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jus won 1st place 🏆 at BytePlus ai filmmaking competition! Ade Nataleste Loh, Lionel Tan, hiroshi and i had 4 hours to make a micro-drama (短剧) episode entirely with ai. a few things I took away: 1. ai generated scripts are still pretty bad. the dialogue sounds like what ai thinks a hollywood movie should sound like. no one irl talks like that. we didn't have time to fix it so we kept it. 2. you still need a real editor. watching all the submissions, it was obvious who had an editor and who didn't. ai clips come out disjointed, so someone has to control the pacing. 3. scene coverage beats the perfect shot. the process is really: generate five clips, one is good. the more raw clips you have, the better. it's a whole different way of working and i'm still figuring this out. tools used: - script: claude - collaboration: Martini - video model: Seedance ByteDance huge thanks to gavin lim and Lorong AI for putting together this event!

"Cerrone" made with Martini IG https://lnkd.in/enWNrac

I directed a camera move from a single 2D image... ...in K-Drama style. The exact move... like holding a camera on a real set! Upload any image, and step into set. Add camera movement to any image. Link in the comments. #MadeWithMartini

I Stepped into set™ in-real-life. I've been doing lots of AI Filmmaking recently. But with Coval, I got to do some “real-life prompting.” It was a good reminder of what filmmaking is about. — A few reflections from shooting Coval’s Series A announcement film: 0. Real life gives you 4K real-time rendering with no context limits. In seriousness.. 1. AI filmmaking is a completely new medium, not just a cheaper version of traditional filmmaking. 2. (and because of that) Real-life production isn’t going anywhere. 3. The best AI filmmakers will still need the same core intuition as the best filmmakers: story, aesthetics, and craft 4. The mindset transfers. Lots of the technical skills don’t. Rigging a light and controlling a video model are very different skills. 5. AI filmmaking workflows are surprisingly as complex as traditional filmmaking — just in a completely different way. 6. The medium changes the output. Because we shot this in real life, the Coval team’s camaraderie, creativity, and performances became part of the film. If I had prompted the whole thing alone, none of that would have happened. Brooke and her team created this film together. It was "real-time collaborative prompting". 7. (With that said...) AI filmmaking is exciting for auteurs because... you can do it all yourself if you want to 8. (And with all that said) I’m more convinced than ever that the best AI filmmaking software will be built by people who understand filmmaking, visual storytelling, and the strange magic of production. Thanks to Brooke and the Coval team for letting me bring this one to life — and to the wonderful SF film crew who jumped on this shoot last minute (truly wonderful people). It's always nice to get a mid-day exercise carrying a camera :) BTS Footage by Jane Z.

No application, no judges, no prizes, not even food. Last Saturday, Varick Lim and 🥬Sharon Li hosted the Singapore AI Video Jam session. “Sorry everyone, just a reminder that there is no food provided,” Varick announced apologetically. I could tell he was worried people might not come back after leaving for lunch. His worry was unwarranted. You could feel it: this event was a little different. Everyone was so motivated. Everyone came back. In fact, I think some people didn’t even leave. They just skipped lunch and kept creating. And what a range of participants: a father-and-child duo, a university lecturer, a smart manufacturing consultant, and many people who were mostly non-technical. There were varying levels of AI proficiency and filmmaking experience, but everyone brought curiosity, energy, and their own perspective. It was honestly amazing to see everyone’s work! Thank you all for using Martini!

"when was the last time you told a story?" a few weeks ago, 🥬Sharon and i came up with the same idea at the same time: what if we put people in a room and just let them make AI videos? kinda like a hackathon, but for storytelling. i'd wanted a space like that for a while. most AI creators i know make things alone. there isn't really a community for it in singapore. so after a year of attending other people's events and feeling quietly inspired, i decided to host my first ever event with sharon. we posted it on luma, and people actually showed up! it was a cozy room of 20 folks, who stayed the whole 6 hours turning their ideas into reality. by the end, it felt like show-and-tell. grown-ups holding up the thing they made, feeling a little shy, a little proud. i genuinely believe that everyone has a unique story to tell. and despite its many flaws, AI makes this much more accessible. this post is a thank-you to: - Martini for supporting this event, even when our crowd may not have been your target users - 🥬Sharon Li for having the same idea and building it with me - SQ Collective for the space - and everyone who showed up and made something, you're the reason it worked! (i'll share the final videos in another post)

A month later, we’re still buzzing from the DIS: PLAY x FLORA Creative Tech Summit at Cornell Tech part of NYC Design Week. On May 13, DIS: PLAY brought together creative directors, designers, founders, artists, technologists, filmmakers, music professionals, product builders, educators, students, and creative studios for a full-day gathering exploring the intersection of creativity, technology, entrepreneurship, and emerging AI tools. From portfolio reviews and studio networking to hands-on workshops, startup demos, keynotes, panel conversations, rapid-fire showcases, and an afterparty, DIS:PLAY created space for people across disciplines to ask one shared question: What does creative work look like when technology becomes part of the medium? Throughout the day, we explored AI as a creative material, vibe coding as a new way to prototype ideas, AI filmmaking from prompt to final cut, creative careers that do not fit into one lane, taste and authorship in a shifting platform landscape, and what music creation looks like when tools begin to collaborate with artists. A huge thank you to all of our speakers, panelists, studio guests, startup presenters, and creative partners who made this day possible: Sasha Zabegalin from FLORA | Mori Liu | Yutao Han (Tao Prompts) | Timothy Wang from Ponder| Merida Hou from Infron | Louis Moncouyoux and Bart Baker-Jaillet from SavoirFaire | Joe Mango and Anzhelika Nastashchuk from Code and Theory | Eric Forman from Eric Forman Studio | Jocelynn Leigh-Cabrera from ArtBound Initiative| Khurram Kalimi | Limber Zhang | Nuoran Chen | Izaac Crayton | Yi Chen | Raj Muhar | Christopher Brignola | Koh Terai | Britney N. | Hanyong Yang | Juliette Rolnick | Polina Ivko | Jessica G. | Sofi Chernyak | Professor Mukti K. | William J Leon | Michelle Hui We are also deeply grateful to our sponsors and partners for supporting the summit and helping us bring this experience to life: our exclusive brand partner FLORA, as well as Martini, Kling AI, Notion, Chance AI, EPIC Connector, and Cornell Tech! And finally, a special thank you to the DIS:PLAY organizing team and volunteers who made the day possible behind the scenes: Cecilia Yiyue Chen (Head Organizer) | Jaclyn Pham (Head Organizer) Kim Dang (Operations Lead) | Soumya D. (Music x Tech Lead) | Yi Lu (Design x Tech Lead) | Ruolan Chen (Film x Tech Lead) | Wendy Hong (Chance AI Partner) DIS: PLAY Creative Tech Summit was built around one belief: The future of creativity will not belong to one discipline. It will be shaped by people who can move across tools, industries, mediums, and identities, while still making work that feels human. Thank you to everyone who joined us. We’re excited to keep building this community at the intersection of creativity, technology, and human expression.