning how to do each technique, you get a tool that does the technique for you, powered by AI. Here is what the software would include: - Brainstorm story ideas fast - Develop character psychology to build interesting characters quickly - Write and fix scripts line by line with AI assistance - Design characters with an integrated image generator - Build full storyboards shot by shot - Fix any shot to adjust camera angle or character position - Manually fix any panel with a built-in Photoshop-like editor - Put clips together with an online video editor - Advanced cinematography controls when generating your images, including: ∙ Close up ∙ Medium close up ∙ Full shot ∙ Over the shoulder ∙ Low angle / high angle ∙ Frontal, side, and 3-quarter view And this one is my favorite. - An AI coach assistant, available 24/7, powered by Claude. This is not a generic chatbot. It will have access to everything the video lessons are supposed to teach you. So instead of waiting for the next module, you ask a question, and you get the exact answer you need, right now, for your specific situation. Now here is something important regardless of which option wins. Whenever we start building the software, everyone in this community gets unlimited FREE credits for image generation and the AI chat assistant while we are in development. That is a gift from me to you for being here early. Video generation is more expensive to run, so that part will require a small pay-as-you-go investment when the time comes.
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3 likes • May 17
@Mark Diaz, I think you're working on a really great ai tool! I heartily support your efforts to create such a powerful tool. However, I feel that ai automation can help you create short videos. For creating feature-length movies, we'll still need to do some manual work using advanced editing techniques. Also, creating the software may take you some time, whereas those of us who need to get the movie done quickly may have to wait a longer time before the software is ready. I also understand that this is the prime time to create such a software, and that creating training videos is a very time consuming process and takes a lot of prep work. How about we find a middle ground that works for all of us? Perhaps you could list the tasks that you intend to teach us via the training videos in a document format. For example, '1) To create an image of this particular style, you need to use the Pen tool in Illustrator, then use the polygon lasso tool to select it for this particular purpose'.....and so on. It doesn't have to cover each teeny tiny detail. Just mention when to use which technique to get the work done. You must have created a rough outline of the techniques you'd like to teach us. Just put that in a Word document. That way, you don't need to spend a huge amount of time to create the videos, and we also can get our projects to move forward quickly. Just list the steps that are needed to create a particular effect or outcome, and we'll go ahead and look them up on youtube or other websites. What do you say?
2 likes • May 22
@Mark Diaz it seems to me that the quiz you created about our editing skills has questions related to all the important editing skills that we need. Is that right? In that case, you don't need to create documents or videos on editing skills right away. These can wait. It may be a better use of your time to work on the new AI tool at this point.
Exciting NEWS for AI ANIMATION MASTERCLASS - Image Generator Coming Soon!
Right now I'm working on the early prototype of the image generator. Right now it's still very buggy but at least it started creating images using NanoBanana Pro and NanoBana 2. I'm trying to add a couple of features that I have not seen in the other engines. The one that I'm most interested in is in being able to edit the images with Photopea right there in the interface (which is basically Photoshop but online, and without the AI), and also be able to select areas and ask for adjustments using any AI model like Nano Banana Pro, SeedDream, or any image generator of your preference. And for those of you in the AI Animation Masterclass, can test the super early prototype right now, if you are interested, send me a DM. After this is polished, and improved, will have unlimited image creations for 6 months, just to make it up for the delays in the training. -- Again pivoting from just creating another online course and instead create an online software that guides you to animate any AI Shortfilm step by step, I believe becomes much more powerful. We are also learning a lot in the freelance project we're doing for the video game FreeFire (disclaimer - this is not our trailer, this is from the game just for context), and all the process we do, for visualization, storyboarding, color grading, etc, is something we want to include in this online software. Right now it's still not ready for early testers but I plan to have something solid next week.
Exciting NEWS for AI ANIMATION MASTERCLASS - Image Generator Coming Soon!
1 like • May 14
@Mark Diaz this looks super cool! I'd like to test it too! ✨
2 likes • May 14
thanks Mark!
Animation Finished!
Took a long time, but now it's done, I am thinking of adding a bit more polishing to it because the artstyle jumps around between shots, and I am looking for ways to have the style consistent. But at least I finished something
2 likes • Mar 13
This animation is fantastic! @Mark Diaz, could you please list the course(s) that I can take to create this kind of work? I'm a software developer learning Cartoon Animator in my free time, with a little bit of knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator. Really appreciate all that I'm learning from you!
2 likes • Mar 13
@Mark Diaz thank you!
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