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! 🙌

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

So ByteDance (the TikTok parent company) just dropped Seedance 2.0, and the AI video landscape basically changed overnight. We're talking native audio generation, lipsynced speech, 2K resolution, and quality that makes Google's Veo 3.1 and OpenAI's Sora 2 look like they're running on a flip phone. One creator made a full 2-minute cinematic fight scene for $60. Another generated a photorealistic LeBron James dunk that's genuinely hard to tell from broadcast footage. Chinese filmmakers are already producing entire short films from scripts, complete with VFX, voice acting, and editing.

This tool lets you instantly create a 3D Environment from a 2D Image. The best part is that you can start for FREE, I created that 3D Environment for my Action Scene for free. If you would like to test it, you can check it out in this here: https://marble.worldlabs.ai/ And the cool thing is that when you create a 3D Environment, you can share it! Here is mine: https://marble.worldlabs.ai/world/df5d402d-5dca-49d5-bc27-b9de0eb2c032 - Use the arrow keys to move around the scene (forward, backward, sideways) - Use Click and Drag to turn the camera around You can create up to 4 environments for FREE, and after that, you need to pay $20 a month. A really powerful tool for creating 3D Environments fast, for perfect background consistency (for advanced cinematography)

This is the approach that I would do for more advanced cinematography and action. Just create rough recordings and recreate that either in animation or with high-budget effects. This is an ad I saw on Facebook. Many AI tools allow you to do this. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Tc3NGjVcS/?mibextid=wwXIfr For those who don't have Facebook, I'm also including this video recording of my screen.