I started writing a novel long ago and enjoyed it, but didn't finish it - yet-. Let's see what happens when it becomes a video. I started with this scene because I could figure out how to do it :)

Galaxy AI has become https://magica.com/free-credits The new reset time for me is Midnight Eastern Time, instead of 8 pm.

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.

I did start working on the shots for the storyboard and I found Nano Banana 2 suddenly started producing different results. Same seed and everything from the previous session as it was saved, but a different output, now with some background changes. 🤦‍♂️ They must have changed something again. So I decided to go through and build more controlable tools to stablize my workflow. I've already got a tool to fix up the Marble images, but I noticed their screenshots come out in a weird 1598x910 resolution, NEARLY 16/9 but not quite. It does not care if you are running on a 21:9 monitor or running fullscreen either, you're still getting that output. So I built a simple tool to take those images and match them to the Nano Banana 2 2MP sizing, which is an equally weird 2752x1536 (actually this is really 4MP 🤷‍♂️) and I'm standardizing everything on that for now. That was a quick one. The mask tool workflow I built last week worked quite well but I found myself going out to other image editors to tweak, which is fine, I'll still use it where it makes sense. NB2 still follows the prompts for character positioning and retains the best likeness compared to Flux 2 Klein. I tried cutting NB2 out of the loop but can't get there right now with Klein so I'm doing the characters seperately in NB2 then popping them into my compositor. The compositor has a load more elements off to the side but the screenshot would be silly looking so here I've lumped the staged outputs into one window. With this I can add characters (or props I suppose), size and position them against the background then when I'm happy with the screenspace composition I activate the second part of the workflow and it sinks them into the scene adding lighting and shadows where appropriate. Left is traditional image editing part, the right is the re-lit output.

Is anyone else going absolutely crazy with the new Galaxy (excuse me... Magica) interface? Instead of just letting you choose your model, such as my go-to-model Kling 2.6 Pro, it brings up a Claude conversation... "It seems that the user wants to use Kling 2.6 Pro. Thinking... Thinking... It appears that this model is not available at this time. May I help you in any other way?" AND... All of my assets are GONE. Generated videos. Generated images. Uploads. Character style sheets. Everything. GONE. Then, after I had some tense conversations with Claude about how to use the horrible new interface, it DEDUCTED CREDITS for my conversation!!! Unbelievable.