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Reference Images Are the New Prompt for AI Video
Seedance 2.5 takes 50 reference images and Veo 3.1 mixes three. The control surface for AI video is quietly moving from text to pictures.
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Notes from the AI filmmaking frontier
What's changing in AI video, how creators are actually using these tools, and the occasional deep dive into a technique worth stealing.
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Stop Prompting Motion. Act It Out Instead.
Performance-capture tools like Runway's Act-Two and Kling Motion Control let you direct AI actors by acting the scene yourself. When it wins.
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AI Video's Ten-Second Ceiling Is Starting to Break
For years AI clips maxed out near ten seconds, then got stitched. Seedance 2.5 claims 30 in one pass. The stitch-together workflow is on notice.
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AI Video Learned to Edit Footage, Not Just Make It
The fastest-moving AI video models this spring don't generate clips from scratch. They rewrite footage you already shot. Here's why that matters.
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Scorsese Storyboards With AI. That's the Real Story.
Martin Scorsese is using FLUX to storyboard his next film. AI's quiet foothold in cinema isn't final footage. It's pre-production.
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Stop Rolling the Dice: Directing Camera Moves in AI Video
Kling 3.0 and Runway now accept explicit camera and multi-shot direction. Here's how to direct AI video instead of gambling on a prompt.
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The Oscars Drew an AI Line. It's About Authorship, Not Tools
The Academy banned AI actors and AI scripts from winning Oscars. The rule isn't anti-AI. It's a bet on human authorship the whole industry will copy.
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How AI Filmmakers Actually Mix Runway, Kling, and Veo
Serious AI creators stopped picking sides. Here's how multi-model workflows split work across Runway, Kling, Veo, and Pika in 2026.
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Native Audio Just Closed the Post-Production Gap
Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 now generate dialogue, SFX, and ambient sound in the same pass as the visuals. Here's what that breaks in your workflow.
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Critterz Hits Cannes: A Real Test for AI-Native Animation
An AI-assisted animated feature is targeting a Cannes premiere this month, made in nine months for under $30M. Here's what it actually proves.
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How AI Filmmakers Actually Keep Characters Consistent Now
Image-to-video keyframes, reference banks, and Kling's new bind-subject mode have quietly replaced prayer as the workflow for character consistency.
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Promvie, Explained: What It Is, Who It's For, How It Works
A full tour of the AI filmmaking platform that turns a single sentence into a finished movie — the pipeline, the pricing, and why it works the way it does.
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Sora Goes Dark Sunday. Here's Where AI Video Actually Lives Now.
OpenAI's Sora consumer app shuts down April 26. What's actually replacing it, and why betting your workflow on any single AI video model is a losing move.
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