Using AI tools to make a film in an original science-fiction universe.
Blender Overpainting vs Direct Rendering in Blender
Overpainting a Blender render with a video model gave me less control than I had hoped, so I tried doing the big space shots entirely in Blender.
How a Blender Blockout Works
A short look at how a scene gets blocked out in Blender, with scratch dialogue, capsule actors and one camera per shot, before any video model is asked to paint it.
Cold Open - Rough Cut (Spoilers!)
A first rough cut of the cold open, three hundred years before the main story, inside the Purple Tube on the day it died.
New Title, Music, and Turnarounds.
The film got its real title today, and I spent the rest of the day writing and recording the song it comes from.
Matsana and the Letter
A full day of screenplay work, weaving Matsana deeper into the story and turning montages into real scenes.
The First Commit
Getting the initial screenplay, characters, and terminology into a repo for the first time.
The First Assets
What is OpenArt exactly?
The First Screen Test
Trying out this new-fangled AI movie-making thingummy.
The First Screenplay
Can Claude turn my bad story into a screenplay?
The First Draft
Writing down the basic story and backstory.