I created the entire action sequence first as a 3D previs using a Clay Render — focusing purely on choreography, camera movement, timing, composition, and scene continuity. No textures. No polished lighting. No distractions. Just the core mechanics of the scene. For action sequences, I find this approach especially useful: if the scene already feels cinematic in a simple clay render, the final visuals only make it stronger. Previs → Clay Render → Final Visual Sedance 2.0.

I created multiple AI-generated tsunami VFX shots to test the limits of AI video generation.

This project explores how AI can create realistic military environments, characters, battlefield atmosphere, camera movement and cinematic storytelling.

I’ve been using Grok to produce all the video content on a new YouTube channel over the last 2 months. There’s some major trade offs using Grok over Seedance, one big one is while we do a have a reference system finally it’s still much harder to maintain full continuity and detail consistency scene to scene but it’s getting much better. The other massive trade off is cost. This 13 min episode was created for $40 all in using Seedream 5.0 Pro for start frames and Grok Imagine in app for all the video generation. In contrast this episode would have cost at least $600-$700 to produce using Seedance 2.0 and possible much more depending of the fail rate of generations. There’s no question the production quality, AI actor performance and over all consistency is much better with Seedance but considering the cost difference Grok is a great alternative especially when you’re creating content for an un monetized channel. While this episode is far from perfect and has many small continuity issues hopefully they’re small enough to slide by un-noticed by most in a single watch. Grok still isn’t there yet for professional level work unless you’re delivering 720p content for social media but what do you guys think of Grok vs. Seedance considering the massive cost difference? https://youtu.be/z7wphLCpnOs?si=TPbWOB4QF94IIWAE

I went with a new format for the Behold_Earth social media promo this week. Let me know what you think ✌️ https://youtube.com/shorts/Q9U19z_cbHQ