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Discipline of Busyness ▶️ --sref 821231852 3833165648

INSTINCT VS. DESIRE ❤️‍🔥 Part of us fully recognizes the danger. The other part wants to take a closer look. --sref 1371743592 3636550279 656721126

ELEGANCE requires self-control... MISCHIEF just needs an opportunity 😏 **Love this MJ sref for characters: --sref 2836856471

I love technology, and yet paradoxically, I have never placed a higher value on human sensitivity and empathy. --sref 1371743592 3636550279

I’m excited to introduce the first episode of my new series, “Out of the Frame”! 🎨✨ A series created entirely with @capcutapp, where some of the most iconic characters from the art world come to life when the museum closes its doors. 👀 I hope you enjoy this first episode 😊🍿

EXCESS 💎

The beautiful contradiction of knowing each other by heart, yet still finding ways to surprise one another ✨

EXCESS 💎 --sref 1397720772 1539610103

Cause & Effect 🌼

Don't let your perfection become an excuse for not getting started ✏️

Some palettes have a season 🍁 --sref 3010609543 2274555693 1357157080

DANGEROUS IN THEORY Some mistakes are a group effort.

Ordinary phrases, unexpectedly understood.

Ordinary things, unusually dressed.

Er Loop | My most ambitious AI short film. My take on Plato's Myth of Er, as a dark comedy. Written, directed, produced and scored entirely by me.

FEVER 🔥

INTENSE 🔥 How much contrast can an image withstand before it becomes unforgettable? --sref 2507293769 3682225657 4222427338

Good Manners 🥢

TALES OF GRIMWICKE — Chapter I is 22 minutes of AI fantasy animation inspired by the many anthropomorphic animal stories I read as a kid, with a dark twist: The model: Seedance 2.5 (@ByteDanceSeed_ ) via @Segmind_ai. 847 takes generated, mostly 30-second multi-shot prompts, over 5 hours of footage. 127 clips made the cut. About $4.5k in generation, four weeks from first take to publish. Characters and locations came out of @midjourney. Using MJ for the location plates was a revelation: the cinematography and art direction are a level above, and it renders far better as a plate than Nano Banana or GPT Image. Nano Banana (@GoogleDeepMind run on @fal) did the heavy lifting editing those plates, building anchor frames and turning MJ characters into turnaround sheets. Then I let Seedance do as much of the framing and camera operating as possible. That gave the best results. A lot of what I do in my Unreal Engine films came with me: a handheld, imperfect camera operator instead of smooth moves, focus hunting, and above all weather and atmospherics. The model does water, snow, smoke and rain really well, and leaning into that is what keeps it from looking like a Temu Pixar film. The tools I built: a portal (Node on @flydotio) that holds the bible, the refs, every prompt and every take, with a Claude agent (@claudeai) that writes the prompts to the house rules. A Premiere Pro (@AdobeVideo) panel that browses the archive, drops selects on the timeline, versions the project, strips music, and sends fixes back to Seedance. Everything is done in 720p with no upscaling, because it looks terrible. Narration is my own voice through @ElevenLabs speech-to-speech. Music from @Artlist_io. None of this would exist without @PJaccetturo and @Kavanthekid. Their narrative work, Nexus and Chronicles of Bone, proved long-form AI film was possible, and their podcasts, newsletters and X posts, updated constantly as the workflow changes under everyone's feet, showed how to actually do it. Chapter II is currently in the works and I will release it initially on my YouTube channel, The Darkest Age (@CharlieDriscollAI). Consider subscribing there to see it as soon as it drops!

The World survives on Invisible Work 😶‍🌫️